Jennifer Lopez Is The Back-Up Plan

Star's new comedy takes second to How to Train Your Dragon at weekend box office

Jennifer Lopez wasn't the first choice of most weekend moviegoers.

The star's The Back-Up Plan grossed a not great but not unexpected $12.3 million, per box office estimates, and settled for second behind the sturdy How to Train Your Dragon ($15 million).

Elsewhere, The Losers looked lost, while Jennifer Aniston left—and joined—the Top 10. More results:

• The Back-Up Plan is Lopez's first major release in five years. The reputedly $35 million romantic comedy opened more like this year's When in Rome than her 2005 hit, Monster-in-Law.

• How to Train Your Dragon was projected as last weekend's surprise winner. But final numbers gave the gold medal to Kick-Ass. This time out, the race isn't close, and its No. 1 finish isn't a shock. The 3-D fantasy returns to the top spot for the first time in four weeks.

• After what was considered a so-so start, Dragon is the second-highest-grossing movie of the year to date, with $178 million domestically.

• Kick-Ass ($9.5 million) fell four spots, to fifth place. Still, the unsuperhero comedy performed well midweek, and upped its domestic total a budget-besting $34.9 million.

• After a fourth-place debut, the $25 million, comic-spawned The Losers ($9.6 million) better be hoping it's got some Kick-Ass spunk. 

• Aniston's and Gerard Butler's The Bounty Hunter ($1.6 million) fell from the weekend Top 10, but with $62.8 million overall, moved into the yearly Top 10.

• Disney's nature movie Oceans was, pound for pound, the Top 10's biggest movie, grossing $6 million from 1,206 theaters. 

Here's a rundown of the weekend's top-grossing films Friday-Sunday, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

1. How to Train Your Dragon, $15 million
2. The Back-Up Plan, $12.3 million
3. Date Night, $10.6 million
4. The Losers, $9.6 million
5. Kick-Ass, $9.5 million
6. Clash of the Titans, $9 million
7. Death at a Funeral, $8 million
8. Oceans, $6 million
9. The Last Song, $3.7 million
10. Alice in Wonderland, $2.2 million

(Originally published April 25, 2010, at 10:21 a.m. PT)