Refresh for more…Goliath dominated over David this weekend at the global box office as Disney 20th Century Studios’ Send Help had the last laugh over YouTuber indie powerhouse Markiplier’s Iron Lung with a $28.1M worldwide debut ($20M domestic, $8.1M overseas debut from 47 markets) the latter estimated at a $20.9M global start from 11 markets for 4th place.
That’s a respectable start for Send Help, a movie which before P&A cost $40M. Also the result is a win for a R-rated original movie. And c’mon, that’s a fantastic result for the less than $3M production Iron Lung. We’re hearing there were foreign B.O. sources that there were several sellout shows abroad for Iron Lung.
Send Help takes Disney to it’s 10th consecutive week at the global B.O., and as of this moment the Mouse House owns the top three spots with Avatar: Fire and Ash at $24.8M ($5.5M domestic/$19.3M from 52 markets, -34% drop abroad) and Zootopia 2 at $23.1M ($5.8M domestic, $17.3M overseas in 52 territories, -18% abroad). Global rises for Avatar 3 to $1.41 billion, the 18th highest grossing of all-time ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4B). The James Cameron movie with $1.0185B is the No. 12 MPA release of all-time at the foreign B.O. ahead of Fate of the Furious ($1.01B) and Jurassic World ($1.018B). Imax’s global network delivered $3M to Avatar 3 for a running cume for the large format exhibitor on the Na’vi movie at $184M.
Send Help opened No. 1 in Mexico ($1M), Kuwait, Thailand and Indonesia. It was No. 2 in Bahrain, Iceland, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia ($200K), UAE (non-local), Argentina, Brazil ($200K), Korea ($400K), India, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam.The Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien movie opened #3 (non-local) in Australia ($800K), Japan ($400K) and Taiwan. Germany did $500K, Italy $400K, Spain $400K, and Netherlands $300K.
Zootopia 2 was up in its 10th weekend stateside at +9%. When does that ever happen for an animated movie on a non-holiday weekend? China was also up at +13%, still No. 1 there with the sequel’s cume in the Middle Kingdom now at $631.2M. Zootopia 2 among non-local films in Japan was No.; pic’s cume well north of $90M. The eighth highest MPA release at the worldwide B.O. stands at $1.77B with $408.8M from North American and $1.36B abroad. Other updated cumes are France ($74.6M), Korea ($56.2M), Germany ($48.5M), UK ($43.5M), Mexico ($40.2M), Australia ($27.9M), Brazil ($24.6M), and Taiwan $23.3M).
Meanwhile, Iron Lung is calling domestic at $17M and an estimated $3.9M overseas in a limited rollout in UK/Ireland, Australia/New Zealand, Germany and Netherlands. From what we’ve gathered it made an estimated $800K in Australia. Realize Send Help is in its 80% of the foreign marketplace. It didn’t play UK this weekend where Iron Lung planted its flag. The Sam Raimi directed movie hits France on Feb. 11.
Black Bear’s Jason Statham movie Shelter did $7.5M overseas (at 12,971 locations and 27 territories) to $5.5M in North America for a global opening of $13M for the $50M production which was funded by foreign sales. I’m hearing that P&A domestic was around $15M, and if you want to go large with a Statham action pic, you gotta go more (A Working Man was around $27M North American P&A)
Shelter played in UK & Ireland (it was No. 1 there with $1.3M ahead of Iron Lung and Primate, and 4% ahead of The Beekeeper and 43% ahead of A Working Man), Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, China, Netherlands, Greece, Israel, South Africa, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia/Bosnia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and West Indies. Shelter was No. 1 in Saudi Arabia ($928K ahead of Send Help, and 78% ahead of comp The Accountant 2), No. 1 in UAE ($707K ahead of Send Help, 7% ahead of Accountant 2). Overall the Middle East did $2.3M which is 40% ahead of The Accountant and in sync with The Beekeeper. China was a No. 4 debut with $2M, -37% behind Statham’s A Working Man and -53% behind The Beekeeper. The Netherlands bowed to No. 3 ahead of Send Help with $447K, 69% ahead of Accountant 2.
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