Box Office Week: The Angry Birds Movie takes #1 with $39 mil, Neighbors 2 underperforms (#3, $21.7 mil), and The Nice Guys flops (#4, $11.7 mil). Meanwhile Captain America: Civil War passes $1 bil and X-Men Apocalypse makes $103.3 mil in overseas opening.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	The Angry Birds Movie	$39,000,000	$151,000,000	1
2	Captain America: Civil War	$33,114,000	$1,053,490,153	3
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$21,790,000	$51,790,000	1
4	The Nice Guys	$11,270,000	$12,920,000	1
5	The Jungle Book	$11,017,000	$857,697,565	6

Notable Box Office Stories:

• The Angry Birds Movie came in slightly under expectations but still managed to blow away similar video game peers opening with $39 mil at #1. While that is a somewhat middle of the road opening for a highly marketed animated film, Angry Birds still managed to have the second best opening weekend for a video game film adaptation (only under Lara Croft: Tomb Raider's $47.7 mil opening). Internationally the film is performing well, passing $100 mil on its second week of international release. Comparing it to its animated peers, it's likely Birds will have a similar lifespan to The Good Dinosaur, which also opened to $39 mil and ended its run around $123 mil domestic. However Angry Birds cost almost 3 times less than Dinosaur so already it's justifying its cost compared to Pixar's first market loser. At a B+ Cinemascore the film will likely not have the staying power of a Zootopia, especially in a month when Finding Dory takes away all of its audience.

• Comedy sequels continue to be the most unpredictable players in the game as Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising underwhelmed, opening 55% lower than its predecessor coming in #3 with $21.7 mil. The initial film was a runaway R-rated comedy success, earning over $250 mil worldwide but it doesn't seem the sequel will see the same numbers despite a fairly similar critical and audience response. In foreign numbers the film has grosses $30 mil and it looks like the film will end it's run around $100 mil worldwide. While these numbers are pretty solid for a $35 mil, R-rated comedy it definitely didn't capture the big success of the original and may not necessitate Neighbors 3: Senior Home Meltdown.

• If there was ever proof of how much summer movies have changed, look no further than The Nice Guys. 20 years ago a Joel Silver produced buddy crime film written by Shane Black was a license to print money, but these days the film came into a very low $11.7 mil at #4. Despite the film receiving very positive reviews from critics, an aggressive social media and marketing campaign, and two well liked leads, the film barely surpassed tracking at $10 mil. The R-rated action comedy had a decent mid-range budget ($50 mil) which will be hard to make back if the film doesn't find extremely strong footing in foreign markets. Also while critics (and Reddit) love the film, major audiences don't as evidenced by its B- Cinemascore. That will likely mean the film will quickly shuffle out of theaters and barely make $30 mil domestic by the end of this run. A lot could be blamed for this (not a summer movie, R-rating, appealing to older crowds) but ultimately I think it's just that the industry and audiences have passed this kind of film by. The older crowds it appeals to don't go to the theater much and tend to find films like it later on streaming and wonder "why did this bomb?"

• While Angry Birds did push Captain America: Civil War out of the number 1 spot, it didn't stop the film from becoming the first film of 2016 to pass $1 bil. As mentioned before the film helped push the MCU past $10 billion profits for the entire franchise so it's safe to say superhero fatigue is in the mind of the critic more than the audience. Next week we'll see the first competition for Civil War with X-Men: Apocalypse but clearly Civil War has taken all the money it needs by this point.

• Internationally X-Men: Apocalypse opened about as well as X-Men: Days of Future past did in 2014, opening to $103.3 mil. Despite fairly negative reviews, the film still managed to open extremely strong in certain markets and still has China to contend with. Apocalypse will likely have the same $200 mil domestic lifespan that every other X-Men film had so it's international numbers will be extremely important to the future of the franchise as Days of Future Past was the first X-Men film to make over $500 mil internationally pushing it well past the other films to the be the number 1 grossing X-Men film (until Deadpool).

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	$936,540,076	$2,066,397,076	23
The Revenant	$183,631,238	$531,611,117	23
Deadpool	$362,718,174	$763,091,444	15
Zootopia	$334,403,528	$981,803,528	12
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	$328,417,019	$870,217,019	9

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip	$85,886,987	$234,714,725	$90,000,000
Everybody Wants Some!!	$3,400,278	$3,659,769	$10,000,000

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

Submitted May 23, 2016 at 10:33PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/1XNjvKx