After spending the last three weeks taking in Deadpool's garrulous antics the world pricked up their ears and brought the kids out to see Disney’s latest box-office triumph, Zootopia. After three strong weeks in a number of foreign territories, 2016's latest blockbuster finally launched in the US on March 4, earning $73.7 million and a solid number one ranking in its domestic debut. Zootopia comes from co-directors Byron Howard and Richard Moore, and features the vocal talents of Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Octavia Spencer and Tommy Chong, among others. Ginnifer's charter is officer Judy Hopps, the first rabbit to graduate from the Zootopia Police Academy.  With her partner Nick Wilde, a fox voiced by Jason Bateman, she has to apprehend a gang who uses a psychotropic flower to make the normally civilized animal residents of Zootopia go “wild.”

After earning $96.4 million in its previous three weeks of international engagements this animal kingdom caper added $63.4 million from its fourth leg overseas. It jumped into China this weekend with $24 million, the biggest ever opening for Disney in the country, and the second biggest animated launch after Kung Fu Panda 3. It scored another record opening for the studio in Russia, where it made $7.9 million, and notched the same record in Germany with $6.2 million. Now in its fourth week of a staggered release in global theatres, Zootopia has a worldwide cumulative of $232.5 million.

Disney may have taken the combined chart by a large margin, but the largest single market winner was producer Raymond Wong's Hong Kong action thriller Ip Man 3. The third installment in a trilogy about Ip Man, the Wing Chun Grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee and helped to spread the martial arts into the West, sees series director Wilson Yip return for the third installment. Star Donnie Yen plays an older Yip Man, now living in Hong Kong after having gained fame for his Kung Fu prowess and (fictionalized) battles against corrupt Japanese businessmen in mainland China during the Second World War. Here, he must train a new generation of students and take down a criminal-backed real estate developer with deep Triad connections, played by Mike Tyson. Danny Chan plays Ip Man's star student, Bruce Lee. The film premiered at Cannes and opened on Christmas Day in Hong Kong, taking a long hiatus before its $75 million Chinese debut this weekend.

Another action film, Gramercy Productions and Millennium Films' London Has Fallen, made its debut this weekend, though it met with considerably less fan fare. The sequel to 2013's surprise hit Olympus Has Fallen sees Gerard Butler return as secret service agent Mike Banning. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself in hot water again after a terrorist group crashes a state visit to London, blowing up landmarks and sending the city into chaos. Butler faces incredible odds in both stopping the plot and keeping his President alive. London earned $21.7 million in the US, good for second place. Critics were harsh on the film though it struck a chord with audiences and earned an A- Cinemascore. The action picture made $12 million overseas in 22 markets, where Lionsgate has distribution rights.

Tina Fey's Afghan comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot opened to $7.6 million at home, well below industry expectations, while Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups opened to a lackluster $56.6k in 4 theatres, earning a $14.1k per-theatre average. The film, which stars Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett, tells the story of a writer in Los Angeles struggling to find his voice and inspiration.

Deadpool, meanwhile, crossed $300 million domestic and is zeroing in on a $700 million global cume.

Next week we'll keep up with Zootopia and see how it does against sci-fi thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane, Sacha Baron Cohen action comedy The Brothers Grimsby, and Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul spy flick Eye in the Sky.