ZootopiaThree new releases, but (as expected) not one of them was able to unseat Zootopia as the box office champ. One of them, in fact, was a massive for-the-ages flop.
Zootopia came in at #1 for the third week in a row, passing $200 million in the process. This is a major, major hit for Disney — and one that boasts excellent reviews. Is this our frontrunner to win Best Animated Feature at next year’s Oscars?
Coming in at #2 was The Divergent Series: Allegiant. The takeaway here is that audiences seem to have grown tired of this series, and understandably so; these are not good films. Divergent opened with $54.6 million, and Insurgent with $52.2 — so there’s no way to see Allegiant’s results as anything other than a disappointment. The last film in the series will arrive next March, but at this point we should expect this franchise to limp to its end.
Miracles from Heaven came in at #3, with a result that is pretty impressive for a faith-based film. Expect word-of-mouth among churchgoers to keep this one in play for a few weeks. 10 Cloverfield Lane slipped two slots to #4 in its second week, though these are still pretty good results for a low-key thriller that received little marketing and whose very premise was shrouded in secrecy. Deadpool, meanwhile, eased two slots to #5. Week after week, the vulgar superhero comedy boasts tiny declines — people really love this movie. Its current total is a huge $340 million.
The next four slots were occupied by familiar titles — London Has Fallen at #6, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot at #7, The Perfect Match at #8, and The Brothers Grimsby at #9, with negligible numbers for those last three. Things at this point in the chart look so grim that The Revenant even managed to slip back into the chart at #10.
But nothing was grimmer than the results for The Bronze. The indie comedy had a disastrous weekend, coming it at #22 and only $386,328 in ticket sales. The per-screen average was an embarrassing $331! No one could have predicted that this would do so poorly. As it stands, the film boasts one of the worst opening weekends of all time, in terms of per-screen average. Yikes.
| TW | LW | Title | Gross (est.) | Cumulative (est.) | Weeks in Release |
| 1 | 1 | Zootopia | $38,042,000 | $201,807,497 | 3 |
| 2 | N | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | $29,050,000 | $29,050,000 | 1 |
| 3 | N | Miracles from Heaven | $15,000,000 | $18,557,053 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | $12,500,000 | $45,176,639 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | Deadpool | $8,000,000 | $340,941,383 | 6 |
| 6 | 4 | London Has Fallen | $6,894,000 | $50,089,820 | 3 |
| 7 | 5 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | $2,805,000 | $19,275,840 | 3 |
| 8 | 6 | The Perfect Match | $1,900,000 | $7,306,179 | 2 |
| 9 | 8 | The Brothers Grimsby | $1,400,000 | $5,912,670 | 2 |
| 10 | 11 | The Revenant | $1,225,000 | $181,161,538 | 13 |
Source: Box Office Mojo
What did you see this weekend?
