It was another good weekend for Disney's animalistic animation Zootopia (AKA Zootropolis in the UK for legal reasons), as the film stayed perched at the top of the US box office charts and earned an additional $50 million, according to studio estimates.
The new weekend total means the film has taken in more than $142.6 million in the US alone and, thanks to brisk business around the world (especially after a successful opening in China), now has more than $431.3 million in the bank.
10 Cloverfield Lane opened strong in second place, with audiences spurred by the usual layers of mystery wrapped around it by producer J.J. Abrams. It made $25.2 million, which might not be along the lines of Cloverfield's $40 million back in 2008, but is still healthy, especially when you consider that the new movie's budget was closer to $5 million, compared to the monster mash's $25 million.
Deadpool, meanwhile, stayed in third place, adding $10.8 million and celebrating its "monthiversary" by staying the audience's choice for R-rated madness this week.
London Has Fallen fell from second to fourth with $10.6 million, while Whiskey Tango Foxtrot slipped one place to fifth and $4.6 million.
The next three spots went to the other newcomers of the week, none of which did exactly sterling business. Billie Woodruff's rom-com The Perfect Match did the best of the three, landing in sixth with $4.1 million, while drama The Young Messiah, which follows a seven-year-old Jesus on his family's journey home to Nazareth, was seventh on the back of $3.4 million. But surely the biggest disappointment, but perhaps not the biggest surprise given the critical reaction, was Sacha Baron Cohen's latest, Grimsby, given the title The Brothers Grimsby to avoid Stateside audiences scratching their heads at a relatively obscure town's name. It crashed and burned in eighth place with $3.1 million. This is easily Cohen's worst opening weekend figure by a long shot, behind the likes of Borat, Bruno and The Dictator.
Ninth was Gods Of Egypt, making a swift descent down the charts, earning $2.5 million, while Biblical mystery thriller Risen was 10th with $2.2 million.