A little under a year ago, I wrote about discourse in the industry that the future of Hollywood’s fortunes in China would become clearer once two of the most anticipated studio titles of late 2025 release in the world’s second biggest box office market. Now, here we are on the precipice of Walt Disney Animation’s…
Refresh for latest… It was only a matter of time, and what a time it is. After making record-breaking waves in Japan this summer, and rolling out in staggered fashion elsewhere, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle finally reached a big suite of overseas markets, and the U.S., this weekend via Sony/Crunchyroll. The latter…
Refresh for latest…: Two major global milestones were crossed this weekend as Warner Bros/DC’s Superman passed the six-century mark — at $604.5M through Sunday — and Apple Original Films’ F1, via WB, also pushed the needle past $600M, reaching $603.4M through today. It’s notable that Superman is seeing the majority of its money coming from…
SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Marvel/Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps has come in with an estimated $218M global opening. While this is lower than where we saw it yesterday, it remains above the pre-weekend projection, both worldwide and in terms of international box office. The latter landed at $100M, the top end of our…
SATURDAY UPDATE: On Friday, Warner Bros/DC’s Superman added another $21.5M from 78 international box office markets. That brings the offshore flying cume to $40M through Friday. Globally, with Friday’s domestic count, the worldwide running total is $96.5M. While we still have Saturday and Sunday to come overseas, what’s clear here is that domestic is leaning…
FRIDAY UPDATE: With another big day spent gobbling up turnstile action, Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Rebirth has topped the century mark globally, putting $104.6M in its powerful maw through Thursday worldwide. The Thursday tally in 70 overseas markets was $22.3M, lifting the running international box office cume to $48.8M. Today notably adds France and India to…