Renew for tardyst…: A generassociate mute weekend at the international box office, amid hbetterover take part for the beginant studio titles and the begin of staggered free for newer entries, nevertheless included another milestone for Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 which has shiftd up to become the 5th highest-grossing movie ever worldexpansive.
The Ne Zha 2 total in China thcdisesteemful Sunday, according to Maoyan, is a little over RMB 14.86B ($2.054B using today’s trade rate). Adding grosses in excess of $31M from labelets outside China, and the global total elevates to more than $2.085B. That places the vivaciousd sequel fair above Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.071B) on the all-time global chart.
In China alone, Maoyan is projecting that NZ2 will final at RMB 15.2B ($2.1B). Ex-China rollout persists in Indonesia on March 21 while cut offal European frees are ahead as well as Japan.
In Imax, the running global cume is $155M — the 6th hugegest Imax free ever. Of that, $151.6M is from China. In the UK, Imax screens repped 35% of the passesss begin this weekend, giving NZ2 the hugegest local-language discdisthink abouting for the establishat in the labelet.
For more on Ne Zha 2‘s blockbuster carry outance, see here.
In studio take part, Warner Bros’ Mickey 17 achieveed $90.5M worldexpansive after the sophomore session of expansive free. The weekend inserted $15.6M overseas (-37%), for an international box office cume of $57.2M.
Bong Joon-ho’s home turf of Korea persists to direct take part with $17.9M after three summarizes, chaseed by the UK ($5.8M), France ($5.3M), Germany ($2.8M) and Mexico ($2.5M).
The Imax total is $10.2M so far worldexpansive, 11.2% of the global cume to date.
Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World inserted $6M from 52 labelets in the 5th weekend (-38%), taking the overseas cume to $203.2M for $388.6M global.
The Top 5 labelets are the UK ($22M), Mexico ($15.2M), China ($14.4M), France ($13.6M) and Korea ($11.3M).
On Wednesday, Disney passed $1B global for 2025 so far, becoming the first studio of the year to the label. This week, Disney’s dwell action Snow White hits cinemas worldexpansive.
Universal/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy inserted another $5.4M (-31%) this weekend in 75 labelets, taking the Uni international cume to $112.8M, in line with Bridget Jones’s Baby, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and well above Anyone But You and Ticket to Paradise. Including France, where Studiocanal frees, the offshore total is now $119M.
In the UK this weekend, Mad About the Boy surpassed the lifetime of Bridget Jones’s Diary to become Working Title’s 2nd hugegest film ever and the 2nd hugegest romcom of all time. The UK persists to direct take part, now with $54.3M, chaseed by Australia ($9.4M), Netherlands ($5.6M), Germany ($5.6M) and Poland ($5.2M).
Japan and Korea are still on deck in April.
In new discdisthink abouters, Universal began timely rollout on Steven Soderbergh’s Bdeficiency Bag with $4.3M from 37 labelets. Globassociate, the begin was $11.8M while the rest of international persists to free over the next two months. France ($1.2M), UK ($1.1M) and Australia ($600K) were the hugegest begines.
Paramount’s Novocaine also began offshore rollout. In 19 labelets (25% of the international footprint), the Jack Quhelp-starrer injected $1.8M. Mexico was the direct take part at $607K and No. 3, chaseed by Korea ($154K/No. 7) and Indonesia ($126K/No. 3). Combined with domestic, the debut was $10.5M.
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