Refresh for latest…: With a mighty roar, Disney’s The Lion King was the No. 1 movie in all of its opening markets this weekend, adding $269.4M at the international box office. The adaptation of the classic animation debuted in 51 new hubs, which joined China after its early bow last week. Through 10 days, the Jon Favreau-helmed film has grossed $346M overseas for $531M worldwide when including domestic.
The global launch tally this frame (ie, outside China) was $433M, the 9th biggest of all time. Factoring in China’s $98M so far, The Lion King is already the No. 7 movie of the year worldwide.
Looking at international debuts, Simba and pals were tops everywhere and landed within the Top 5 industry opening weekends ever in several hubs, including Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and the entire Latin America region. The launch is above The Jungle Book and Aladdin in all material markets, and above Beauty And The Beast in nearly all.
Turning back to Lion King, any concerns about lukewarm critical scores started flying out the window as Simba got going mid-week last week. Pre-weekend industry projections for the new hubs — ie excluding the China holdover — were dusted and we quickly saw that the international total would be above $300M through today.
Still to come are Japan, Hong Kong and Italy and it looks safe to project at least a $900M+ finish on Lion King overseas. There is clear play ahead — although not in China where a local animated film has folks buzzing — and reactions from offshore have been strong with good social chatter and momentum ahead.
Overall, Disney had a banner weekend with Avengers: Endgame passing Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. The cume through Sunday on Endgame is $1.936B internationally and $2,790.2M global, still with some offshore markets to rerelease.
In non-Disney, non-superhero news, Illumination/Universal’s The Secret Life Of Pets 2 barked across the $300M worldwide threshold while Uni’s Yesterday is approaching $100M. New Line/Warner Bros’ Annabelle Comes Home is now just shy of $200M.
Breakdowns on the titles above and more are being updated below.
HOLDOVERS/EXPANSIONS
THE LION KING
Opening at No. 1 in all new markets, the Jon Favreau-directed tale performed strongly everywhere, particularly Europe and Latin America. China, where a local movie (Looking Up) came into the frame, is the only hub where TLK was not No. 1 this weekend. It did another $21M for the Middle Kingdom three-day and has put a paw print on $98M so far. It will likely get to around $130M or so when all is said and done. There is competition ahead from another local pic, Ne Zha, which has great social scores and has already been in previews.
Looking elsewhere, TLK did $122M in its opening European weekend. Highlights include the biggest industry opening of all time in the Netherlands ($6M); the 2nd biggest industry opening weekend ever in Russia ($16.7M); and the top launch for a Disney-branded live-action movie in Bosnia, Croatia, France, Norway, and Poland. France is especially strong on the movie with $19.6M to date.
Across Latin America, the big cat grabbed $57M. This includes being the 5th biggest industry opening weekend of all time in the region; the 2nd best ever in Brazil ($17.9M); and the 4th in Mexico ($18.7M). All material markets bowed ahead of Beauty And The Beast, The Jungle Book and Aladdin.
In Asia-Pacific, The Lion King groomed itself to $90M. The film had the 5th biggest industry opening weekend of all time in Australia ($17.1M); and the top start ever for a Disney-branded live-action movie in Korea ($17.7M).
Thirty-six percent of Lion King’s $531M worldwide gross to date has come from 3D. In IMAX, the movie scored the best global opening ever for a Disney-branded title with $25.2M, over 26% bigger than Beauty And The Beast and The Jungle Book. (IMAX also had a great weekend in Japan with Toho’s Weathering With You which opened to $1.3M on 30 screens for the best local bow in the format ever.)
Still to come on The Lion King, which looks to have sturdy legs over the next few weeks, are Hong Kong, Japan and Italy.
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME
Notably this session, and despite the competition in the market, FFH topped $200M in China with $201.1M after four weekends. Italy, in its second session, held the No. 1 spot with $1.7M for a $9.6M cume to date. This is one of the key markets where The Lion King did not bow this frame.
Behind China, the Top 5 FFH markets are rounded out by Korea ($55.4M), UK ($34.1M), Mexico ($28.7M) and Japan ($24.8M).
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2019-07-21 17:23:00Z
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