World Box Office

Animation and super heroes (with a sprinkling of fantasy) continue to propel global markets.

WEEKEND FOREIGN BOX OFFICE -- (WORLD TOTALS)

X-Men: Apocalypse -- $55,300,000 -- ($250,800,000

Alice Through The Looking Glass -- $65,000,000 -- ($100,600,000)

The Angry Birds Movie -- $31,800,000 -- ($223,6000,000)

Captain America: Civil War -- $12,500,000 -- $1,107,600,000

Warcraft -- $31,600,000 -- ($31,600,000)

The Jungle Book -- $5,300,000 -- ($877,578,909)

Zootopia -- $4,000,000 -- ($991,474,645) ...

And the trades tell us:

... Alice Through The Looking Glass slid down the rabbithole into 43 material offshore markets for a $65M debut. The result mirrors the opening of last year’s comp, Cinderella, in the same suite of markets and at today’s exchange rates. China was predictably the biggest overseas play with $27.1M, making it the second highest Disney Live Action opening (non-Marvel or Lucasfilm) ever in the Middle Kingdom. ...

Booting up in 20 territories, Warcraft, the adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s juggernaut video game franchise scored $31.6M. Fans rushed out to see it, notably in Russia where the weekend cume was an Orc-sized $10M. Alice, by comparison, grossed $4.6M in Russia this session. ...

With $55.3M from 17,259 screens in 79 international markets, Fox’s latest, X-Men: Apocalypse, brings its cume to $185.8M overseas. Korea was a major debut with $12M from 1,258 screens (including previews). ...

[The Angry Birds Movie added] four new markets this frame, landing $31.8M from over 18,500 screens in 87 total. The offshore cume for the Columbia Pictures/Rovio Animation/Sony Pictures Imageworks adaptation of Rovio’s mobile game franchise is now $157.2M. ...

Zootopia has taken its offshore cume to $655.6M. With a foxy global total of $991.8M, another $1B worldwide grosser looks all but assured. ...

Captain America: Civil War continue to duke it out at the international box office, adding $12.5M in the Disney/Marvel’s film’s 5th offshore weekend. Holds were good in Germany (-33M%), France (-45%) and the UK (-55%). The overseas total is now $730.7M for a $1.108B global cume. ...