World Box Office: One-Two Punch

This week, two cartoons rule the globe.

WEEKEND FOREIGN BOX OFFICE -- (WORLD TOTALS)

Zootopia -- $83,100,000 -- ($431,315,126)

Kung Fu Panda 3 -- $26,400,000 -- ($355,907,868)

Deadpool -- $11,300,000 -- ($708,077,425) ...

And an entertainment journal tells us:

... Zootopia claimed No. 1 international box office bragging rights this frame — thanks in large part to China. In its 2nd week of PROC release, the Disney charmer jumped 139% from last session’s opening in what is a rare feat in that market. With a $56.5M weekend, the Middle Kingdom total is now $109M, setting the film on a potential path to becoming the biggest animated movie ever there. ...

Kung Fu Panda 3 grabbed the No. 1 market share position in all 15 new plays this weekend. With $28.6M from 8,304 screens in 20 markets overall, the international cume has now been punched up to $219.5M. ...

After five weekends of international play, Fox’s Deadpool now has a touch-worthy $380M offshore cume. The current frame was worth $11.3M on 6,097 screens in 61 markets. ...

Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip: $1.35M weekend; $145.8M international cume. ...

Other recent feature animation releases: The Peanuts Movie's worldwide gross was $246,185,065, with the majority of the take coming from domestic release. American oriented long-form cartoons tend to do less well abroad than pictures not set in the United States, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Zootopia being prime examples.

(Another example would be Hotel Transylvania 2 which made 64% of its $469,236,793 worldwide accumulations abroad).