Angry Birds tops box office
Updated | By AFP
"The Angry Birds Movie" hopped to the top of the North American box office over the weekend, booting "Captain America" to second place, according to preliminary industry estimates Sunday.
![Angry Birds](https://turntable.kagiso.io/images/angry_birds.width-800.png)
The 3D animated take on the popular video game features a trio of flightless birds -- Red, Chuck and Bomb -- who take out their anger on an invasion of purple pigs.
The Sony production pulled in an estimated $39 million its first weekend in North American theaters, topping last week's box office leader, "Captain America: Civil War," according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.
That action-packed blockbuster and its cast of Marvel superheroes raked in another $33.1 million over the weekend for a cumulative total of $347.4 million after just three weeks in theaters.
Third place went to new-on-the-block "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," a comedy starring Seth Rogan, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron that scored $21.8 million its first weekend out.
A sequel to 2014 hit "Neighbors," it flips that movie's premise by having unruly sorority sisters -- instead of frat brothers -- turn the lives of their happily married neighbors upside down.
"The Nice Guys," a detective mystery starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, came in fourth on its debut weekend with a box office take of $11.3 million.
Gosling and Crowe play a private eye and a hired enforcer on the hunt for a missing woman.
"The Jungle Book," a remake of the Disney animated classic, slipped to fifth place its fifth week in theaters, taking in $11 million for a cumulative total of $327.5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
Third place went to new-on-the-block "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," a comedy starring Seth Rogan, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron that scored $21.8 million its first weekend out.
A sequel to 2014 hit "Neighbors," it flips that movie's premise by having unruly sorority sisters -- instead of frat brothers -- turn the lives of their happily married neighbors upside down.
"The Nice Guys," a detective mystery starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, came in fourth on its debut weekend with a box office take of $11.3 million.
Gosling and Crowe play a private eye and a hired enforcer on the hunt for a missing woman.
"The Jungle Book," a remake of the Disney animated classic, slipped to fifth place its fifth week in theaters, taking in $11 million for a cumulative total of $327.5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
-- "Money Monster" ($7 million)
-- "The Darkness" ($2.4 million)
-- "Zootopia" ($1.7 million)
-- "The Huntsman: Winter's War" ($1.2 million)
-- "Mother's Day" ($1.1 million)
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