Box Office: Apr. 15-17, 2016: THE JUNGLE BOOK, BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT, THE BOSS

Box Office Apr. 15-17, 2016. The Jungle Book premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $103.5 Million. Barbershop: The Next Cut premiered in Second Place with $20.2 Million. The Boss was Third with $10.1 Million. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was Fourth with $9 Million for $311.3 Million so far. Zootopia was Fifth with $8.2 Million for $307.4 Million so far. Criminal (which premiered this weekend), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Miracles from Heaven, God’s Not Dead 2, and Eye in the Sky rounded out the top ten respectively.

The Jungle Book is a 2016 American live-action/computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau from a screenplay by Justin Marks and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s eponymous collective works, the film is a live action and CGI-incorporated remake of Walt Disney’s 1967 animated film of the same name, and is the third overall Disney adaption, along with both the 1967 and the 1994 film of the same name.

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The film stars and introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan, and features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken.

Barbershop: The Next Cut is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Malcolm D. Lee. It is the fourth film in the Barbershop film series and stars an ensemble cast, including Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Troy Garity. Anthony Anderson makes his return from the original film as J.D. New cast members includes Regina Hall, Nicki Minaj, Common, J.B. Smoove, Tyga and Deon Cole.

Criminal is a 2016 American action thriller drama film directed by Ariel Vromen and written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. The film is about an ex-con who is implanted with a dead CIA agent’s memories to finish an assignment. The film stars Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman and Tommy Lee Jones.

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