Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ leads in box office sales this weekend

Walt Disney Animation Studios has a hit on its hands, as “Zootopia” opened with an estimated $73.7 in domestic ticket sales this weekend.

That’s better than the previous best-selling feature cartoon from the mouse house: 2013’s “Frozen” and its $67.4 million opening weekend, according to the movie stats keepers at comScore.

“With great reviews, a terrific marketing campaign and a family film marketplace that has seen a mere trickle of product over the past few months, ‘Zootopia’ was like catnip to enthusiastic audiences of all ages,” gushed comScore analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

Add in ticket sales around the world, and that’s $137 million in new Disney dollars, the studio reported.

The R-rated action movie “London Has Fallen” was in second place for the Friday-through Sunday period, with a $21.7 million tikcet sales sum.

And the R-rated thriller “Deadpool” had another good weekend, with $16.4 million in the cash registers on its third weekend of exhibition. That was to lift it to what comScore’s Dergarabedian called a “staggering” $311.2 million over 24 days of showings.

Another Tina Fey raunchy comedy opened in fourth place: “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”, with a $7.6 million debut.

Rounding out the two 10 movies this weekend, at theaters in the United States and Canada, as estimated by the studios, were “Gods Of Egypt” ($5 million), “Risen” ($3.9 million), “Kung Fu Panda 3″ ($3.5 million), “The Revenant” ($3.3 million), “Eddie The Eagle” ($3.1 million) and “The Witch” ($2.5 million).

–City News Service

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