{"id":41468,"date":"2016-03-06T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=41468"},"modified":"2016-03-12T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T18:59:41","slug":"box-office-zootopia-sets-a-new-disney-record-and-risen-is-on-the-verge-of-passing-hail-caesar-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/03\/box-office-zootopia-sets-a-new-disney-record-and-risen-is-on-the-verge-of-passing-hail-caesar-in-north-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Zootopia<\/i> sets a new Disney record, and Risen<\/i> is on the verge of passing Hail, Caesar!<\/i> in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Another record was broken this week<\/a>, as Zootopia<\/b><\/i> had the biggest opening weekend of any non-Pixar Disney cartoon ever at the North American box office.<\/p>\n

The film \u2014 which imagines a world in which animals, rather than humans, grapple with identity politics \u2014 led the top ten with an estimated $73.7 million between Friday and Sunday, which is the second-best opening ever for an \u201coriginal\u201d animated film<\/a>, behind Pixar\u2019s Inside Out<\/a><\/i>. The other animated films that had bigger openings were all sequels or, in the case of The Simpsons Movie<\/a><\/i>, spun off from a popular TV show.<\/p>\n

The previous best animated Disney opener was Frozen<\/a><\/i>, which earned $67.4 million in its first weekend of wide release back in 2013. However, because that film went wide on a Wednesday, it actually earned $93.9 million by the end of its first Sunday.<\/p>\n

Two other films had wide releases this week.<\/p>\n

London Has Fallen<\/b><\/i> opened to $21.7 million, which was better than the opening for last week\u2019s Gerard Butler<\/a> vehicle Gods of Egypt<\/a><\/i>, but not as good as the openings for Olympus Has Fallen<\/i> or its rival White House Down<\/i> three years ago.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tina Fey\u2019s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot<\/b><\/i> struggled to gross $7.6 million.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that three new films opened ahead of it, Risen<\/b><\/i> \u2014 which earned $3.9 million this week \u2014 dropped only two spots, from fourth place last week to sixth place this week. Kung Fu Panda 3<\/b><\/i>, which used to be ahead of Risen<\/i>, had a steeper drop and fell to seventh place, no doubt due in part to competition from Zootopia<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Risen<\/i> has now grossed $28.7 million altogether in North America, as well as another $374,378 overseas, for a combined worldwide gross of $29 million.<\/p>\n

In other news, superhero comedy Deadpool<\/b><\/i> earned another $16.4 million in North America in its fourth week, thereby raising its domestic total to $311.2 million.<\/p>\n

The film still ranks third among R-rated movies in North America. It is ahead of where The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i> (total domestic gross: $370.8 million) and American Sniper<\/a><\/i> (total domestic gross: $350.1 million) were in their<\/i> fourth weeks, but its fourth-week take was lower than theirs, so it might fall behind them in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n

Deadpool<\/i> has earned another $362.1 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $673.2 million. Overseas, among American R-rated films, it is behind only The Matrix Reloaded<\/a><\/i> ($460.6 million), Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i> ($404.8 million) and Troy<\/a><\/i> ($364 million).1<\/sup> Worldwide, it is second only to The Matrix Reloaded<\/i> ($742.1 million).<\/p>\n

Now for a little more data about Risen<\/i> and where it sits relative to similar films:<\/p>\n

Risen<\/i> already had the fourth-best first weekend<\/a> and the seventh-best second weekend<\/a> of any \u201cfaith-based\u201d film<\/a>, and now it has the ninth-best third weekend:<\/p>\n