Weekend Box Office

'Jungle Book' Repeats, 'Huntsman' Falls On His Axe and 'Zootopia' Tops $900M Worldwide by Brad Brevet April 24, 2016 The Jungle Book remained in first place in its second weekend by a large margin over the weekend runner up as it tripled the opening weekend for Universal's The Huntsman: Winter's War. Meanwhile, Pantelion's Compadres finished among the weekend top ten while Roadside's release of A Hologram for the King finds itself in a battle for tenth position. With an estimated $60.8 million, Disney's The Jungle Book dropped only 41.1%, the fourth smallest second weekend drop for a film that opened over $100 million as its domestic cume now climbs to over $191 million. Internationally the film took in an additional $96 million this weekend as its global take is now over $528 million,fifth largest for the year so far. In second place, Universal's prequel The Huntsman: Winter's War struggled out of the gate. With an estimated$20 million it brought in only 36% of the opening weekend total of its 2012 predecessor Snow White and the Huntsman. From an audience standpoint, Winter's War played 61% female vs. 39% male and 47% of the overall audience was over the age of 30. Comparatively, Snow White and the Huntsman played much more evenly across gender lines as 53% of its audience was female. From here it's likely to struggle to reach an overall domestic cume around $55-60 million on a reported budget of $115 million. Overseas, the film began playing internationally two weeks ago and entered the weekend having already banked $48.1 million from 27 territories. Winter's War expanded into an additional 37 territories this weekend and grossed an estimated $32.1 million as its worldwide total currently sits at $100.2 million. The best holdover in the top ten belongs to Disney's Zootopia, which went from its worst weekend-to-weekend hold last week (43.2%) to its best this weekend. Dropping only 18.8% the animated hit brought in an estimated$6.6 million as its domestic cume now sits at $316.4 million. Internationally it added another $10.8 million as its worldwide total is now over $907 million, positioned in 37th place all-time just behind Shrek 2 ($919.8m). Speaking of best weekend holdovers, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice enjoyed its smallest drop yet, dipping only 38.9% in its fifth weekend, bringing in an estimated $5.5 million. Internationally the film added another $8.3 million as its global cume is now over $850 million. Moving further down the chart we come to two of the weekend's new moderate releases beginning with Lionsgate and Pantelion's Compadres, which brought in an estimated $1.35 million from 368 theaters. Just behind it, and in a battle for tenth position with Eye in the Sky, was Roadside's A Hologram for the King starring Tom Hanks, which finished the three-day with an estimated $1.2 million from 401 locations. These were just two of the weekend's moderate releases as Bleecker Street also released Amazon Studios' Elvis & Nixon into 381 theaters were it brought in $456,793. Additionally, Sony Classics expanded Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead from 47 theaters last weekend into 527 theaters this weekend where it brought in an estimated$686,655. When it comes to per theater averages, The Jungle Book was this weekend's champ, hauling in over $15,000 per theater. A24's Green Room served as runner-up, bringing in an estimated $215,000 from 30 theaters for a $7,167 per theater average. In limited release Sony Classics' The Meddler starring Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J.K. Simmons brought in $15,067 from four theaters. Additionally, IFC's Tale of Tales brought in $9,000 from two theaters;Josh Fox's How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can't Change earned an estimated$6,750 from one theater; and Drafthouse released Men & Chicken into two theaters where it brought in an estimated $2,565. The biggest dipper of the weekend was STX's Hardcore Henry, which comes as no surprise as the film was yanked from 2,496 theaters resulting in a 78.8% third weekend drop. The theater drop was actually the second largest, third weekend theater drop of all-time behind only Meet Dave. Next weekend is our final weekend before the summer movie season kicks off with Captain America: Civil War on May 6, and three new films will be leading the charge. Warner Bros. will release the kidnapped cat comedy Keanu into 2,600+ theaters while Open Road and Focus will release Mother's Day and Ratchet & Clank respectively, playing approximately 2,800 theaters each. April 22-24, 2016 Weekend Standard Chart   <<Last Weekend <Last Year View Index: By Year | By Weekend TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count /Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 1 The Jungle Book (2016) BV $60,803,000 -41.1% 4,028 - $15,095 $191,477,426 $175 2 2 N The Huntsman: Winter's War Uni. $20,080,000 - 3,791 - $5,297 $20,080,000 $115 1 3 2 Barbershop: The Next Cut WB $10,830,000 -46.5% 2,676 +15 $4,047 $36,031,492 - 2 4 5 Zootopia BV $6,611,000 -18.8% 2,798 -411 $2,363 $316,435,606 - 8 5 3 The Boss Uni. $6,080,000 -38.9% 3,375 -120 $1,801 $49,508,205 $29 3 6 4 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice WB $5,520,000 -38.9% 3,066 -439 $1,800 $319,501,603 $250 5 7 6 Criminal (2016) LG/S $3,100,000 -46.2% 2,683 - $1,155 $10,864,486 - 2 8 7 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Uni. $2,100,000 -35.6% 1,749 -548 $1,201 $55,374,740 - 5 9 N Compadres PNT $1,350,000 - 368 - $3,668 $1,350,000 - 1 10 10 Eye in the Sky BST $1,214,963 -21.8% 838 -53 $1,450 $14,967,114 - 7