WEEKEND BOX OFFICE BREAKDOWN: May 13-15, 2016

~Matt Reed
Hailing Frequencies Open

CAPTAIN AMERICA REMAINS #1. THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE TOPS $10 BILLION WORLDWIDE.

After ten days of domestic release and twenty days international, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR has amassed a staggering $940.8 mil worldwide. It’s crushed BATMAN VS SUPERMAN worldwide total of $868.8 mil, which took two months to achieve, and helped Disney top $10 billion in worldwide sales for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. With no real competition in its genre until X-MEN: APOCOLYPSE opens in two weeks, it’s just a matter of how much past $1 billion CIVIL WAR goes. Although I’m not sure it will top the $1.5 billion of the original AVENGERS, it will most certainly overtake IRON MAN 3’s $1.2 billion total.

The two new releases couldn’t top THE JUNGLE BOOK, which came in at #2. This film has incredible legs, losing only 27% of its week-to-week audience. TJB worldwide total now stands at $828 mil, further cementing Disney’s live-action remakes of its classic animated films. Witness the sequel ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS opening in two weeks and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 2017.

Jodi Foster’s MONEY MONSTER met expectations, pulling in an estimated $15 mil. Although it didn’t serve as much of an adult alternative to a superhero film and a fable, it did respectable business all things considered. So too did the micro budgeted horror film THE DARKNESS. Other Blumhouse horror films have been budgeted in the $5 mil neighborhood, so although not setting the world on fire, THE DARKNESS has already become a decent earner with its $5.1 mil opening.

As far as the rest, MOTHER’S DAY took a huge, albeit expected, tumble by dropping nearly 71% of its week-to-week audience. The poorly received film now stands at $28.7 mil domestic and should quickly drop out of the top ten altogether.

By midweek Disney will have three films with domestic grosses of over $300 mil at the same time and all in the top ten. Rounding out their nearly $1 billion in domestic receipts is ZOOTOPIA. It had the lowest week-to-week drop of any film in the top ten at 12% and has earned $331.8 mil domestic ($969.8 bil total worldwide) after 11 weeks of release.

For those wondering where BvS stands on the chart, it earned a paltry $535,000 this weekend, dropping it from #10 to #14.

Up Next: Three new films competing to take over the #1 spot. The animated feature film debut of the worldwide phenomenon game THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE. The sequel to the 2014 hit comedy NEIGHBORS ($270.6 mil worldwide), NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING. The Shane Black directed comedy THE NICE GUYS starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

Here, as always, are the weekend domestic estimates courtesy of our friends at
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ :