Box Office: Melissa McCarthy Bests Batman & Superman
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Melissa McCarthy, The Boss, came up against both Batman & Superman at the weekend and scored a Victory, as the comedian’s new feature took Top Spot at the North American box office with an estimated $23.48-M, only a bit above Batman v. Superman’s weekend gross of $23.44-M.
The Superhero movie fell 54% in its 3rd frame as its total domestic take rose to $296.7-M, but it led the international box office list with $34-M, bringing its worldwide take to $783.5-M.
Hardcore Henry, the 1st-person POV action movie from STX Entertainment debuted at just $5.1-M for a 5th-place showing from 3,015 locations. Its audience was heavily male, 76%, and young, with 67% in the 17-34 age group. While STX acquired the movie for $10-M at the Toronto Film Festival, the studio said that its foreign sales limited its exposure to $2-M.
At the specialty box office
Fox Searchlight (NASDAQ:FOX) opened Demolition, Jean-Marc Vallee’s drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man coping with the death of his wife, in 854 locations, where it grossed $1.1-M, for a per-theater average of just $1,317.
At the international box office
Warners’, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) Batman v Superman led the list with $34 million in 67 markets to bring its international total to $486.8-M.
Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) The Jungle Book and Universal’s, a unit of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) The Huntsman: Winter’s War debuted international in advance of their North American openings with The Jungle Book taking in $28.9-M for 2nd and The Huntsman taking in $20-M for 5th place.
Millenium’s London Has Fallen in 3rd place with $26-M and Disney’s Zootopia in 4th with $22.7-M.
The Boss, released by Universal in 3,480 locations, got a dismal C+ rating from CinemaScore, along the way. But, Ms. McCarthy claimed her 3rd No. 1 one opening, following Y 2013’s Identity Thief and Spy.
The Boss was produced for $29-M is coming in on the low-end for one of Ms. McCarthy’s trademark R-rated comedies.
Disney’s animated Zootopia, in its 9th weekend, rang in in 3rd place with an additional $14.4-M, bringing its domestic gross to $296-M and with the addition of $22.7-M form international markets, its worldwide box off take is now $852.5-M ranking it as the 5th highest-grossing original animated release of all time and the 11th highest-grossing animated movie ever and is only $5-M shy of surpassing Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out.
In 4th place, Universal’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 pulled in $6.4-M in it 3rd frame to bring its domestic box office to $46.7-M.
Faith-based movies occupied 6th and 7th slots, with Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) Miracles From Heaven attracting $4.8-M for a $53.9-M domestic take, and Pure Flix’s God’s Not Dead 2 taking $4.3-M for a $14.1-M North American total.
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Paul Ebeling
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