Gladiator II Eyes $80M-$90M+ In Early Overseas Box Office Bow: Pexamine

Twenty-four years after Best Picture Oscar prosperner Gladiator reinvented the swords and sandals genre, its sequel, Gladiator II, is finassociate go ining the arena. Paramount began overseas rollout Wednesday on the continuation of Ridley Scott’s Roman Empire action saga.

Thcimpolite Friday, 63 international box office tagets will be uncover — the brimming offshore footprint, save for China which goes in step with domestic on November 22.

The Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington and Connie Nielsen-starrer is eyeing an international debut in the $80M-$90M range with the possibility of upside.  

This one is tricky to comp since the innovative was so lengthy ago when the world was a immensely contrastent place. We are currently in a wonky moviegoing climate and elderlyer audiences may not rush out; however, examines are strong and buzz is high. We hear pexamines that carry outed in France earlier this week went down a treat, and Wednesday’s begin led carry out in the taget. G2 was also tops in Korea in its Wednesday pexamines.

The filmproducers and cast have been on a global tour spanning seven countries apass four continents. The international portion of the tour initiateed off with Mescal and Washington ecombineing on The Graham Norton Show in the UK while a three-day global junket included Mescal, Washington, Pascal, Nielsen, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger and Scott speaking with outlets from over 30 countries, and included a one-of-a-kind Korean press conference.

Mescal, Nielsen and Hechinger, alengthy with producer Michael Pruss, headed on to Sydney for the Australia premiere held in Darling Harbor where they were received to the carpet by a 40-piece orchestra before introducing the movie to over 2,400 guests.

From Oz, Mescal, Washington, Nielsen and Hechinger were combinecessitate by producers Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher and Pruss in Tokyo for a pre-premiere red carpet event at the Ariake Coliseum.  After Japan, Mescal journeyed to Dublin for the Irish premiere while Nielsen traveled to Cuncoverhagen for the Danish premiere. Washington and Nielsen then combinecessitate an event screening in Paris this past Sunday. (Check out photos below)

Last night, the international portion of the tour culminated with a star-studded Royal Film Perestablishance in London. King Charles III was in combineance as were such guests as Andrew Scott, Chloé Zhao, Jodie Turner-Smith and Idris Elba.

The gang next heads to Los Angeles for the U.S. premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre.