Updated: Continuing their success with anime fare, Sony/Crunchyroll’s release of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, has pushed the film across the century mark globally, reaching $108M worldwide this weekend.
From director Tatsuya Yoshihara, this feature sequel to the first season, Chainsaw Man had already been playing at the international box office, as we’ve reported. This session, it added cinemas in North America and another $14.7M from 46 offshore Sony markets.
Produced by MAPPA, the story of demon hunter Denji is now at a global Sony cume of $60.4M ($43.1M international, $17.25M domestic). Toho releases in Japan.
Europe and Latin America leaned in this frame, while Korea continues to embrace the movie – now at $18.8M through today.
Also in continued play, Blumhouse/Universal’s Black Phone 2 rang up another $10.5M for a $31.4M international cume to date in 74 markets. That’s in line with The Black Phone at the same point in release. Global is $80.4M after two weekends.
Mexico continues to dial in, reaching $7.8M to surpass the lifetimes of A Quiet Place Part II, 28 Years Later, Halloween Ends, Smile 2 and Sinners.
Behind Mexico, the Top 5 is rounded out by UK ($3.1M), Brazil ($2.2M), Australia ($1.8M) and France ($1.3M).
Still to come are Korea and Japan.
From Paramount, Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You swayed to a $10M debut in an initial 43 markets.
On a like-for-like basis that’s 10% above Where the Crawdads Sing and 23% above Challengers.
The Top 5 starts out of the 77% international footprint are UK ($1.75M), Germany ($1.65M), Australia ($1.4M), Mexico ($1.3M) and Brazil ($745K).
Amid another small drop (-34%), Paul Thomas Anderson’s critical darling One Battle After Another brought in another $8M overseas this session, from 76 markets. The offshore cume to date is $114.2M and the global total is $180M through Sunday.
New this frame was also 20th Century/Disney’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. The Boss biopic grossed $7M from 28 material offshore markets, led by the UK ($1.6M at No. 1) and Germany ($1M). The global take was $16.1M. While Bruce is a god to so, so many of us (I include my New Jersey-born self), this is not expected to be a movie that travels greatly. It still has Brazil, Japan and Korea as well as most smaller Asian and all smaller Latin American territories to go. Some wings on those wheels?
MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE
Tron: Ares (DIS): $6.5M intl weekend (52 markets); $60M intl cume/$123.4M global
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie (UNI): $5.5M intl weekend (76 markets); $36.4M intl cume/$67.6M global
*50 Years of Roland Kaiser – A Life for Music: (SNY); $2M intl weekend (3 markets)
The Conjuring: Last Rites (WB): $1.9M intl weekend (74 markets); $310.1M intl cume/$486.8M global
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (SNY/CR): $1.1M intl weekend (59 markets); $666.8M global (includes Japan)
*Sisu: Road to Revenge (SNY): $755K intl weekend (Finland only)
*Bugonia (UNI): $618K intl weekend (1 market); $618K intl cume/$1.3M global
*Denotes new