Weekend Box Office: Talking Cat No Match for The Jungle Book

Of the three new wide releases this week, it was the one with the talking kitten that fared best, but even that movie's performance wasn't enough to come close to dethroning the reigning champion. Disney's The Jungle Book stayed on top of the box-office chart for a third week in a row.

Keanu, the talking-cat comedy from comic duo Key and Peele was on a pace to take in roughly $10 million for the weekend as of late Saturday. That's not a terrible beginning for movie that only cost a reported $15 million to make, but it was well behind the most optimistic predictions that had the comedy bringing in closer to $20 million. Still, it's enough to earn second place for the weekend.

Mother's Day, the ensemble comedy from director Garry Marshall, didn't generate much interest in moviegoers. Its total take by the end of the weekend will come in well under $10 million, and the film will probably settle into fourth place on the weekend chart.

The week's final new release, the animated Ratchet & Clank, will end up with something less than $4 million and rank somewhere near the bottom of the top ten with The Boss and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The week's top movie is, once again, The Jungle Book, which pulled in another $40 million over the weekend. The rest of the top five consists of hold-overs The Huntsman Winter's War and Barbershop: The Next Cut.