Resistance is futile – Captain America-Civil War continues to rule the North American box office. Even with a 59% drop in its second week on domestic screens, the Marvel/Disney mask-and-spandex rivalry epic has amassed $72.5 million for a $295.8 million cume. The Civil War domestic take already has surpassed the lifetime cumes of Captain America ($177 million), Ant-Man ($180 million), Thor ($181 million), Thor: The Dark World ($206 million) and Captain America: Winter Soldier ($259.7 million).

Disney, by the way, has no plans to relinquish the heights of the North American box office – The Jungle Book is up on the number two spot with a $17.7 million take for a $311.7 million domestic cume.

On a completely different scale, this week's newcomer, Sony’s Money Monster, surpassed the studio's expectations. Its campaign focused on its superstar power – Jodie Foster in the director chair, George Clooney and Julia Roberts leading an A-list cast – and the prestige of a Cannes premiere to target a more mature audience. And it worked: the action thriller, which follows, almost in real time, the kidnapping of a popular TV financial showman (Clooney) by a vengeful viewer (Jack O’Connell) who lost all his savings thanks to his advice, came in third place with $15 million, more than comfortably on track to reach the studio’s domestic goal of a $55 million final take.

Internationally this week’s box office story is a bit different. Civil War is still king with an $84.2 take from 56 markets but the second place belongs to Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie. Opening ahead of the U.S. in 74 territories, the 3-D animated feature inspired by the immensely popular mobile game came in second overseas with $43 million. An aggressive promotion in Cannes on the eve of the festival added fuel to the international release – the Rovio co-production claimed the number one spot in 37 markets, including key countries such as the UK, Germany, Russia, Brazil and Mexico. Voiced by Josh Gad, Jason Sudeikis, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tituss Burgess, Sean Penn, Bill Hader and others in the English version, The Angry Birds Movie is set on an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds who suddenly get challenged by mysterious green pigs.

The third spot overseas belongs to a massive success in one single country: Korea, where the Fox International Productions mystery thriller The Wailing broke the record for the studio’s biggest opening weekend of all time in the market, with $16.8 million from 1,467 screens. Wailing is being shown in Cannes this week, in competition- and has been extremely well received.

Back in North America some specialty releases fared well. The Darkness, BlumhouseTilt’s most recent offering in its strong genre, horror, scored $5.1 million in spite of a dismal low C grade on CinemaScore.

Two even smaller openings turned out to be positive surprises: A24’s The Lobster, playing in four locations in Los Angeles and New York, earned more than $47 k per theater to a robust total of overt $188 k. The quirky social-fiction about a dystopian society where being single is a crime is Greek director Yorkos Lanthimos’ first English language film, and it was a hit at last year’s Cannes. Amazon/Roadside Attractions’ joint release of Jane Austen period drama Love & Friendship, a Sundance hit directed by Whit Stillman, scored in four locations with $33,187 per theater – also one of the year’s highest – to a total of $133 k. Expansions are planned for both this coming week.

Next week we’ll keep an eye on these limited releases as they expand, and track Angry Birds’ performance stateside. Other key releases are Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe – a Cannes special screening- and the comedy Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.

Download this week's box office chart:  worldwide_weekend_estimates_may_15_2016.pdf