Refresh for updates: The plumbers continue to reign supreme around the world with an $83.2M global weekend ($35M dom, $48.2M overseas at 82 territories) taking Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s global running cume to $747.4M ($355.2M domestic, $392.2M overseas). But the bigger deal is that the Illumination/Nintendo/Universal franchise through two pics has now clicked past $2 billion, becoming the 10. animated feature film series of all-time. Illumination’s Chris Meledandri now has three animated franchises in the top 10 including 1. Desppicable/Minions, No. 4 Ice Age and No 10. Super Mario.
The sequel’s sole opening was Israel with a No. 1 bow of $700K in line with Zootopia, Toy Story 4, and Incredibles 2. Japan, which is gonna be big, opens next weekend. The first movie did close to $102M, simply massive. Imax was responsible for $2M around the globe for the sequel taking the large format exhibitor’s running total to $36.2M.
Project Hail Mary‘s global running cume is up to $573.1M after a $41.4M fifth weekend around the globe.
The Ryan Gosling movie returned to Imax with $5.7M around the world taking its cume to $90M. Fifteen locations played in 70MM with those sites not at a sub cume of $6.3M.
New Line/Blumhouse/Atomic Monster’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy with a $22M net production is bound to be profitable after a $34M global start with $20.5M abroad in 77 markets/14K screens and $13.5M stateside. It was built to work abroad. It’s gotta be the brand name because total awareness on tracking was quite strong in the states. The offshore opening is in line with Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise, Halloween Ends, Terrifier 3, Saw X, and The Curse of La Llorona. Like for likes have the Cronin directed and written movie -12% behind Smile 2 and -9% behind Evil Dead Rise.
What’s interesting here is that some of the territory openings for Mummy are bigger than Blumhouse’s Wolf Man in reported, i.e. leading market Mexico with $2.2M (higher than Wolf Man‘s entire $1.7M reported cume and not far from 28 Years Later‘s $2.7M opening), UK’s $1.4M (literally what Wolf Man ended its run at), Spain with $1.1M (again, defeats Wolf Man‘s $890K cume, and just a smidge under the $1.2M of 28 Years Later), France $1M (just $100K from taking over the entire $1.1M cume of Wolf Man), Indonesia $993K (blows away Wolf Man‘s final cume of $251K), Germany $928K (not far from 28 Years Later‘s $1.3M reported start and slaying Ready or Not 2‘s $389K opening), Italy with $877K (scares away Ready or Not 2‘s $328K debut), India with $855K (very big next to the under $100K final cumes of Ready or Not 2 and Wolf Man), Malaysia at $835K (higher than the final reported $707K of Smile 2), Brazil with $771K (beats the last reported $450K cume of Ready or Not 2), Australia at $683K (+79% over Ready or Not 2 start), and Colombia with $674K (+122% over the reported start of 28 Years Later).
The global Imax network of 690 screens minted $2M alone for the Cronin pic.
More in a bit.
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