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"The Jungle Book" gets second weekend box office win in North America

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Disney's "The Jungle Book" continued to lead the box office in its second weekend of releasing. Universal's "Huntsman: Winter's War" opened in a far distant second place.

The 3D live-action computer animated film directed by Jon Favreau is estimated to take in 60 million U.S. dollars in sales this weekend, dropping 41 percent from last weekend's debut.

"The Jungle Book" is quickly approaching the 200 million dollars mark in North America with a massive ten-day gross of 191.5 million dollars. Around the world, the movie has sold 528 million dollars so far.

" 'The Jungle Book' continues to wow audiences across the board, and has enjoyed a perfect combination of great reviews, solid social media buzz and good old-fashioned word of mouth," said movie industry analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

The Universal's film "Huntsman: Winter's War" finished in a distant second place with an estimated 20.1 million dollars. "The Huntsman: Winter's War" opened at 3,791 locations and received a solid "B+" rating from first night moviegoers on CinemaScore, but only has a 17 percent of positive rating from critics on RottenTomatoes.

Rounding out the rest of the top 10 movies at box office chart this weekend were "Barbershop: The Next Cut" (10.8 million dollars), "Zootopia" (6.6 million), "The Boss" (6 million), "Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" (5.5 million), "Criminal" (3.1 million), "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" (2.1 million), "Compadres" (1.4 million), "Eye in the Sky" (1.2 million). Endi