Director of the movie Jon Favreau (R) poses with cast members (L-R) Ritesh Rajan, Giancarlo Esposito, Lupita Nyong’o, Neel Sethi and Ben Kingsley at the premiere of “The Jungle Book” at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California April 4, 2016.
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Keanu, the feature debut for comics Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele, fell into third place by a cat’s nose with $9.35 million for its debut weekend. The Jungle Book retained the top spot for the third straight week grossing $42.4 million, which brings its total gross to over $250 million. As a result, the movie has boasted unusually strong legs, declining just 40 percent its second weekend and just 31 percent this weekend. Key & Peele’s R-rated goofball comedy ‘Keanu’ claimed $9.3 million from almost 2,700 screens. It cost about US$15 million to make. Actually, Keanu, Mother’s Day, and Ratchet & Clank didn’t even match Disney’s giant when combining their three weekend totals. ‘Mother’s Day, ‘ $8.3 million ($2.1 million international). 5. That was a whisker behind ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War, ‘ which limped its way to $9.4 million in its second disappointing week of release.
Mother’s Day, which stars Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson each in mother-themed stories, took fourth place with $8.3 million. The movie fell just short of Avengers: Age of Ultron’s $202 million global debut, and it’s expected to take in between $175 million to $200 million during its domestic opening weekend.
“There’s no way around it: These three films flopped in their opening weekends”, Bock says.
Once it lands Stateside, Disney will have accounted for three of the top five movies of the year, along with The Jungle Book and Zootopia. Most recently he subjected audiences to two unnecessary pieces of holiday drivel, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
Dropping to fifth place is “Barbershop: The Next Cut” taking in $6.1 million over the weekend. The critically-adored family flick records the seventh best third weekend ever, beating Zootopia’s third weekend when it earned $37.2 million and Age of Ultron’s $38.9 million, and just missingThe Dark Knight’s $42.7 million.
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Superhero Hype is reporting that the new Marvel flick opened internationally and brought in an estimated $200.2 million from 37 territories (63 percent of the worldwide market).
