Jungle Book still box-office king

The comic duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele play friends trying to save the stolen cat Keanu in Warner Bros.’ new film Keanu. It came in third at last weekend’s box office and made about $9.5 million.
The comic duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele play friends trying to save the stolen cat Keanu in Warner Bros.’ new film Keanu. It came in third at last weekend’s box office and made about $9.5 million.

LOS ANGELES -- For the third straight week, Disney's The Jungle Book bested all others at the box office, pushing its worldwide gross to almost $700 million and continuing a hot streak for the Burbank entertainment giant.

The studio's retelling of the classic Rudyard Kipling story pulled in about $44 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, beating analyst expectations of $30 million to $35 million.

The $175 million live-action and computer-generated production, directed by Jon Favreau, has made $253.4 million domestically and $684.8 million worldwide.

Disney's strong run at the box office is expected to continue this week as its latest Marvel Studios picture, Captain America: Civil War, hits American theaters. It already has grossed an impressive $200.2 million from international markets.

The company's other 2016 blockbuster, Zootopia, finished in the No. 6 spot domestically in its ninth week and raised its global gross to about $932 million.

Like Zootopia, The Jungle Book has a shot at reaching the coveted $1 billion mark, analysts say. The Jungle Book had little competition over the weekend. Though Universal's The Huntsman: Winter's War was expected to be a blockbuster, the part-prequel, part-spinoff followed a less-than-stellar debut with about $10 million over the weekend, good enough for second place. The picture, made for $115 million, has grossed about $34.2 million domestically and $131 million worldwide.

Warner Bros.' Keanu, Open Road's Mother's Day and Focus Features' Ratchet & Clank debuted to unspectacular results.

Keanu, starring comic duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele from Comedy Central's Key & Peele, finished third with about $9.5 million. Although analysts projected a gross of up to $15 million, the studio's expectations were more modest, at $10 million.

Key and Peele play friends trying to save a stolen kitten in the R-rated action comedy. Peele teamed with Key and collaborator Alex Rubens to write the screenplay, which is directed by the show's Peter Atencio.

Audiences and critics were relatively pleased with Keanu. Moviegoers gave it a B grade, according to polling firm CinemaScore, and 75 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics rated the film positively.

The feature, in partnership with New Line, cost $15 million to make.

The romantic comedy Mother's Day landed in fourth with about $8.4 million, about $2 million less than analyst predictions. Banking on a primarily female audience, the film has an all-star cast including Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Kate Hudson and comedian and talk show host Loni Love.

Directed by Garry Marshall, the picture drew very different responses from audiences and critics. The movie earned a B-plus CinemaScore but got only an 8 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In fifth place was Warner Bros.' Barbershop: The Next Cut. The Ice Cube comedy pulled in about $6 million in its third week for a domestic gross to date of about $45 million.

Ratchet & Clank, the animated big-screen version of a Sony PlayStation game, opened with about $5 million, well below analyst expectations that went as high as $10 million.

Though audiences gave the cartoon a B CinemaScore, only 19 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics liked the film.

This weekend seemingly belongs to Captain America: Civil War, with no other major releases planned.

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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

  1. The Jungle Book, Disney, $43,714,706, 4,041 locations, $10,818 average, $253,371,506, three weeks.

  2. The Huntsman: Winter's War, Universal, $9,619,300, 3,802 locations, $2,530 average, $34,215,325, two weeks.

  3. Keanu, Warner Bros., $9,453,224, 2,658 locations, $3,557 average, $9,453,224, one week.

  4. Mother's Day, Open Road, $8,369,184, 3,035 locations, $2,758 average, $8,369,184, one week.

  5. Barbershop: The Next Cut, Warner Bros., $6,080,496, 2,310 locations, $2,632 average, $44,661,136, three weeks.

  6. Zootopia, Disney, $5,328,858, 2,487 locations, $2,143 average, $323,841,347, nine weeks.

  7. Ratchet & Clank, Focus Features, $4,869,278, 2,891 locations, $1,684 average, $4,869,278, one week.

  8. The Boss, Universal, $4,286,820, 2,823 locations, $1,519 average, $56,147,945, four weeks.

  9. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros., $3,869,416, 2,330 locations, $1,661 average, $325,192,009, six weeks.

  10. Criminal, Lionsgate, $1,346,196, 1,578 locations, $853 average, $13,497,363, three weeks.

  11. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Universal, $1,108,820, 1,092 locations, $1,015 average, $57,295,620, six weeks.

  12. Met Opera: Elektra, Fathom Events, $1,037,000, 900 locations, $1,152 average, $1,037,000, one week.

  13. A Hologram for the King, Roadside Attractions, $943,227, 523 locations, $1,803 average, $2,564,641, two weeks.

  14. Green Room, A24, $926,370, 470 locations, $1,971 average, $1,323,256, three weeks.

  15. Eye in the Sky, Bleecker Street, $909,214, 614 locations, $1,481 average, $16,402,697, eight weeks.

  16. Compadres, Lionsgate, $650,844, 368 locations, $1,769 average, $2,393,033, two weeks.

  17. God's Not Dead 2, Pure Flix, $610,785, 739 locations, $827 average, $19,941,153, five weeks.

  18. Miracles From Heaven, Columbia, $536,864, 660 locations, $813 average, $59,669,273, seven weeks.

  19. Papa Hemingway in Cuba, Yari Film Group Releasing, $475,224, 325 locations, $1,462 average, $475,224, one week.

  20. Hello, My Name Is Doris, Roadside Attractions, $452,340, 406 locations, $1,114 average, $12,777,039, eight weeks.

MovieStyle on 05/06/2016

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