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US Box-Office: ‘Zootropolis’ remains strong, ‘Grimbsy’ bombs

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Zootopia/ Zootropolis

It is a box-office success story which must be celebrated. Walt Disney’s Zootropolis, which opens in the U.K. over the Easter break, has now climbed to an enormous $431 million in global cinema takings, and has secured the number one spot in America from the second week in a row, so reports Box-Office Mojo. The film, which is known as Zootopia on domestic soil, and Zoomania across Europe (Zootropolis in the U.K.), has now become the highest-grossing Disney Animation or Pixar release after a very successful weekend in China, taking an addition $56.5 million for an accumulative $109 million after just ten days.

The film is still to open in Australia, Brazil, and Japan, and of course, the U.K. We’ve seen it, and its as good as they all say. Stick around for a review over the next few days.

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane, the spiritual sequel to Cloverfield also opened strong with the film bagging $25.2 million in box-office receipts in its first weekend out there. The film, which releases in the U.K. this week, had strong word-of-mouth buzz, and is set within the same universe as a film that managed to gross over $170 million back in 2008. Expect this to do even better as it expands across the planet. We’ll have a review this week.

At number three on the chart this week is Deadpool, a film that also has more celebrating to do, as it has managed to surpass $700 million in box-office takings. The 20th Century Fox movie, which stars Ryan Reynolds, is a global success story and continues to remain at the top of box-office charts around the globe. Can it break the billion?

Rounding out the top five were London Has Fallen, the action sequel to Olympus Has Fallen which added another $10.6 million to its total, and the Tina Fey comedy Whisky Tango Foxtrot which landed at number five taking in $4.6 million in its second weekend on the charts, and now has just over $14 million in the bank.

The other new entries this week included The Perfect Match which debuted in sixth place with $4.2 million, and The Young Messiah, which opened in seventh to $3.4 million.

Grimsby review

Grimsby/ The Brothers Grimsby

Elsewhere in the U.S. Box-Office, Grimsby, or The Brothers Grimsby as it is known in the North American territory, absolutely bombed. The Sacha Baron Cohen comedy, which we reviewed extremely positively a couple of weeks ago, made just $3.2 million from 2,235 cinemas. That only secured it the number eight spot on the chart. The film had a $35 million budget, and so far has only managed to scramble together $14.3 million in receipts.

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