Disney (DIS) took top honors at the box office for a fifth straight weekend as “Captain America: Civil War” grossing $72.6M in the U.S., falling shy of a forecasted $77M-$85M range.
The superhero film has brought in $296M domestically and $645M in foreign markets.
Box Office Runners Up
“The Jungle Book,” also from Disney, added $17.8M in its fifth week, reaching a cumulative domestic total of $312M.
Sony’s (SNE) financial thriller “Money Monster,” directed by Jodie Foster and starring George Clooney, debuted at $15M against forecasts of $10M-$13M. Also opening this weekend was High Top Releasing’s supernatural horror film “The Darkness,” whose $5.2M debut has already surpassed its reported budget of $4M.
Rounding out the top five was “Mother’s Day,” from Regal (RGC) and AMC’s (AMC) Open Road Films, with $3.3M. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include 21st Century Fox (FOX), Comcast (CMCSA), Lionsgate (LGF), Time Warner (TWX) and Viacom (VIA).
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