UPDATED: Offshore audiences continue to devour Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance with a sophomore weekend of $68.4M in 66 markets for an international box office cume of $227M so far. The running global total after two frames has clicked past the three-century mark, now at $317.1M, which is 4% ahead of Venom: Let There Be Carnage at the same point in release and at today’s exchange rates.
After last weekend’s powerful launch, which was fueled by overseas and a particularly strong debut in China, the international holdover markets were down just 44%; a better showing than the second frames of Let There Be Carnage (-55%) and the first Venom (-59%). While Venom 3 last session registered the lowest opening of the trilogy domestically, the $120M budgeted movie had a terrific second-weekend hold there, as Anthony has noted.
In new offshore markets, the symbiote thrashed into France with $6.5M, coming in 29% above Let There Be Carnage, while Japan grabbed $3.8M, which is on par with the second movie.
The Last Dance again led China box office for the weekend, with a cume through Sunday of $70.6M and Maoyan upping its final prediction to $88.5M there. China is the lead market for the Marvel character’s threequel.
Rounding out the Top 10 are Mexico ($13.4M), UK ($11.9M), Korea ($9.4M), Germany ($9M), France ($6.5M), India ($6.5M), Italy ($6.3M), Australia ($5.6M) and Spain ($5.3M).
The Imax total is now $25.5M global, including $17.7M from international.
In other good news from Sony, Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends with Us has crossed the $200M mark overseas, now at $200.7M and with final market Japan set to release on November 22. The global total to date is $349.2M.
Other milestones this weekend include Paramount’s Smile 2 crossing $100M worldwide (see more below).
In new play in India, and across several other markets, two films went head-to-head for the Diwali holiday. Our sources indicate that Ajay Devgn-starrer Singham Again was the leader at an estimated $16M in the home market and $20.5M worldwide. The Rohit Shetty-directed cop actioner, which also features Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff and Arjun Kapoor, marks a career best opening in India for Devgn.
Behind it, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, a horror comedy starring Kartik Aaryan, is estimated at $14M in India and $18.05M global. Both movies cracked the Top 10 in North America. (As we always note, India grosses can take a bit of time to shake out; we will update accordingly.)
Meanwhile, with strong holds and playing through school holidays in many markets, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot saw just a 14% dip internationally as it added $15.8M from 79 offshore markets. That includes several plays where the Chris Sanders-helmed film saw increases, or was barely off last weekend: Chile (+93%), Netherlands (+47%), UK & Ireland (+9%), Spain (+4%), Germany (even), Australia (-16%), Mexico (-22%).
The overseas running cume is $147.6M for $269.1M global. Recall that Japan releases next February.
To date, the Top 5 markets are Mexico ($17.8M), UK ($15M), France ($11.1M), Australia ($10.6M) and Spain ($7.9M).
Paramount’s Smile 2 added $8.7M from 67 markets in its third frame for a 30% drop from last session. The offshore cume is now $57.1M. Globally, the scary sequel has cracked the $100M mark with $109.7M to date.
The UK continues to lead play at $7.1M, followed by France ($6.1M), Germany ($5.1M), and Italy and Australia at $3.1M each.
Warner Bros is releasing Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 in select overseas markets, kicking off this weekend in six for a strong $5M on 1,348 screens.
The idea here is to target areas where Eastwood is particularly revered, think France and Italy, among others. The top opener this session was France with $3.1M as the clear leader in the Paris region — particularly notable given it coincided with the debut of Palme d’Or winner, Anora. Juror #2 ranked No. 3 nationwide with the AlloCiné rating a 4 out of 5. Opening weekend results were on par with Sully and higher than Changeling (+27%), Richard Jewell (+44%-, The 15:17 To Paris (+151%) and Jersey Boys (+882%).
Spain, despite storms that have ravaged the Valencia region, brought in $937K from 291 screens at No. 5 for the weekend. The film tracked ahead of many of the above comps and is expected to continue performing well throughout the week as “La Fiesta del Cine” discount week runs Monday-Thursday.
In the UK, the opening gross was $442K on 421 screens; on par with Gran Torino.
Another two markets are scheduled to release, including Italy on November 14 and Germany on January 2.
MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE
Anora (UNI): $2.3M intl weekend (21 markets); $2.4M intl cume
Transformers One (PAR): $1.8M intl weekend (64 markets); $69.2M intl cume/$127.7M global