Captain America: Civil War‘s reign atop the box office came to a decidedly unheroic end this weekend. Even Cap’s iconic vibranium-alloy shield wasn’t enough to fend off the brutal onslaught of a bunch of aggrieved animated avians.
The Angry Birds Movie—a flick inspired by the enormously popular video game of the same name—flew to the top of the perch in its opening frame, feathering Sony’s nest with an estimated $39 million. That was despite decidedly lukewarm reviews from mainstream critics and Plugged In’s own Bob Hoose, who cried, ahem, fowl, at some of the kiddie film’s winks at inappropriate adult humor—not to mention its get-angry-and-get-even life lesson.
Cap’s warring buddies, meanwhile, were still good for another $33.1 million in Civil War’s third weekend. That haul, when added to its overseas earnings, was enough to push Marvel’s latest spandex-clad sequel over the $1 billion mark internationally, a feat it accomplished in just 24 days.
Two content-crammed R-rated newcomers clocked in at Nos. 3 and 4. Seth Rogen and Zac Effron joined forces to battle a bunch of sorority sisters in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, a sequel to 2014’s Neighbors. Their crude, graphic antics managed to attract an estimated $21.8 million, enough to nab the No. 3 spot. And while that might seem like a pretty big number on the surface, it represents a 55% drop compared to its predecessor’s $49 million bow. Perhaps the franchise can now move out of the cinematic neighborhood for good.
About $10 million behind that was Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling’s detective dramedy noir The Nice Guys—which, as I noted in my review, is anything but nice. It netted $11.3 million.
Rounding out the Top 5 was Disney’s The Jungle Book, taking in another $11 million to push its domestic tally in six weeks to $327.5 million.
This coming weekend will very likely see another group of Marvel heroes and villains have Cap’s back by wreaking revenge on those Angry Birds when X-Men: Apocalypse makes its North American debut. The latest mutant-muscled movie has already opened in many foreign markets, quickly amassing $103.3 million before it’s officially made a penny Stateside. So one suspects that Cyclops will have those frustrated flightless birds very much in his laser beam sights.
Final figures update: 1. The Angry Birds Movie, $38.2 million; 2. Captain America: Civil War, $32.9 million; 3. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, $21.8 million; 4. The Nice Guys, $11.2 million; 5. The Jungle Book, $10.9 million.
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