Refresh for up to date…: After starting offshore launch last frame in Korea, director Bong Joon-ho’s residence market, Warner Bros expanded Mickey 17 to an additional 66 international box office hubs this session. The brand new abroad performs, together with the sophomore Korea body, got here in at $24.5M which is according to pre-weekend projections, and lifts the worldwide cume to an estimated $34.2M by way of right now. Mixed with home, the worldwide weekend is $43.6M for a working worldwide whole of $53.3M.
The unique sci-fi characteristic is an costly swing (see Anthony’s deep dive on that here). It gave Parasite Oscar winner Bong his finest opening in 59 offshore markets (together with all of Europe — save for Norway — and Latin America as a area). In 25 abroad launch markets, it ranked because the No. 1 U.S. title. That features China the place Ne Zha 2 continues its dominance and set a brand new document by crossing $2B in-market this weekend (extra on that beneath).
In whole for Mickey 17‘s wider launch, France ($2.9M), which leans into this kind of fare, led play behind Korea (the place the working cume is $14.6M), and was adopted this weekend by the UK ($2.7M), Germany ($1.3M) and Mexico ($1.3M). Japan, Poland, Vietnam and a few smaller markets are nonetheless to launch.
In Imax, Mickey 17’s world cume is $6.3M for almost 12% of the worldwide whole.
Persevering with with studio outcomes earlier than digging into Ne Zha 2, Marvel/Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World added $9.2M from 52 abroad markets for a global cume of $194.2M and a worldwide whole after 4 weekends of $370.8M. The offshore drop was 53% with good holds in Brazil (-25%) and Spain (-28%), notably.
The Prime 5 markets are the UK ($21.2M), Mexico ($14.5M), China ($14.3M), France ($12.8M) and Korea ($11.2M).
The Walt Disney Studios has grossed an estimated $994M on the world field workplace in 2025 — together with outcomes from Captain America and crossover from 2024 releases Mufasa, Moana and A Full Unknown — and can turn into the primary studio of the 12 months to cross $1B when it does so this coming week.
Elsewhere, after crossing the $100M milestone at the international box office final week, Common/Working Title’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy romanced one other $7.9M from 75 offshore markets within the 4th session. The abroad whole is now $103.8M (that rises to $110M+ when together with Studiocanal’s France figures).
Robust play continues within the UK the place the cume is now $51.1M, whereas Germany was off solely 18% in its sophomore body.
Behind the UK, the Prime 5 is rounded out by Australia ($8.6M), Netherlands ($5M), Poland ($4.8M) and Germany ($4.1M).
Additionally from Common, Depraved made its solution to Japan this weekend, bowing with $3.7M at No. 2 behind new native title Doraemon: Nobita. The beginning is nicely above the 3-day openings of Wonka and Barbie, and above the 3-day openings (together with Friday preview days) of The Biggest Showman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Jungle Ebook and Les Miserables, in addition to greater than double Mamma Mia 2.
The worldwide cume rises to $261M for $733.8M world.
Turning again to Ne Zha 2, the animated blockbuster topped $2B in China this weekend, turning into the primary film ever to realize the milestone in a single market. Per Maoyan, the gross in China by way of Sunday is an estimated RMB 14.66B+ (roughly $2.028B utilizing right now’s charges). Together with estimated grosses of about $31M from releases outdoors of China, that lifts to $2.059B worldwide.
As we famous earlier this week, Ne Zha 2 already handed $2B globally, turning into solely the seventh film ever to affix an unique group that features two Avatars, two Avengers motion pictures, a Star Wars installment and Titanic. At right now’s estimated worldwide whole, Ne Zha 2 has overtaken Avengers: Infinity Warfare to take a seat at No. 6 on the all-time chart.
Whereas play is starting to settle in China, the phenom continues to steer presales there by way of Thursday. Ticketing app Maoyan has been revising its NZ2 forecasts over the previous few weeks, at the moment predicting a China remaining of RMB 15B ($2.075B). That alone would push Ne Zha 2 above Star Wars: The Drive Awakens to turn into the fifth highest-grossing film in historical past.
Up to now, NZ2’s ex-China releases embrace North America, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and a few smaller markets. It releases in the UK on March 21 (previews begin March 14) whereas different majors in Europe are pending. Japan is ready for April 4.
The Imax whole by way of Sunday is $148M in China for $150.6M world.
And, in Oscar-bump information, final weekend’s Finest Image winner Anora noticed huge uptick in abroad play for Common with a weekend of $3.1M (+435%) in 53 markets. The worldwide UNI cume is $18.7M, whereas FilmNation markets are at $9.1M. The worldwide whole is $46.2M. Mega will increase have been seen in Italy (+670%), Spain (1859%), Mexico (+666%), Germany (+2856%), UK (+475%), Korea (+1072%) and Netherlands (+504%).
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