Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book has taken a big bite out of the US box office, topping it with $103.6m (\u00a373.1m) in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n
Its debut was the second biggest April opening in history, behind only Furious 7’s $147.2m (\u00a3104m) launch in 2015.<\/p>\n
According to the studio, Jon Favreau’s film also made an estimated $136.1m (\u00a396m) outside the US and Canada.<\/p>\n
Comedy sequel Barbershop: The Next Cut came a distant second, with opening weekend takings of $20.2m (\u00a314.2m).<\/p>\n
Disney has achieved success of late with transforming its classic cartoons into live-action remakes, including Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty makeover Maleficent.<\/p>\n
The Jungle Book is is a mixture of live action featuring Neel Sethi as Mowgli, with the rest of the footage created with animation.<\/p>\n
It features computer-generated versions of such familiar characters as Baloo the bear, Kaa the snake and Shere Khan the tiger.<\/p>\n
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba lend their voices to the roles, with Christopher Walken and Sir Ben Kingsley voicing other characters.<\/p>\n
Slapstick comedy The Boss slipped to third place in its second weekend in cinemas, taking $10.2m (\u00a37.2m) between Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Disney animation Zootopia – released as Zootropolis in the UK – round out this week’s top five.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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