‘Mufasa’ Still Big Cat With $627M To Date In 6th Weekend As Global Leader; ‘Sonic 3’ Nears $450M WW – International Box Office
UPDATED: Still a lot of holdover business in the early part of the year at the international box office as we ride out late-2024 releases. Within that, Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King – which, recall, initially started softer than expected – now leads a global weekend for the 6th time in a row.
Meanwhile, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is still tearing up records. After becoming the biggest of the franchise globally last weekend, it’s now tops for the trilogy overseas.
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Starting with Mufasa, the worldwide total to date is $626.7M, while the running international cume is $405.6M. The Imax total is $35.3M global.
Overseas, Mufasa added $15.4M this session (-29%) and is still the No. 1 non-local film in France, Germany, Spain, Brazil and the Latin American region overall as well as many smaller markets.
The Top 5 markets to date are: France ($38.1M), UK ($34.7M), Mexico ($28.3M), Germany ($27.8M) and Italy ($23.1M).
Sonic the Hedgehog 3, meanwhile, added another $10.6M this frame, taking its offshore cume to $220.5M – the best of the franchise — and global to $446.6M. No wonder Par announced a Sonic 4 earlier this week.
Top 5 here on S3 are: UK ($28.9M), Mexico ($21.1M), France ($18.4M), Australia ($17.1M) and Brazil ($12.3M).
Before he travels to the U.S., Studiocanal’s Paddington in Peru is currently in 35 offshore markets via Sony (for 43 total). The weekend combined added $6.3M for an international cume of $83M.
And, after sailing past the $1B mark globally last weekend, Disney’s Moana 2 added another $5.8M internationally (-32%) to lift the overseas cume to $576M and worldwide to $1.026B. With the most recent business, the sequel becomes the No. 3 Walt Disney Animation Studios all-time global release and the 11th overall, topping Zootopia ($1,025.5M). It will soon pass both Finding Dory ($1,029M) and Despicable Me 3 ($1.035B) to become the No. 9 animated release ever on a worldwide basis.
Top 5 on Moana 2 are: France ($61.8M), UK ($51.2M), Germany ($44M), Australia ($31.8M) and Japan ($31.6M).
As for some of the studio specialty movies with multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations, Focus’ Nosferatu added $4.2M in 65 overseas markets for an international cume of $73.2M and $166.4M global. Robert Eggers’ film has become Universal’s biggest horror title ever in the UK at $14.7M. The rest of the Top 5 is Mexico ($7.8M), Germany ($5.3M), Spain ($5.1M) and Italy ($5.1M).
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist started play in nine offshore markets via UPI, picking up $2.2M which is well above The Holdovers and Tar and more than double Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest and Triangle of Sadness in like-for-likes.
Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown is scheduled in major international markets across this month and next. In the UK, it held the No. 1 spot this frame and added strong openings in Italy, Australia and a few other smaller markets for a running estimated offshore total of $11.2M. The global total to date is $67M.
This coming week ushers in the Lunar New Year with a host of films in China, including the Filmed for Imax title Operation Hadal from Bona, Alibaba’s Creation of the Gods 2, Enlight’s Ne Zha 2, Maoyan’s Detective Chinatown 1900 and China Film Group’s Legend of the Condor Heroes.
MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE
*Flight Risk (LGF): $4.2M intl weekend (39 markets); $4.2M intl cume/$16.2M global
Wolf Man (UNI): $3.6M intl weekend (75 markets); $9.9M intl cume/$27.7M global
*The Three Investigators – Carpathian Dog (SNY): $3M intl weekend (4 markets); $3M intl cume
Conclave (FNE): $2.9M intl weekend (36 markets); $54.3M intl cume/$86.2M global
Wicked (UNI): $2.5M intl weekend (81 markets); $248.2M intl cume/$717M global
I’m Still Here (SNY): $1.2M intl weekend (2 markets); $15M intl cume
Gladiator II (PAR): $770K intl weekend (48 markets); $288.1M intl cume/ $460.5M global
Anora (UNI): $491K intl weekend (48 markets); $11.8M intl cume (UPI only)/$34.6M global
Better Man (PAR): $290K intl weekend (France only); $880K France cume/$17.2M global
*Dog Man (UNI): $282K intl weekend (1 market); $282K intl cume
*Denotes new
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