Zootopia topped the Friday box office with an estimated $19.4 million and an “A” CinemaScore with rival studios projecting a three-day weekend anywhere from $70-78 million. As was pointed out in the weekend preview below, Zootopia will need to pass $70.2 million to top The Lorax for the largest opening weekend for an animated film in March. That said, if it can manage to beat even rival estimates and score larger than $79.1 million it will have the third highest opening weekend in March, topping 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful.
London Has Fallen scored an estimated $7.59 million on Friday with the studio currently expecting the film’s opening weekend to finish around $21 million. Opening day audiences gave the film a solid “A-” CinemaScore, the same as Olympus Has Fallen which opened with $10 million in its first day of release and a $30 million opening weekend. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot brought in an estimated $2.4 million with the studio currently expecting a three-day opening around $7 million. The film received a “B” CinemaScore from opening day audiences.
Meanwhile, Deadpool fell just short of crossing the $300 million mark on Friday but will do so today and last week’s newcomers aren’t fairing too well with both Gods of Egypt and Triple 9 looking at 70+% drops.
- Zootopia (3,827 theaters) – $72.71 M
- London Has Fallen (3,490 theaters) – $20.24 M
- Deadpool (3,624 theaters) – $16.8 M
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2,374 theaters) – $8.07 M
- Gods of Egypt (3,117 theaters) – $6.64 M
- Kung Fu Panda 3 (2,700 theaters) – $4.63 M
- The Revenant (1,488 theaters) – $4.15 M
- Risen (2,507 theaters) – $4.09 M
- Eddie the Eagle (2,042 theaters) – $3.41 M
- Triple 9 (2,205 theaters) – $3.18 M
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