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Weekend Box Office: 'Captain America' Passes 'Deadpool,' 'Jungle Book' Tops 'Batman V Supeman'

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The Angry Birds Movie earned $18.7 million on its second weekend, a drop of 51%. That brings the Rovio Entertainment release's domestic total up to $66.3m. We should expect a $24m (-39%) holiday haul. That will give the Sony animated feature a $72m 11-day total, or about its domestic budget. It should be over $220m worldwide by Monday, already making it the fifth-biggest video game movie of all time behind Resident Evil: Retribution ($240m), Tomb Raider ($274m), Resident Evil: Afterlife ($296m), and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ($336m). In terms of domestic totals, it's fourth behind Pokemon ($85m), Prince of Persia ($90m), and Tomb Raider ($131m).

Captain America: Civil War earned another $15.1 million on its fourth weekend (-54%) to bring its domestic cume to $374m. The Walt Disney superhero sequel passed Deadpool ($362m) yesterday to be the year's biggest domestic champion and will likely earn around $19.5m  over the holiday for an over/under $376m domestic total. It should flirt with $400m within the next two weeks. And give or take Finding Dory, it will likely remain the year's top domestic grosser until possibly Rogue One does its thing right at the end of the year. Regarding worldwide totals, it's at $1.1076 billion, currently the 15th biggest movie of all time.

Sadly, Universal's Neighbors 2 took a brutal hit in the second frame. The Seth Rogen/Zac Efron/Rose Byrne/Chloe Moretz sequel grossed $9.1m (-58%) over the Friday to Monday frame, which brings its cume up to $40m domestic. Oddly enough, the film is almost equaling its domestic number overseas, with a $36m foreign cume (it opened earlier, but still). The $35m comedy has now earned $76m worldwide. In other Universal/ Comcast Corp. news, The Huntsman  has earned $160m worldwide while The Boss now has $75m global. Oh, and they've been distributing The Witch overseas to the tune of $10m giving the horror gem a $37m worldwide cume.

Disney's The Jungle Book earned around $9 million over the holiday haul for a new $341m cume. That puts it past Alice in Wonderland ($334m) and Zootopia (which will make around $1.25m for the weekend for a new $336m total). The Jungle Book now sits with $879m worldwide, putting it past Batman v Superman ($870m). Zootopia now has $991m worldwide. That means, with $50m in Japan, it's probably going to crawl over the $1 billion mark. Oh, and it's now the second-biggest original movie ever behind Avatar. While Alice Through the Looking Glass got crushed this weekend, Disney did cross the $4 billion mark worldwide. So it's got that going for it.

And Shane Black's The Nice Guys didn't get a ton of holiday traction, earning $6.37 million (-43%) to bring its cume to $21.734m. Expect an $8m holiday weekend (-35%) and a $23.4m eleven-day cume. Oddly enough, most of the (few) "outside the bubble" adults I know have either seen the film or plan to over the next week or so.  Sony's official adult counterprogramming of the month, Money Monster, is holding up a bit better. The Jodie Foster-directed thriller will earn around $5.4m over the holiday for a $35m cume. The George Clooney/Julia Roberts drama cost $28m to produce.

Love & Friendship expanded to 493 theaters this weekend and earned around $2.5 million  (+340%) over the holiday for its trouble. The well-reviewed Whit Stillman comedy, a Jane Austin adaptation starring Kate Beckinsale, should make around $3.5m (+483%) over the holiday weekend for a new $4.563m. Don't be surprised if this one sticks around for awhile and crawls to $30m domestic.

Also expanding this weekend is The Lobster, which earned $725k in 119 locations over the Fri-Sun weekend for a likely $942k holiday haul. That will give the superb Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz comedy a $2.16m cume. The Darkness should make around $934k (-62%) on its third holiday-inflated weekend for a $10m domestic cume, while The Meddler should have $699k (-20%) on 420 screens for a new $3.14m cume by Monday night.

Next weekend sees the debuts of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows from Paramount/Viacom Inc., Me Before You from Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc., and Popstar: Never Stop Stopping from Universal/Comcast Corp.

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