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| The Huntsman clobbered by The Jungle Book at US box office | The Huntsman clobbered by The Jungle Book at US box office |
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| The fantasy prequel The Huntsman: Winter’s War looks set to become the latest high-profile box-office bomb of 2016 after grossing $20.1m (£13.9m) from its opening weekend in North America. The follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman debuted in second place, while the Disney remake The Jungle Book continued to show off its big beast status in top spot. | The fantasy prequel The Huntsman: Winter’s War looks set to become the latest high-profile box-office bomb of 2016 after grossing $20.1m (£13.9m) from its opening weekend in North America. The follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman debuted in second place, while the Disney remake The Jungle Book continued to show off its big beast status in top spot. |
| Winter’s War, which stars Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain and Chris Hemsworth, has received terrible reviews. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw labelled the film, which had a 17% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, a “dreary sub-franchise fairytale product”. Bradshaw added: “It takes its audience to a zen state beyond pointlessness, an incoherent CGI world created by an army of execs at a million dire meetings, grimly hashing out the ways in which the profitability of the first film could be continued and maximised by pinching plot points from Frozen, and set-dressing from Narnia and Middle-earth.” | Winter’s War, which stars Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain and Chris Hemsworth, has received terrible reviews. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw labelled the film, which had a 17% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, a “dreary sub-franchise fairytale product”. Bradshaw added: “It takes its audience to a zen state beyond pointlessness, an incoherent CGI world created by an army of execs at a million dire meetings, grimly hashing out the ways in which the profitability of the first film could be continued and maximised by pinching plot points from Frozen, and set-dressing from Narnia and Middle-earth.” |
| The Jungle Book topped $500m at the global box office this weekend and scored a roaring $60.8m in its second week. It has now grossed $191.5m at the North American box office in just two weeks. | The Jungle Book topped $500m at the global box office this weekend and scored a roaring $60.8m in its second week. It has now grossed $191.5m at the North American box office in just two weeks. |
| Two other new movies made the top 10 this week. Compadres, a Mexican-American action comedy about a disgruntled cop forced to work with a teenage hacker to track down his wife’s killer, was in ninth spot with $1.4m. And the comedy drama A Hologram for the King, starring Tom Hanks, snuck in at No 10 with $1.2m in receipts. | Two other new movies made the top 10 this week. Compadres, a Mexican-American action comedy about a disgruntled cop forced to work with a teenage hacker to track down his wife’s killer, was in ninth spot with $1.4m. And the comedy drama A Hologram for the King, starring Tom Hanks, snuck in at No 10 with $1.2m in receipts. |
| The Guardian’s Nigel M Smith described it as “a meandering mess of half-baked storylines that amount to little”. Tom Tykwer’s movie centres on a desperate US businessman who arrives in Saudi Arabia hoping to sell a holographic teleconferencing system to the titular monarch. | The Guardian’s Nigel M Smith described it as “a meandering mess of half-baked storylines that amount to little”. Tom Tykwer’s movie centres on a desperate US businessman who arrives in Saudi Arabia hoping to sell a holographic teleconferencing system to the titular monarch. |
| North American box office, 22-24 April | North American box office, 22-24 April |
| 1. The Jungle Book: $60.8m. Total: $191.5m2. The Huntsman: Winter’s War: $20.1m – NEW3. Barbershop: The Next Cut: $10.8m. Total: $36m 4. Zootopia: $6.6m. Total: $316.4m 5. The Boss: $6.1m. Total: $49.5m 6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $5.5m. Total: $319.5m7. Criminal: $3.1m. Total: $10.9m8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2: $2.1m. Total: $55.3m 9. Compadres: $1.4m – NEW10. A Hologram for the King: $1.2m – NEW | 1. The Jungle Book: $60.8m. Total: $191.5m2. The Huntsman: Winter’s War: $20.1m – NEW3. Barbershop: The Next Cut: $10.8m. Total: $36m 4. Zootopia: $6.6m. Total: $316.4m 5. The Boss: $6.1m. Total: $49.5m 6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $5.5m. Total: $319.5m7. Criminal: $3.1m. Total: $10.9m8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2: $2.1m. Total: $55.3m 9. Compadres: $1.4m – NEW10. A Hologram for the King: $1.2m – NEW |
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