'The Croods' and 'Olympus Has Fallen' Lead the Box Office

There is a long and undistinguished tradition of comic-strips and films set in prehistoric times, including Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit in Knockout during the 1940s, The Flintstones on TV in the 1960s, the dire 1981 Hollywood feature film Caveman

The makers of the animated Vikings comedy How to Train Your Dragon have come up with an animated caveman comedy that might as well be titled How to Train Your Father. Instead, they've called it The Croods, and centered it on a cavegirl named Eep

"The Croods" evokes the Flintstones but quickly surpass it in ambitiousness and quality, what with all the parallels to modern families.

6. Spring Breakers (A24): $5 million in 1,104 theaters. Hey, to everyone saying Spring Breakers failed once it went wide: it has the third highest per screen average in the country right now. Only The Croods and Olympus did better. Wait until it goes

“The Croods,” about a prehistoric family's road trip, took in an estimated $44.7 million over the weekend, easily enough for No. 1, while “Olympus Has Fallen” took in a stronger-than-expected $30.5 million, for second place. Even “Spring Breakers