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Wkd BO 0415-1716 - Boy raised by wolves attacks as Bats & Supes look on... helpless

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95% The Jungle Book (2016)
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92% Barbershop: The Next Cut
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19% The Boss
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28% Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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98% Zootopia
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25% Criminal (2016)

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‘Jungle Book’ Opens to Smashing $103.6 Million

“The Jungle Book” dominated the weekend box office, grossing a massive $103.6 million, and extending the Walt Disney Company’s success in making live action versions of its classic animated features.

That ranks as the second biggest April opening in history, behind only “Furious 7’s” $147.2 million launch. With “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Maleficent,” and now “The Jungle Book,” this strategy of revitalizing fairy tales has become a virtual brand onto itself. One that nearly rivals Disney’s Marvel, Pixar, and LucasFilm projects. The studio will continue to mine its library; “Beauty and the Beast” with Emma Watson hits theaters on March 17, 2017, and new versions of “Cruella De Ville” and “Peter Pan” are in the works.

Critics loved “The Jungle Book” handing it a 95% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Word-of-mouth for the film also looks strong. The picture received an A CinemaScore, which could set it up for a healthy run in the days and weeks ahead. Families made up 49% if the opening weekend audience. The film performed well in Imax, earning $10.4 million, and 43% of its domestic opening weekend gross came on 3D screens.

Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”) directed the $175 million, which used digital wizardry to conjure up Rudyard Kipling’s jungle setting. Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, and Scarlett Johansson head up the vocal cast with Neel Sethi making his feature film debut as Mowgli, the feral child at the heart of the story.

Despite the shadow cast by “The Jungle Book,” New Line and MGM scored with “Barbershop: The Next Cut.” The third film in the “Barbershop” series racked up a sterling $20.2 million from 2,661 locations. Women comprised 54% of ticket buyers, and 66% of consumers were over the age of 25.

The weekend’s other new entry, Lionsgate’s action thriller “Criminal,” debuted to $5.8 million from 2,683 locations for a sixth place finish. The story of a convict who is implanted with the memories of a dead CIA agent in order to finish a mission stars Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Gary Oldman. It cost just north of $30 million to produce.

Last weekend’s champion, the Melissa McCarthy comedy “The Boss,” dropped 57%, taking third place with $10.2 million. The story of a business icon whose career is derailed by insider trading has earned $10.2 million in two weeks of release.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” captured fourth place, adding $9 million to its $311.3 million domestic haul.

In limited release, the Weinstein Company opened the musical-dramedy “Sing Street” in five locations, where it grossed $68,979 for a per-theater average of $13,796. A24 debuted the horror-thriller “Green Room” in three locations, earning $91,000, for a leading per-theater average of over $30,000. It will expand nationally on April 29.

More to come…
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Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Is this the strongest Top 5 we've had in awhile? 3 films reviewing in the 90s is new to see.
 
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Pop-O-Matic

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Shit, Batman v. Superman stayed ahead of Zootopia? I had my snarky response to the stream crossing ready to go and everything:

Modern Hollywood Tier List: Indian Kid > Thug Rapper > Fat Woman > Fucking ANIMALS > White Men. And people try and say we aren't oppressed...
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HeySeuss

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Jungle Book looks pretty cool but I'm not in any hurry to see it. And that's not meant as an insult in any way.

Poor Supes...
 
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Bobby Roberts

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awwww, man, I almost went two for two. I thought Batman v Superman would lose more theaters and Zootopia would be able to close the gap overall this weekend as a result, but it didn't happen. Primarily because a lot of that audience showed up for Jungle Book, which did cross 100mil.

This year is pretty fucking bonkers already, goddamn
 
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Son Of D

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Damn at the Jungle Book. Insane opening.

So I'm guessing Zootopia will be above BvS next week then?

Also Deadpool is about $11m from beating Passion of the Christ for top R-Rated domestic movie. Shame it won't get there, so close as well.
 
