Box Office: 'Rio 2' Beats 'Captain America: Winter Soldier' With $12 Million Friday — hollywoodreporter.com

Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Saldanha's new family film Rio 2 flew to the top of the Friday box office with $12 million from 3,938 theaters, enough to beat holdover Captain America: The Winter Soldier and putting the 3D animated film on course for a strong $45 million domestic debut. The Fox Animation and Blue Sky sequel, returning Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway in the voice leads and earning an A CinemaScore across demos, opens exactly three years after the first movie took in $39 million on its first weekend domestically.

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