Holy cow! Or whatever kind of Holy is yelled out in a comic book, but Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossed the $2 billion global mark, becoming the second-fastest movie to do so and the eighth movie to ever cross that benchmark.
Brand New Day pulls off this feat in 17 days while Avengers: Endgame crossed $2B in 11 days.
Broken out, Brand New Day counts $785.8M domestic, the fourth highest ever in U.S./Canada, and a running cume of $1.236B abroad for a current worldwide tally of $2.022B.
Third global weekend for the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed, Tom Holland and Zendaya-starring pic is $188.7M. Stateside, the pic posted the second-best third weekend at the domestic B.O. at $70M after Force Awakens‘ third weekend of $90.2M.
Abroad in 67 markets, Brand New Day made $118.7M this weekend on 53,700 screens. China led the frame with $10M taking its cume to $210M followed by France at $9.1M (-39%) for a cume of $63.7M.
Other top markets this weekend: the United Kingdom ($8.2M weekend, -49%, $106.0M cume), Brazil ($7.5M, -47%, $59.5M), Mexico ($7.3M, $78.0M),Australia ($6.6M, -45%, $48.8M), South Korea ($6.4M, -41%, $53.2M), Germany ($6.4M, -42%, $48.8M), Japan ($3.4M, -15%, $27.0M), India ($3.2M, $59.6M), Spain ($2.8M, -44%, $35.2M), and Italy ($2.2M, $36.4M).
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now Sony Pictures’ highest-grossing release ever in 36 international markets, including Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Italy, Malaysia, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
John Leguizamo in ‘The Odyssey’
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Even Eumaeus could see that The Odyssey would be No. 2 again at the global box office, the Christopher Nolan pic now in its fifth frame with $121.4M WW weekend ($23.2M domestic, $98.2M overseas in 83 territories) and a running global tally of $1.29B ($504.6M domestic, $786.2M overseas).
Odysseus docked in China this weekend with a great start of $36.6M (including $7.6M previews), and Imax driving close to 80% of tickets sales from 40% of all showtimes there. Odyssey ranked second in the market after local pic Once Upon a time in the Middle East from filmmaker Muye Wen. The 3-day take of $28.9M for Odyssey is on par with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and more than double Dark Knight Rises‘ start. The Odyssey‘s $13M Imax take in China ($19M cume) is the highest grossing for a Nolan pic in the large format in the Middle Kingdom. The Odyssey achieved an outstanding 9.7 Maoyan rating, both the highest result for an MPA title this year and the joint highest result for an MPA movie ever.
Overall, The Odyssey banked $37M worldwide in Imax this weekend with running global cume for exhibitor at $346.4M ($163.4M domestic, $183M overseas cume), its highest grossing title ever.
Korea added $15.7M in weekend 2 for a No. 1 rank taking Odyssey‘s cume to $34M surpassing the lifetimes of Nolan’s Inception, Oppenheimer, Dunkirk and Dark Knight Rises. It’s the second highest grossing Nolan movie currently in the market behind, get this, Insterstellar.
In France, The Odyssey saw a $5.4M fifth weekend to reach a cume through Sunday of $68.5M, It’s already Nolan’s highest grossing there. Pic was No. 2 behind Brand New Day.
The UK & Ireland’s fifth session was $5M to reach a cume through Sunday of $92.5M. As we told you, it’s already Nolan’s highest ever in his native land and the highest-grossing title ever in Imax UK-side. Odyssey ranked No. 2 behind Brand New Day. Japan is the next big territory for Odyssey on Sept. 11.
‘The End of Oak Street’
Warner Bros/Bad Robot’s The End of Oak Street with a $47M WW start ($21M domestic, $26M or 3.5M admissions overseas in 74 markets) isn’t the strongest for starry creature feature which cost between $80M-$92M (before global P&A), but it’s where the studio was spotting it, and NRG too. A $21M start in U.S./Canada is alright for an Anne Hathaway movie, above the $17.7M domestic opening of her dramedy with Robert De Niro ($17.7M) (we’re not counting Odyssey which was a massive ensemble or Dark Knight Rises). We will see where the legs go here. Very cool concept of dinosaurs in a neighborhood, who chase a family. You’d think they’d chase more into cinemas for this original take on dinosaur sub-genre.
In Europe, The End of Oak Street debuted to $12.8M with top territories being UK/Ireland ($2.9M), France ($2.3M), Spain ($1.2M), Germany ($928K) and Italy ($712K).
Asia did $8.4M for the region with Japan at $1.9M, China at $1.4M way behind Odyssey and Brand New Day and Taiwan at $775K.
Latin America made $4.8M with $2.7M from Mexico, and $648K from Brazil.
Territories yet to release are Azerbaijan (Aug 20), CIS (Aug. 20), Kazakhstan (Aug 20), Korea
(Aug 20), Cyprus (Aug 27) and Greece (Aug 27).
‘Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie’
Paramount and Spin Master’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie had its second overseas frame, first domestic with $36M WW ($20.5M, 2nd best in franchise domestic start and $15.5M overseas) and a running cume of $69M global (of that $48.5M int’l).
Previous pic in reported, 2023’s Paw Patrol: The Mighty did excellent abroad, yielding 68% of the final reported global of $205M or $139.7M to domestic’s $65.3M.
New openings were: Mexico ($1.4M including previews, No. 4 at 864 locations), Brazil (No. 3 with $950K including previews at 676 sites), Taiwan (No. 5 $358K at 88 locations), Korea (No. 7 with $312K including previews at 253 sites), Argentina (No. 5, $221K with previews at 197 cinemas), Panama (No. 4 with $250K including previews at 260 locations), UAE (No. 7 with $236K at 60 sites taking Mid East region to a $538K gross) and Chile (No. 4 $169K with previews at 75 theaters).
Notable holdovers were in France (2nd weekend of $2.3M, -44%, $8M cume), China ($1.8M 2nd weekend, -41%, and running cume of $8.7M) and Germany ($1.1M 2nd weekend, -43%, with a cume just under $4M).
Max (Andrew Burnap) and Allie (Monica Barbaro) in ‘One Night Only’, directed by Will Gluck.
Further down the chart, Uni’s One Night Only did $4.2M worldwide, ($2M domestic, $2.2M overseas). Running global is $12.1M (with under $10M domestic, where the pic is about done). Pic began its overseas launch in 26 territories, the most notable of which was $400K in Australia, a No. 4 rank behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey, and fellow opener The End of Oak Street. Netherlands saw $361K start (including $174K previews) boosted by Ladies Night screenings. France bowed to $310K at 270 screens. Israel was $248K in weekend one (including $124K in a strong preview campaign). Pic surpassed the lifetime of The Roses in the market and performed well above the opening weekend of Fly Me to the Moon. German-speaking Switzerland debuted to $160K at 42 screens, also boosted by pre-release open air and Ladies Night screenings. The Callum Turner-Monica Barbaro movie opened to $151K in Poland, which included close to $70K in previews, at 197 screens.
We’ll have more updates for you tomorrow.