People finally went back to the movies — or, rather, a movie. Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful earned $80.3 million at the North American box office, according to the preliminary estimate of its relieved sponsors at Disney. The 3-D, PG-rated prequel to the 1939 MGM classic musical The Wizard of Oz dominated the weekend, accounting for 58% of the total domestic revenue. The year’s first blockbuster provided a crucial infusion of cash after six weeks of lagging ticket sales, when Hollywood might have been offering customers root-canal surgery instead of big-screen ... Read More