’Zootopia’ tramples rivals to top box office

LOS ANGELES: “Zootopia” retained its position at the top of the North American box office at the weekend, raking in $38 million to surge beyond $200 million since its debut, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The animated Disney film about intrepid rabbit police officer Judy Hopps, who works with a fox to solve a crime in the Zootopia animal kingdom, easily saw off the opening of “The Divergent Series: Allegiant,” according to estimates from industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.
“Zootopia” had surpassed the 2013 Disney blockbuster “Frozen” on its opening weekend on March 4-6 and has a total $201.8 million in its three weeks at the movies.
“Allegiant,” the latest in a series of films based on the action-adventure novels by the American author Veronica Roth, has had lukewarm reviews and made $29.1 million from Friday to Sunday on its debut in cinemas. Third in the box-office standings was another new entrant, “Miracles from Heaven,” a drama about a young girl suffering from a rare digestive disorder who finds herself miraculously cured.
It pulled in $15 million at the box office, relegating low-budget horror flick “10 Cloverfield Lane” into fourth ($12.5 million).