Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King continued its reign at the top of the international box office pride this weekend with an additional $53.5M from 52 material markets. This lifts the overseas cume to $307.8M and global to $476.4M as it approaches the half-a-billion mark.
Speaking of major milestones, Disney’s Moana 2 is now on course to join the billion-dollar club worldwide, with $960.5M through Sunday; Universal/Focus’ Nosferatu topped $100M global this session; and, as we noted earlier, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has exceeded $1B across three films (more on those below).
The offshore drop on Mufasa was 31% with strong holds in Japan (+13%), Germany (-22%), France (-23%), UK (-24%), Australia (-26%), Brazil (-26%), Mexico (-30%) and Spain (-31%). Overall overseas, Mufasa is now the No. 9 studio release of 2024.
The Top 5 markets to date are France ($30.9M), UK ($25.9M), Mexico ($21.4M), Germany ($20.5M) and Italy ($19.6M).
The Imax total is $31M global including $15.4M from international.
As Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise tops $1B global, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 added $51.2M from 61 markets this weekend, a hold of -36%. There were 7 new openings, each of which was the best for the franchise including Brazil ($6.8M), Italy ($5.1M) and Poland ($3.3M).
The international total is now $148.8M for $336.3M worldwide.
The Top 5 markets to date are the UK ($23.6M), Mexico ($16.2M), France ($14.4M), Australia ($9.7M) and Brazil.
Universal/Focus’ Nosferatu expanded to another 56 overseas markets this weekend, upping the total to 61 in release. The sophomore session brought in $26.8M for an international cume of $31M to date. The film has already surpassed the offshore totals of Robert Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse. The $31M is also more than double The Northman at the same point. Globally, Nosferatu has grossed $100.4M to date.
Through today, Nosferatu will become Eggers’ biggest movie of all time in 21 markets including the UK, Mexico and Italy.
The UK leads all play with $6.6M across a five-day opening at an expected No. 1. The film has already surpassed the total lifetimes of recent horrors The Substance and Trap in the market, and achieved the biggest opening weekend for Eggers with only Wednesday’s gross. Overall, the Imax share is currently running at 12%.
