Box Office Weekend: Third Week a Charm for Jungle Book

The Jungle Book may have been out for three weeks, but it barely shows any signs of slowing down. With an estimated $42.4 million, it held its first-place post at the box office yet again, and by a similarly wide margin as it did the week before…The Huntsman: Winter’s War remained in second, but dropped to an estimated $9.4 million. It held nearly even against the well-reviewed Keanu (not the actor, but the latest Key & Peele comedy), which also picked up an estimated $9.4 million, but at only $15 million to make, Keanu has a much less difficult hill to climb compared to the middling performance of the $115 million Huntsman.

Mother’s Day opened to a lackluster critical response and an equally tepid box office, with an estimated $8.3 million. It has had the lowest opening of the Garry Marshall “Romantic Holiday” movies, and considering the previous budgets of Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Day hovered around the $50 million mark, this entry is likely not going to make back its costs for some time. Barbershop: The Next Cut and Zootopia, in the meantime, may have fallen to fifth and sixth place with an estimated $6.1 million and $5 million, respectively, but at least one of them is a definitive success, as Zootopia has long surpassed $931.4 million worldwide. Sadly, where Zootopia succeeded, Ratchet & Clank has failed…the CG film based on the Sony videogame property opened in seventh with $4.8 million, and even without a reported budget it is highly likely it did not cost only a few million to make.

The Boss closes in on breaking even as it adds an estimated $4.3 million, while Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice adds an estimated $3.8 million to $862.9 million worldwide take. Finally, in tenth, Criminal held onto the top ten for an estimated $1.3 million, but the Kevin Costner thriller will exit the list with a paltry $13.5 million total and likely a financial disappointment.

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When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."

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