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AlteredBeast

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Damn at the Jungle Book. Insane opening.

So I'm guessing Zootopia will be above BvS next week then?

Also Deadpool is about $11m from beating Passion of the Christ for top R-Rated domestic movie. Shame it won't get there, so close as well.
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Not to mention that Passion did it 12 years ago. That movie was absolutely bonkers in total receipts and butts in seats.

Too bad Mel is still pretty blacklisted. The world deserves whatever else he has cooked up next (just so long as what is next isn't spousal abuse/bigoted ramblings)
 
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Bobby Roberts

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AlteredBeast said:
Too bad Mel is still pretty blacklisted.
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Nah, it ain't too bad at all. He had his run, and then he fucked himself.

He can stay fucked.

(Just rewatched Maverick the other day! Nobody talks about that movie, but it's pretty damned fun! Goldman script, Donner direction. GARNER. Charming as hell)
 
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MadmanUK

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It's pretty amazing that BvSDoJ won't take as much domestically as the R rated Deadpool. What's the current WW for BvS?
 
gimmmick

gimmmick

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Impressive opening for jungle book. I expect the movie have fantastic legs with such good word of mouth. Disney is doing work this year.


On a side note , is deadpool really going to make more money domestically than batman vs superman?
 
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DeathyBoy

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gimmmick said:
Impressive opening for jungle book. I expect the movie have fantastic legs with such good word of mouth. Disney is doing work this year.


On a side note , is deadpool really going to make more money domestically than batman vs superman?
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Yes.Only way BvS can top Deadpool domestically (it topped it WW) is to rush out the ultimate cut to theatres. But then that's technically a different film, so it shouldn't count. And even then, it's not doing 50+ million more.
 
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AlteredBeast

Fork 'em, Sparky!
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Nah, it ain't too bad at all. He had his run, and then he fucked himself.

He can stay fucked.

(Just rewatched Maverick the other day! Nobody talks about that movie, but it's pretty damned fun! Goldman script, Donner direction. GARNER. Charming as hell)
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I agree somewhat. Even still, if is the booze that makes him a human piece of shit and stays off booze, maybe he could be a functioning member of the film community. There have been a lot of despicable people who have come back from worse, so who knows. At least he didn't rape a young girl after plying her with quaaludes... So he's got that going for him.
 
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DeathyBoy

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kswiston said:
Worldwide Updates:

The Jungle Book - $291M
Batman v Superman - $827M
Zootopia - $882M
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When I think of Batman v Superman struggling to get to $850 million, all I hear in my head is this quote from BvS.

There was a time above... a time before... there were perfect things... diamond absolutes. But things fall... things on earth. And what falls... is fallen. In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.
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Yautja_Warrior

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Just got back from watching The Jungle Book. Wonderful movie, great voice cast, great CGI and even the kid (Neel Sethi) did a great job acting, when you consider he was acting opposite CGI animal's and not real people.

Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba are all great, Bill Murray as Baloo is brilliant, best performance I've heard from him in a while and Christopher Walken as King Louie is genius.

This deserves to do very well.
 
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duckroll

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Wow, even with this estimate, which seems a bit high for BvS, it still loses to Deadpool's total after 4 weekends. RIP.
 
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jett

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munchie64 said:
Would that technically count as CG animated since there'd be no humans? They could add them to change things up though.
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They should also change Simba's color to white. And replace the S in his name with a K. Just to change things up.
 
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kswiston

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This is the first weekend that Zootopia has dropped more than 40%. It should recover next weekend though, as there is only 1 wide release (Huntsman) and that one is tracking for a $25-35M debut.



As stated in the OP's Variety article, the Jungle Book earned 43% of its gross from 3D showings. If some of you are wondering why 3D isn't dying out, 63% of the international gross was from 3D screenings. ERC lists the following as the top 3D territories:

China - 98% of the total from 3D
Germany - 83% 3D
Brazil - 73% 3D
Russia - 60% 3D
 
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