Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ Tops North American Box Office With USD 73.7M

Walt Disney Animation Studios witnesses a wonderful start of its 3D animated film “Zootopia” this weekend.

“Zootopia” opened with an estimated USD 73.7 million in North American ticket sales this weekend from 3,827 theaters. That’s better than the previous best-selling feature cartoon from Disney, 2013’s “Frozen” and its USD 67.4 million opening weekend, according to the movie box office watcher website comScore.

Compared to the most recent film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, “Zootopia” opened an impressive 31 percent ahead of the USD 56.2 million start of 2014’s “Big Hero 6”.

The audience for “Zootopia” skewed towards female moviegoers which is up to 53 percent and towards moviegoers 25 years and younger which is up to 54 percent. Family audiences represented 73 percent of the film’s overall audience.

“Zootopia” received an “A” rating from opening day audiences on CinemaScore and currently maintains a 98 percent positive score from critics on RottenTomatoes.

The R-rated action movie “London Has Fallen” was in second place for the Friday-through Sunday period, with a USD 21.7 million ticket sales sum.

And the R-rated thriller “Deadpool” had another good weekend, with USD 16.4 million on its third weekend of exhibition. The film has grossed USD 311.2 million over 24 days of showings.

Paramount’s “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” debuted in fourth place with an estimated USD 7.6 million. The R-rated comedy starring Tina Fey opened below expectations and registered one of the lower debuts of a wide release staring Fey to date.

Rounding out the rest top 10 movies this weekend at theaters in the United States and Canada were “Gods Of Egypt” (USD 5 million), “Risen” (USD 3.9 million), “Kung Fu Panda 3” (USD 3.5 million), “The Revenant” (USD 3.3 million), “Eddie The Eagle” (USD 3.1 million) and “The Witch” (USD 2.5 million). (PNA/Xinhua) JBP/EBP