Tomorrowland‘s overseas figure couldn’t compete against returning favorite Avengers: Age Of Ultron which outperformed all other films with $46.4M followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with $39M. To be fair, the Disney film is just getting started with some major markets still to come.
Among top markets debuting Tomorrowland, the movie took in $4.3M in Russia, $3.2M in the U.K., $2.8M in Mexico, and $2.5M in France. With more major markets on the way, including China on May 26 and major family territory Brazil on June 4, Tomorrowland is eyeing a future abroad. Significantly, George Clooney was in Shanghai yesterday promoting the pic.
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This offshore weekend, says Disney’s Dave Hollis, was “less than what we were hoping for, but it’s too early to tell if it’s really a number that’s going to be disappointing.” Coupled with what Hollis calls a great original story is the favorable competitive landscape ahead for family films. The next major family title to roll out is Disney/Pixar’s own Inside Out which just had a rapturous reception in Cannes. Says Hollis of Tomorrowland, “I think we’ll be in a better spot a week from now and two weeks from now.”
Fox had boisterous news from its initial rollout of the Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy from 1,810 playdates in 10 Asia/Pacific markets for a haul of $12.7M. Top 3 grossers for director Paul Feig’s latest reteaming with McCarthy were $4.8M in South Korea, $2.9M in Australia (for roughly 94% of comps for Bridesmaids) and $1.3M in Taiwan, where it was No. 1. Spy opens June 5 in North America and adds 52 international markets.
For Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros reported $39M on 14,625 screens — a solid holdover with a drop of only -36%. Offshore cume for George Miller’s franchise starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy comes to $133M for a global total of $227.7M. As in the U.S., Monday is a holiday in the UK, France, Germany, Holland, Korea and other markets which WB optimistically notes should mean a strong Sunday.
Among top markets for MMFR, Korea theaters reported $6.1M — holding on to the No. 1 spot against Fox’s Spy and a homegrown drama with a slender 7% drop in business. Korea cume stands at $17.2M. The movie took in $4.1M for No. 2 slot in the U.K. (beating newcomers Poltergeist and Tomorrowland) for a cume of $16.3M. In Miller’s native Australia Mad Max: Fury Road was No. 1 with US$3.3M. The Oz cume is now US$10.0M.
Mad Max: Fury Road bested the debuting Tomorrowland by 45% in France where it remains No. 1 with $3.5M for a cume of $11.6m. In Russia, the apocalyptic actioner took in $2.8M and total to date of $10.5M. It remained No. 1 in Brazil with $2.4M for a cume of $7.3M. Germany grossed $1.7M and cume of $5.3M. Mexico brought in $1.5M for a total of $6M.
In its third frame, Universal’s Pitch Perfect 2 grossed $15.5M in 37 territories. Adding 8 markets, PP2 opened at No. 1 in Spain and held onto the top spot in the U.K, Ireland and Germany plus Austria and South Africa. With a foreign total of $64.5M, the Elizabeth Banks-helmed Pitch Perfect 2 has now outpaced the original’s full offshore run of $50.3M by $14.2M. The first film’s top territories included English- and German-language markets.
With the North American total of $125.8 million, Pitch Perfect 2’s worldwide tally is now $190.4 million compared to the original’s total figure of $115.35M.
Fox also scared up $8.3M with its debut of Poltergeist on 3,750 screens in 36 markets. Top territories were the U.K. with $2.2M where it took the No. 3 slot ahead of Tomorrowland, followed by Brazil with $2M. Other markets included Argentina, Spain and Australia. Poltergeist adds 7 offshore markets next weekend including Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
DreamWorks/Fox’s animated Home tallied an additional $4.8M from 5,915 screens in 54 markets bringing its foreign cume to $193M. Combined with $167.99M in North America, that brings the global figure for Home to a tidy $361M.
Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, meanwhile, took in an estimated $46.4M in its fifth weekend from 91 territories representing approximately 95% of the international market. The film opens in Japan on July 4. That brings the foreign total to $860.6M including $210M in China where it opened May 12. Combined with Ultron’s North American estimated tally through Monday of $410.98M, the superhero cluster flick will have taken in $1.27B worldwide.
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