The Jungle Book which started playing one week earlier in some foreign countries, brought in $136.1 million overseas, earning a world-wide gross of $239.7 million.
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Maybe a big part of The Jungle Book coming out as a big victor in ticket sales is that it won over the audience, being rated as 95 percent “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.
Disney has achieved success of late with transforming its classic cartoons into live-action remakes, including Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty makeover Maleficent. Unaffected by its contemporary, the film blossomed at the box office even during the weekend. “Disney has this knack for taking something that’s very old and making it new again”.
“There’s some consistency that’s happened here in the last few years as we’ve really made this a priority and a strategy from a company perspective”, Disney’s Hollis says while crediting production president Sean Bailey with overseeing the live-action adaptations.
Other movies that had their April opening this year, include another Disney movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, starring Ice Cube and Regina Hall. The Melissa McCarthy starrer “The Boss”, which took the box office cake last weekend, came down two spots with $10.7 million. “The cast was tremendous and it just looked like fun”.Disney’s animated Zootopia rounded out the weekend’s top 5 with $8.2 million in its seventh weekend and passed the $300 million mark to $307.5 million. The Millennium Pictures action-thriller, which cost $100 million to make, earned $60.7 million in North America.
Batman v. Superman, featuring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill as the iconic superheroes, was in fourth place, grossing $9 million for an overall take of $311.3 million after four weeks. So, too, is Miracles from Heaven, but in a much more concrete sense; with an estimated $1.9 million weekend, it held up well with $56.9 million over a $13 million budget.
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Unexpectedly, the movie has managed to snag a stellar $103.6 million.
