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The great box office drought has finally ended, thanks to the eye-catching special effects of ''The Matrix.'' The Keanu Reeves CGI-a-go-go pulled in an estimated $27.2 million over the three-day weekend (for a total of $37.7 million since it opened on Wednesday), vaporizing the previous Easter record set in 1993 by ''Indecent Proposal'' ($18.4 million), not to mention qualifying as the highest April opening ever.
The white-hot flashes from the explosions in ''The Matrix'' eclipsed everything else at the box office; the gap between ''The Matrix'' and the other new films was nearly $20 million. The teen Shakespeare update ''10 Things I Hate About You'' landed in second place with $8.7 million, and ''The Out-of-Towners'' came in third with $8.1 million. Meanwhile, holdovers ''Analyze This'' and ''Forces of Nature'' continue to cling to the top 5, tying with $6.3 million. ''The Mod Squad,'' however, continues to plummet, placing tenth in its second weekend with only $2.4 million. Perhaps they should have called it ''The Bomb Squad.''
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