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Disney Animation lands biggest ever opening with Zootopia
The animated Disney flick “Zootopia” just had a stunning weekend in the box office, taking in $73.7 million domestically while bringing its total worldwide ticket sales to $232.5 million since opening three weeks ago. That’s better than the previous best-selling feature cartoon from Disney, 2013’s “Frozen” and its 67.4 million dollars opening weekend, according to the movie box office watcher website comScore.
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Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman lent their voices to the PG-rated animated adventure, and Zootopia has been universally praised by critics for its messages about prejudice and tolerance, earning a 98 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. London Has Fallen is the follow-up to Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen.
Not only a box office success, Zootopia is riding on a wave of critical success as well, with glowing reviews from critics and an A on CinemaScore. The actress’ “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” stumbled with a $7.6 million launch from 2,374 venues.
“Zootopia” also brought in $63.4 million internationally, where it is in its fourth weekend. The main cast returned for the film, including Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, which cost a reported $60 million to make. That does, however, trail the first film’s $30 million debut.
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The final new release of the week was Paramount’s “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” about an American journalist who looks for more fulfilling assignments in the war zones of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and gets more than she bargained for. The Tom McCarthy film is still the second lowest grossing Best Picture victor ever behind last year’s victor, “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”, which both star Michael Keaton. “Risen”, $3.9 million.” 7.”Kung Fu Panda 3″, $3.5 million ($3.1 million international). 8. $3.5 million and $2.1 million, respectively. Deadpool dropped to third place, adding $16 million to its now $311 million domestic total. The story of The Boston Globe’s investigation into the Catholic Church has made $41.6 million.to date.