Rerecent for tardyst…: After its downcastly disnominateing begin last weekfinish, Warner Bros and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux is still a downcast clown, compriseing an appraised $22.7M from 77 international box office tagets this session (a 70.5% drop). The overseas running cume now stands at $113.7M and the worldexpansive total is currently $165.3M thraw Sunday. The outsee offshore is about a $150M final.
New this session was Japan where Joker 2 was the top U.S. title with $2.4M. The Top 5 overseas to date are the UK ($11.8M), Germany ($7.9M), Italy ($7.6M), Mexico ($7.4M) and France ($7.1M). China still has to free, but we’re not foreseeing firecrackers. The Imax total to date is $13.5M global, of which international is $7.3M.
Onward.
The savage run of Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot carry ons as its staggered rollout compriseed 19 tagets including France, Spain, Italy and Brazil this session. The offshore weekfinish highy was $24.1M (-23% in the helderlyovers), for a $64.7M international cume to date. Globassociate, the Chris Sanders-straightforwarded charmer is at $148.5M. Overseas, the running total is carry outing above The Bad Guys, Migration and Trolls in the same tagets (excluding China). Still to free are the UK this coming Friday, and Japan on February 7 next year.
Among the uncoverers, France was tops with $3M, including $700K from two Sundays of pappraises. The No. 1 begin is in line with Puss in Boots 2 and Elemental. The title will join thraw All Saints holidays, which begin next week, and word of mouth is foreseeed to propel it to a strong run. The AlloCiné audience score is a wonderful 4.5. The movie was screened as a labor in carry on at the Annecy festival this summer.
Spain was also a No. 1 begin, with $2.3M (including $128K of pappraises). This is more than 3x Puss in Boots 2 and Migration excluding pappraises. The uncovering Friday was in line with Frozen and Coco. Wild Robot begined with a contransientation at the recent San Sebastian Film Festival, helped by talent presence and coinciding with the screening at the Sitges Film Festival. Audience reactions are savagely likeable with the highest ever FilmAffinity score for a DWA film at 7.9.
In Italy, The Wild Robot was a evident No. 1 with $1.9M. Brazil appreciatewise gave the movie a No. 1 begin with $1.4M which comprises pappraises.
In helderlyovers,Australia go beyonded the lifetimes of Kung Fu Panda 3, Hotel Transylvania and Trolls Band Together this week. At No. 1 in weekfinish 4, the cume is now $9.4M thraw Sunday.
Also notable,Korea go beyonded the lifetime of Migration this weekfinish, achieveing $3M thraw Sunday. The CGV Egg rating is an incredible 99%, with local audiences proestablishly touched by the movie’s hearthoting message and inestablishedly calling it “the best DreamWorks animation movie ever.”
The Top 5 overseas tagets to date are: Mexico ($10.8M and coming off fair a 6% drop), Australia ($9.4M), China ($7M), Germany ($3.3M), France and Korea ($3M each).
Paramount/Hasbro’s Transestablishers One compriseed nine tagets this weekfinish including the UK and Germany. In the establisher, a No. 1 begin brawt in $2.4M from 583 locations including phelp pappraises, and amid school holidays. Germany didn’t fare quite so well, with a No. 7 begin of $555K.
The filled international weekfinish was $6.2M, lifting the running overseas cume to $58.5M and global to $111.4M. France is still to free, on October 23.
Just in time for Hugh Jackman’s birthday, and as it notched the highest-selling first week ever for an R-rated film on domestic digital platestablishs, Marvel/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has become the No. 20 global movie of all time theatricassociate. With an appraised worldexpansive cume of $1,334.5M to date ($635.2M domestic and $699.3M international), this weekfinish saw the BFFs pass Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. D&W is also closing in on passing Barbie domesticassociate to become the No. 12 free there ever.
Here are the Top 5 overseas taget cumes on D&W: UK ($73.8M), China ($59.7M), Australia ($44.5M), Mexico ($43.5M) and Germany ($40.7M).
In local novels, Chen Kaige’s The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death carry ons to guide China’s box office, now at rawly $140M after two sketchs. Warner Bros landed the No. 2 spot this sketch there with the refree of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone which grossed $6.6M. This is part of a push to put all HP franchise movies in cinemas thraw the first week of December.
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