Refresh for more…No payola going on here, just pure ticket sales around the world. Michael remained atop the box office charts like it was a 1982 Billboard music chart, reclaiming No. 1 in his fourth frame with $83.8M ($26.1M U.S./$57.7M Int’l in 83 territories) for a running global cume of $703.8M ($282.7M U.S./$421M overseas). The respective domestic and international weekend dips of -31% via Lionsgate and -14% via Universal is everything a competing studio can be jealous of. And get this, Japan, which is a bound to be a big grossing territory (Jackson’s finale concert doc This Is It made $57M there), doesn’t open until June 12.
Global Imax screens grossed $5.2M with North America ringing up $2M, as Lionsgate gained them back. Running cume is $60.4M WW for the pic in large format, $30.1M coming from domestic and $30.3M from international.
Both stateside and global, it’s the second No. 1 weekend for Michael.
What was new for the Antoine Fuqua directed movie this weekend? Korea which opened to $4.9M, No. 1 in the market, which is great because U.S. stuff post Covid struggles there. The pic was released on the newly created Culture Day (May 13). Michael posted the highest grossing musical biopic opening of all time as well as the biggest MPA opening of the year in the market, deafening Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Playing on 1,733 screens, it’s the widest release ever there for a musical biopic. Audience reactions are excellent with a 95% CGV Egg score.
Michael remains No. 1 in France ($7.8M, $41.1M), UK & Ireland ($5.7M, $54.6M cume; outgrossed The Devil Wears Prada 2 +52% on Saturday, pic is now Universal’s biggest film of the year to-date), Germany ($5.5M, $27.4M), Netherlands ($2.2M, $10.7M cume), and Spain($2M, $22M cume) as well as Saudi Arabia and UAE. Middle East region added $2.7M for a running $22.6M cume; the entire area 10x more than Bohemian Rhapsody. The King of Pop was No. 2 in Australia ($3.3M behind Devil Wears Prada 2, $23.6M cume) and Brazil ($3M behind Devil 2, $25.4M cume). Italy’s fourth frame for the musical biopic rang up $2.9M with a $25.2M cume with Mexico adding $2.7M for a $26.5M cume.
After three weekends, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has catwalked past the half billion mark with an estimated $546.2M ($175.9M Domestic and $370.3M International). It’s the No. 4 MPA global release so far YTD behind Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Michael and Project Hail Mary. Global third frame was $69M WW ($18M U.S., $50.6M from abroad, -35%).
The Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci sequel remains the top non-local title Italy (now pic’s second highest grossing territory, but still robust fueled by female moviegoers with $34.5M), Australia ($23.4M), Japan ($21.8M), Brazil ($27M) and Mexico ($24.6M) as well as Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Argentina and other smaller Latin American territories. Pic is the No. 2 non-local title in UK (pic’s top grossing territory with $36.9M), France ($21.2M), Germany ($25M), Spain, ($10.5M), China ($14.3M) and Korea as well as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Southern Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
New Line’s Mortal Kombat II is the second highest grossing movie in the franchise at this point time with $101.2M ($62.2M domestic and $39M int’l). This is when compared with the reported $122M global gross of the 1995 pic. Global weekend was $23.4M ($13.4M domestic, $10M abroad from 80 markets). Updated cumes in the top five markets are UK ($3.9M), Mexico ($2.9M), Australia ($2.8M), Brazil ($2.5M) and China ($2.4M).
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