According to Bloomberg, the animated Angry Birds movie has already “slingshot” its way past Captain America and his crew, making around $39 million in the US and Canada this weekend.
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The PG-13 rated Captain America: Civil War was not too far behind, earning an additional $33.1m for a second-place spot, which brings its domestic total to $347.4m. Perhaps this is one that should have waited until after the summer to be released. Still, Angry Birds had a smaller opening weekend than Kung Fu Panda 3, according to Entgroup.
“Rovio and Sony Imageworks were able to translate video game characters into a globally branded film, which was a major challenge”, he added.
Worldwide, Angry Birds (which features the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph), earned an estimated $94 million this weekend, bringing its total to $150 million. Sony, working hard to move beyond a prolonged box-office rough patch, distributed “Angry Birds” in return for a 7 percent slice of ticket sales.
Watch a film clip from “The Nice Guys”, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Despite these huge numbers, the superhero adventure couldn’t pull off a third straight win in theaters, going up against Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie, Universal’s Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and Warner Bros.’ The Nice Guys.
Year-to-date is $4.24 billion, including the current overall weekend of $136.5 million.
With all the glitz, glam and humor, Neighbours 2 has placed third this week, with US$21.7 million. The Jungle Book, meanwhile, dropped from second place last week to fifth this week with $11 million.
Internationally, “X-Men: Apocalypse” debuted with an estimated $103.3 million.
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Disney is continuing to have a great year at the movies as it now has three films in the top 10. Deadline, which supplied the box office figures, said the animated film could make between $38.8 million and $39.5 million for the entire weekend, once Sunday’s figures come in.
