‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ Rule the Box Office

According to the AV Club, Lupita Nyong’o, Idris Elba and Giancarlo Esposito’s “The Jungle Book” brought in a whopping $103.6 million and the reviews for the film have been excellent.

Ice Cube, Eve, Nicki Minaj, Common, Anthony Anderson, Cedric The Entertainer and Regina Hall’s “Barbershop: The Next Cut” brought in around $20 million.

AV Club writes:

Finally, the citizens of Earth can emerge from their bunkers as the epic battle of Batman V. Superman V. Melissa McCarthy appears to be coming to a close. Just one week later, a new undisputed king of the Hollywood jungle has arrived: The Jungle Book debuted at No. 1 this weekend with a staggering $103.6 million domestic box-office haul, spurred on by positive reviews—The A.V. Club’s was one of the less rapturous, actually—the A-list voice cast, and some admittedly pretty impressive CGI.

It’s doing even better at the all-important international box office, and is expected to cross the $300 million mark later today. That’s a benchmark another talking-animal movie, Zootopia, crossed this weekend in its fifth week of release. (Could this bode well for Kevin Spacey’s talking cat movie, Nine Lives, due this summer? Probably not, but one can dream.)

The Jungle Book pulled in more than five times the amount of its closest competitor, Barbershop: The Next Cut, which came in at No. 2 with $20 million thanks to the apparently literally ageless appeal of Cedric the Entertainer in old-man makeup. Further down the charts, we have the newly demoted The Boss at No. 3, followed by Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice, which was left crying “Martha” at No. 4 with $9 million, a 61 percent drop from last week.