It seems that Disney is going to be leading the box office for the foreseeable future. The Jungle Book retained the top spot for the third straight week grossing $42.4 million, which brings its total gross to over $250 million. The film looks to eventually join Deadpool, Zootopia and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice among the $300 million domestic grossing movies.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War retained second place and brought in $9.4 million. We had two of the new releases of the week Keanu and Mother’s Day take third and fourth place this weekend. Keanu, the buddy comedy from Comedy Central’s Key & Peele brought in just under $9.4 million and Mother’s Day starring Julia Roberts and Jennifer Anniston grossed $8.3 million according to Box Office Mojo.
Barbershop: The Next Cut rounded out the top five with $6.1 million. The other new release of the weekend, Ratchet and Clank which is based on the video games managed to record only $4.8 million.
The summer blockbuster season kicks off next week with Captain America: Civil War which is expected to have a huge opening weekend.