Avatar: The Way Of Water Drives Over $2 Billion Worldwide; Chinese New Year Begins and Puss 2 Approaches $300M Worldwide – International Box Office

Update for latest…: It’s official now, James Camerons Avatar: the way of water is the sixth film ever to break the $2 billion mark worldwide. This is also the third milestone for the filmmaker titanic and the original avatar.

The mega-performance was announced ahead of the weekend with the worldwide hit on the 20th Century Studios/Disney sequel $2.024 billion until Sunday. This includes $1.426 billion from overseas hubs. This means abroad, away from the water has the no. 4 title of all time and beat Avengers: Infinite War and just behind Avatar, Avengers: Endgame and titanic. With that, Cameron boasts as three of the top four films of all time at the international box office.

Worldwide, away from the water remains the no. 6 movie of all time, with the next Na’vi jump Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If it happens later this week, the epic sci-fi adventure will become the no. 4 movie of all time – earning Cameron three of the top four.

also worldwide, Avatar: the way of water Earning and catching up to $227 million at IMAX Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2 become^second highest-grossing film in the history of the format.

For the overall sixth weekend, overseas recorded a 38% drop, adding more $56.3 million. Due to the opening of various titles for the Lunar New Year (see below), avatar 2 was down 56% in China, but reached $229.7 million there, becoming the highest-grossing pandemic-era studio film on the market, even after the original release of the first avatar.

The top 10 overseas markets so far are: China ($229.7 million), France ($129.8 million), Germany ($117 million), Korea ($96.9 million), the United Kingdom ($81.9 million), In the ($57.9 million), Australia ($55.1 million), Mexico ($51.4 million), Spain ($47 million) and Italy ($45.3 million).

International, Wow remains the #1 non-local filming location in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Central America and Vietnam. Overseas, Europe has an estimated US$667 million (72% 3D/premium formats), Asia Pacific an estimated US$598 million (75% 3D/PLFs) and Latin America an estimated US$161 million to date (54th % 3D/PLFs) .

The film is now the highest grosser of all time in Austria, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lebanon, Romania, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and Colombia. In terms of studio films, it is the biggest to date in India, Serbia, Turkey and Armenia.

While avatar 2 experienced a strong (and now prolonged) enema China, this weekend marked the start of the Lunar New Year holiday. Frant Gwo’s science fiction sequel The Wandering Earth II with Wu Jing and Andy Lau, Maoyan was the top earner as of Sunday with 472.4 million RMB (69.7 million US dollars). Zhang Yimou’s poignant comedy followed Full Red River for RMB402.4 million (US$59.4 million) and the historical drama Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai for RMB136.5 million (US$20.1 million). Each of the films received high social scores of 9.4, 9.6 and 9.1 respectively, according to Maoyan.

Anecdotally, we hear that this New Year season is the local industry’s most anticipated time in the past decade. And unlike previous years, there were no midnight showings for the new titles, but all shows started at 9am local time today. Advance sales are estimated to be lower than last year as local films start marketing campaigns later than usual, while we’ve also heard and heard theater managers complain about the length of titles during a holiday geared towards family reunions – which, given the top three films, is interesting actually last much shorter than avatar 2.

IMAX rates the three CNY films listed above, as well as animated fantasy deep sea. The four titles earned $7.2 million on the Chinese IMAX network for the second-biggest New Year’s Day opening ever. The Wandering Earth II managed the game for $5.7 million, double its 2019 predecessor.

Other encouraging studio news is from Universal/DreamWorks Animation Puss in Boots: The Last Wish nearly $300 million worldwide. It achieved a small drop of 19% internationally by adding this frame $17.8 million in 78 markets for foreign sales of $171 million and worldwide in general $297.5 million. The international performance (ex China, where the film was also extended) is 39% higher sing 2 at the same point.

Cat especially in Latin America. In Mexico it caught up avatar 2 this session for first place and reached $16.6 million to beat the lifetime of both To sing movies. In Brazilthe swashbuckler had more shots than away from the water and earned $9.6 million. In Germany, cat 2 has exceeded the lifetime of sing 2 with $12.5 million to date. The main market is France for $18.3 million, followed by Mexico, Germany, Australia ($10.9 million) and Brazil. Britain and Japan have yet to open.

Damien Chazelle Babylon was present in 53 foreign markets this weekend $13.2 million. The elaborate/expensive proposal was almost naturally wonderful Francewho is a fan of the filmmaker, came in second with $3.4 million United Kingdom was weak at $1.8 million, followed by Australia with 1 million dollars. Korea and Japan bow in February.

Universal/Blumhouses M3GAN danced to a 43% drop in 66 foreign markets over the weekend $10.9 million For a $51.3 million international come so far and $124.6 million worldwide. The AI ​​doll is in accordance with to smileand higher transparent man, The black phone and Halloween ends at the same point in the same markets.

Brazilprone to spooky stuff was a highlight at Thursday’s bow, which was May 2nd^second biggest opening day for a pandemic horror movie, just beaten The magic 3and the biggest non-sequel horror opening day since Happy death day 2017. From Saturday things progressed avatar 2 on recordings and delivers the strongest performance in popular and mixed theaters. The Full Frame grossed $1.4 million, making it the best non-sequel horror opening weekend since It in 2017. The performance in the first three days of shooting was almost twice as high black phone in the same place – an excellent result considering black phone Open during the holidays and is currently the biggest Blumhouse film in Brazil.

The top 5 markets so far are Mexico ($7.7M), UK ($5.7M), France ($3.5M), Spain ($2.9M) and Australia ($2.86M).

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