Your Worldwide Box Office

Animation and super heroes seems to have the global film market by the short hairs.

WEEKEND FOREIGN BOX OFFICE -- (WORLD TOTALS

X-Men -- $103,300,000 -- ($103,300,000)

The Angry Birds Movie -- $55,500,000 -- ($151,000,000)

Captain America: Civil War -- $30,700,000 -- (1,053,500,000)

The Jungle Book -- $7,300,000 -- ($857,700,000)

Zootpia -- $4,700,000 -- ($981,700,000) ....

It's good to note that all of the above are totally animated or have large chunks of animation in them. This is the current state of commercial box office. Our fine entertainment conglomerates need lots of animators and technical directors/compositors and surfacers and lighters to get their blockbuster movies made. And the digital trade papers tell us:

... The Angry Birds Movie nested the top spot in 48 markets chirping an overall second weekend of $55.5M. That flies the Rovio movie’s overseas cume to $112M. Together with its $37M-$39M stateside bow, Angry Birds counts a global tally of $149M-$151M. ...

Opening in 64% of the international marketplace, the latest installment in the X-Men franchise blasted off with $103.3M to best the X-Men Apocalypse debut of X-Men: Days Of Future Past in the same suite of 75 markets and at today’s exchange rates. ...

The feature directorial debut of directors of Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly collected $55.5M from a total of 24,000 screens in 83 markets. Angry Birds flew into nine new trees abroad including China, Korea and the Netherlands. In the Middle Kingdom, Angry Birds owned the best opening day so far this year for an animated pic import, and drew a total weekend of $29.2M from 12,000 screens, outstripping the debuts of Zootopia (+24%), Big Hero 6 (+87%) and Inside Out(+265%). ...

The Jungle Book held strong with a $7.4M weekend which swings the international cume to $530.2M and the global total to $857.7M. Currently playing in 47 material markets, it still has Korea and Japan to come. China, where the run is over, leads markets with $150.1M . ...

Picking up $4.7M in its 15th (!) frame, Zootopia’s global gross has reached $981.8M. That takes it past Despicable Me 2 ($970.8M) to become the fourth biggest animated release ever. ...