When one of your movie’s main stars is an animated rabbit, it makes sense, that the movie itself might hop the competition.
Zootopia did just that this weekend. Disney’s latest animated adventure corralled an estimated $50 million, making the movie’s second weekend win a no-doubter. Zootopia has already grossed $142.6 million in North America in just 10 days, and it’s doing even better abroad: It’s earned more than $430 million worldwide. That’s a lot of carrots.
Perhaps if newcomer 10 Cloverfield Lane featured a tortoise somewhere, it might’ve had a chance of beating the fleet-footed Zootopia. Alas, there was no room for pets of any kind in the movie’s creepy apocalyptic bunker, which doomed the Cloverfield spinoff to a second-place, $25.2 million finish. But the flick could hang around for a while, given its glowing secular reviews. Like the movie’s bunker, it was built for the long haul.
Deadpool continues to make money hand over bloody fist, banking $10.8 million to hold third place for the second straight week. Or, at least, that’s what it looks like right now. London Has Fallen, with its $10.7 million weekend take, trails the snide superhero by just $100,000—a mere pittance in Hollywoodland.
Meanwhile, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot collected $4.6 million to keep a trio of new movies outside the Top Five. The Perfect Match was the closest to breaking into the bunch, collecting $4.2 million in matching funds. The Young Messiah—the second major faith-based movie to come out this year—couldn’t match the strong performance of Risen and finished seventh with $3.4 million. And The Brothers Grimsby, Sacha Baron Cohen’s over-the-top gross-out comedy, was ironically a gross-earnings flop. It earned just $3.2 million to sulk into eighth place.
Final figures update: 1. Zootopia, $51.3 million; 2. 10 Cloverfield Lane, $24.7 million; 3. Deadpool, $10.9 million; 4. London Has Fallen, $10.8 million; 5. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, $4.7 million; 6. The Perfect Match, $4.3 million; 7. The Young Messiah, $3.3 million; 8. The Brothers Grimsby, $3.3 million.
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