The Walt Disney Company’s string of box office magic continued this weekend, as “Captain America: Civil War” opened with the fifth-highest opening weekend sales figure ever.
The movie was projected to sell $181.8 million worth of tickets in the United States and Canada this weekend, according to Disney cash register tapes analyzed by comScore’s Paul Degarabedian.
Another Disney movie, “The Jungle Book,” has been number one the three prior weekends, and slipped to the number two spot. Add in the number seven movie this week — Disney’s “Zootopia” — and the recent movies from the Glendale-based studio have grossed $794 million domestically in the first five months of the year.
“Captain America: Civil War” posts “the biggest opening of 2016 thus far, to officially kick off the summer of 2016,” said Dergarabedian. The movie comes from Disney’s Marvel brand, and it is the tenth Marvel pic to open with more than $100 million in opening weekend sales.
The live action remake of “The Jungle Book” dropped to second place, with a $21.9 million weekend and $285 million domestically over the last 24 days. Add in the rest of the world, and that movie has taken in $776.2 million.
“Mother’s Day” was third, with $9 million in expected sales by the end of this Mother’s Day.
“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” was fourth at $3.6 million, and “Keanu” was fifth with $3 million in expected sales by the close of business tonight.
Rounding out the top 10 movies this weekend, as reported by the studios and collated by Rentrak, were “Barbershop: The Next Cut” ($2.70 million), “Zootopia” ($2.67 million), “The Boss” ($1.7 million), “Ratchet And Clank” ($1.5 million) and “Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice” ($1 million).
–City News Service