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Fifth is X-Men: Apocalypse, which continues to get pasted in the weekend drop department. This weekend, the Fox release earned only $10.0 million, which gives it a decline of 56%, after falling 65% last weekend. While it won’t be the lowest earning X-Men film, it will be close. It will get by X-Men: First Class (ironically the best X-Men film is the franchise’s lowest earner) at $146 million, but will have to work to get by the original’s $156 million, which it earned in 2000. So far, X-men Apocalypse has pulled in $136.37 million domestically, and (thankfully for Fox) over $300 million from overseas theaters.

Sixth is last weekend’s slight surprise, Me Before You, and unsurprisingly this weekend it tanks, much like Fault in our Stars, which plunged 69% in its second session after opening to $48 million. Me Before You, after opening to $18.7 million, dropped 51% to $9.21 million this weekend giving us a sign it’s heading for a quick exit. Regardless, this is going to be a winner for Warner Bros. and MGM, as it cost only $20 million to make and has earned $36.82 million at the domestic box office already. Overseas, it had also picked up another $15 million prior to the start of the weekend.

The Angry Birds Movie takes the seventh spot, earning $6.7 million. It fell 34%, and continues to work toward a respectable domestic gross. It has picked up $98.17 million in North America thus far, and will cross that $100 million mark next weekend. Overseas, the total is approaching $200 million, so all will be fine financially for this $73 million film.

Alice Through The Looking Glass is eighth, as it tries to quietly slip away. Alice earned only $5.54 million this weekend, giving it a drop of 51%, following a 58% decline the weekend before. The $170 million Disney film has now earned only $62.43 million on the domestic side, and has $125 million on the overseas side, so it looks like Disney will take at least a $250 million writedown on this one.

Ninth is Captain America: Civil War, which is spending its sixth weekend in the top ten. This time, Cap and his former friends pulled in $4.3 million, dropping 45% from last weekend. Civil War has now picked up $396.86 million, and will be seeing $400 million shortly. Overseas, it’s also a monster, picking up almost $750 million.

Tenth is The Jungle Book, which looks to spend its last weekend in the top ten over its ninth weekend of release. The Jungle Book earned $2.72 in weekend nine, dropping 39%, but moving its domestic take up to $352.65 million. That in turn pushes the worldwide gross beyond the $900 million mark, and the question now is if it can get to $1 billion, like Disney has with Zootopia and Captain America. It has one more market to open in – Japan – but it will likely need $90 million from that country alone to hit the $1 billion worldwide mark.

Overall, the box office was miles away from last year, as one year ago today, Universal was celebrating a $208 million opening frame for Jurassic World. This weekend, the top 12 continued to struggle, earning $145.24 million. That’s better than the last few non-Memorial Day weekends, going back to Captain America: Civil War. Next weekend, things are going to get better really fast. Disney and Pixar open Finding Dory next weekend. It’s getting a ton of love from critics and should have a $100 million plus opening weekend. The other opener is Central Intelligence, which is a bit more of a wild card, but stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson, so anything could happen.

Top Weekend Box Office for 6/10/16-6/12/16 (Estimates)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	The Conjuring 2	Warner Bros.	$40,350,000	New	$40,350,000
2	Warcraft	Universal	$24,355,975	New	$24,355,975
3	Now You See Me 2	Lionsgate	$23,025,000	New	$23,025,000
4	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Paramount	$14,800,000	-58%	$61,040,000
5	X-men: Apocalypse	Fox	$10,000,000	-56%	$136,374,000
6	Me Before You	Warner Bros.	$9,210,000	-51%	$36,823,000
7	The Angry Birds Movie	Sony	$6,700,000	-34%	$98,170,000
8	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Disney	$5,544,821	-51%	$62,437,432
9	Captain America: Civil War	Disney	$4,300,195	-45%	$396,857,343
10	The Jungle Book	Disney	$2,721,250	-39%	$352,649,939
11	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Universal	$2,135,415	-56%	$53,103,640
12	The Nice Guys	Warner Bros.	$2,100,000	-39%	$32,642,000
	Also Opening/Notables
	Te3n	Reliance	$284,040	New	$284,040
	Genius	Warner Bros.	$100,000	New	$100,000
	De Palma	A24	$30,856	New	$30,856
	The Music of Strangers	The Orchard	$30,083	New	$30,083
	Tikkun	Kino Lorber	$3,730	New	$3,730
	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Universal	$1,715,505	-63%	$8,346,795
	The Wailing	Well Go Usa	$133,941	-39%	$551,858
	The Witness	Filmrise	$15,000	3%	$35,094
	Weiner	IFC Films	$175,000	-19%	$850,000
	Maggie's Plan	Sony Classics	$690,592	384%	$1,138,363
	Love & Friendship	Roadside Attractions	$1,500,000	-30%	$9,500,000
	The Lobster	A24	$991,984	-32%	$5,557,045
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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