Box Office Report: The Jungle Book does third biggest 2016 opening
The total haul of $17.64m for the top 20 movies was the best weekend since the opening weekend of Batman v Superman
• Walt Disney's The Jungle Book the third biggest opening of 2016
#1 An opening weekend of $6.04m ranks The Jungle Book as the third-biggest opening of the year so far. The biggest opening of the year belongs to Deadpool with $14.94m followed by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with $13.15m.
The total haul of $17.64m for the top 20 movies was the best weekend since the opening weekend of Batman v Superman pushed the takings to $27.14m.
The first week of the school holidays helped pump up The Jungle Book takings with the film taking over 572 screens with a screen average of $10,572. That is the best opening weekend average since Batman v Superman's $22,150. The only movies to occupy more screens this year were Batman v Superman on 594 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens which was on 832 screens at the start of 2016.
#2 The Boss was tipped for a strong opening after the impressive publicity tour put together by Universal for its stars, screenwriters and producers Melissa McCarthy and Peter Falcone. The film opened with $2.14m on 294 screens with a healthy screen average of $7,280.
#3 Divergent Series: Allegiant nearly did as much business as The Boss on fewer screens giving it a better screen average of $8,453. The sequel to Insurgent has not been a critical favourite but it opened here with a screen average close to $8,500 on 247 screens for an opening weekend of $2.08m.
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#4 The fifth weekend for Zootopia, the second Walt Disney release in the top five, did $1.89m with the movie passing $23m.
#5 The second weekend of The Huntsman: Winter's War was the only other film to crack $1m on the weekend. The movie earned $1.13m as it closes in on $5m.
There were two other Indian new releases on limited release which each took $305,000 and found their way into the top 10:
#9 Theri on 17 screens at a screen average of $17,989
#10 Fan on 36 screens at a screen average of $8,486
Deadpool, ranked #17 this week, is close to dropping out of the top 20 as it passes $43m after 10 weeks.
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