Box Office Week: Jungle Book had another great weekend, coming again at #1 with $60.8 mil. Meanwhile The Huntsman: Winter's War opened 60% lower than it's predecessor with $20 mil at #2. Also Zootopia passes $900 mil worldwide and Hardcore Henry has second biggest theater drop in history.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	The Jungle Book	$60,803,000	$532,777,426	2
2	The Huntsman: Winter's War	$20,080,000	$100,280,000	1
3	Barbershop: The Next Cut	$10,830,000	$35,761,492	2
4	Zootopia	$6,611,000	$908,535,606	8
5	The Boss	$6,080,000	$57,708,205	3

Notable Box Office Stories:

• While I was out last week the story remains the same as as once again The Jungle Book dominated the box office on it's second week, bringing it $60.8 mil at #1. The live-action remake had one of the lowest drops ever for a $100 mil+ opening (41%) and with it's A rating on Cinemascore will likely stay within the the top five for weeks to come. In terms of other Disney live-action remakes the film is tracking about as well as 2010's Alice and Wonderland which notably went on to make over $300 mil domestic and over $1 bil worldwide. Jungle Book could continue in that same path, as the film has already grossed over $300 mil in foreign totals, including a sizeable $68 mil opening in China. This marks an insanely good Spring for Disney which is still seeing Zootopia in the top five (see below), another live-action remake success, and will dominate the next few weeks with the opening of Captain America: Civil War.

• Once again it seems like unless your film has the phrase "big fat greek" in it, the long awaited follow-up film might be a bad idea as The Huntsman: Winter's War became the latest victim. The $110 mil Kristen Stewart free prequel to the 2010 Kristin Stewart led Snow White & The Huntsman either came too late or too K Stew free because it opened only to $20 mil at #2 (the original opened with $56 mil). While Jungle Book was clearly going to win the weekend, but there was still no excuse for such a low turnout to the film, especially in the prime 18-25 market it was going for, as a majority of the audience were females over the age of 30. The film is doing slightly better overseas where it opened two weeks ago, pulling in $80 mil so far and doing reasonably well in Mexico, the UK, and Australia. However the film will not come anywhere close to it's predecessor's $396 mil worldwide take and will struggle coming up against flashier summer fare.

• Disney may be looking at three major releases in the top five next week as Zootopia still hasn't dropped out of the race in its 8th week. The film came in #4 with $6.6 mil which was enough to push the film past $900 mil and into the top ten highest grossing animated films of all time domestic. The film finally opened in Japan so by next weekend we'll see if Japanese audiences will be enough to push the film past $1 bil.

• If you were planning on seeing Hardcore Henry you may have to wait till it's on video as the film was throughly booted out of theaters this weekend. Bit of an explanation, theater drops start on the 3rd weekend of release as most wide release films are required to be shown in theaters for a minimum of two weeks no matter how bad they are earning. On the third Friday theaters are then allowed to drop or add however many screens they want. Well by this Thursday Hardcore Henry was performing at an abysmal $43 per theater average so the POV action film was dropped from almost 2,500 screens. That's the second biggest theater drop-off in history beating other massive flops like Jonah Hex and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, only coming under Meet Dave by a few screens. So far the film has earned $11.1 mil worldwide and seems unlikely to pass $20 mil when all is said and done.

Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$935,910,912	$2,065,703,912	19
The Hateful Eight	$54,114,372	$155,645,139	18
The Revenant	$183,407,381	$522,837,095	18
Deadpool	$361,136,943	$760,234,949	11

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Spectre	$200,074,609	$880,674,609	$245,000,000
The Big Short	$70,259,870	$132,950,761	$28,000,000
Daddy's Home	$150,357,137	$240,360,392	$50,000,000
Hail, Caesar!	$30,080,225	$61,890,262	$22,000,000
Ride Along 2	$90,862,685	$122,623,465	$40,000,000
The Brothers Grimsby	$6,874,837	$26,989,054	$35,000,000
Triple 9	$12,639,297	$20,358,343	$20,000,000
How to Be Single	$46,843,513	$105,743,513	$38,000,000
The Young Messiah	$6,469,813	$7,155,967	$18,500,000
Race (2016)	$19,115,191	$21,418,965	$5,000,000

As always /r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.

Submitted April 26, 2016 at 12:13AM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/1T0aOGu