Box Office At The End Of The Third

We're speaking of the third quarter of this year:

TOP GROSSERS OF '16

1 Captain America: Civil War -- $1,152.8m

2 Zootopia -- $1,023.6m

3 Finding Dory -- $970.1m

4 The Jungle Book (2016) -- $965.8m

5 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice -- $873.3m

6 The Secret Life of Pets -- $821.8m

7 Deadpool -- $782.6m

8 Suicide Squad -- $731.8m

9 The Mermaid (Mei ren yu) -- $553.8m

10 X-Men: Apocalypse -- $543.6m

11 Kung Fu Panda 3 -- $519.9m

What's startling about the motion pictures above is that all but one (The Mermaid) is an animated feature or super hero movie layered with animated visual effects.

Think about this. In the history of moviemaking, animation has never been so dominant. Animated features sit at #2, #3, #4, #6, and #11. VFX extravaganzas occupy most of the rest.