The Jungle Book Dominates The Weekend Box Office Again

Jon Favreau’s take on the classic Mowgli tale, 'The Jungle Book', has been crowned king at the weekend box office with its $42 million. Running on its third weekend, the animated flick has now reached $684 million. The movie has characters voiced by Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken and Bill Murray.

The Chris Hemsworth starrer ‘The Huntsman: Winter's War’ was far behind ‘The Jungle Book’ but still secured the second spot on the weekend box office top five list with its $9.39 million. The worldwide earnings for the Cedric Nicolas-Troyan directorial have reached $130 million on its second weekend. Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ was quite close to Winter’s War as it opened with $9.35 million. The movie stars Keygan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

Also released alongside ‘Keanu’ was 'Mother’s Day' starring Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Chalke, Kate Hudson and Jon Lovitz. The movie, directed by Garry Marshall, grossed $8.3 million. Ice Cube’s 'Barbershop: The Next Cut' made it to the top five with its $6.1 million. The movie has been in theatres for three weekends and has pooled in $44 million overall.

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