‘The Jungle Book’ Established a New Record, No Less Success than 'Captain America'

'The Jungle Book' seems to have broken all records in the United States. The movie remains the most popular movie continuously for three weekends, and is doing no less than the recently released Captain America: Civil War.

The Jungle Book has done much better on the third weekend than what a majority of movie critics had predicted it would. During the last weekend, the movie made $43.714 million, according to reports. This raises the total earning of the movie makers from the theatres in the US to $253.73 million, an amount collected in mere 17 days of time.

If that was not enough, the Walt Disney blockbuster has become the "sixth biggest third-weekend box office gross of all time." While The Jungle Book was able to surpass Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Dark Knight sequels, it failed to reach Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic Park, Avatar and The Avengers.

The fact that the movie experienced the smallest drop in terms of business from the second weekend is a record in itself. However, it is unlikely that The Jungle Book would hit the $400 million mark, despite the fact that all other firms with a busy third-weekend were able to reach that mark, including Spider-Man that stopped at $403 million mark.

Spider-Man made approximately $285 million on Day 17, a little more than what The Jungle Book made. However, the movie is still ahead of Zootopia and other animated movies such as Inside Out, which was released by Pixar in 2015.

On the other hand, Minions made almost $115 million on its weekend. It reached $263 million by the third weekend, nearly $9 million more than The Jungle Book. While, Minions stopped at $336 million, it is yet to be seen where the Jon Favreau blockbuster would stop.