International Box Office: Inferno Burns Bright with $49.75 million
October 19, 2016
Inferno started its international run in first place with $49.75 million on 12,293 screens in 64 markets. However, its individual markets are a bit of a mess. On the low end, the film only managed second place in the U.K. with $3.62 million on 591 screens, while it also had to settle for second place in Australia with $1.73 million on 266. Given the size of those two markets, this is like opening with just under $20 million here. On the other hand, the film earned first place in Italy ($5.07 million on 679 screens); Russia ($4.81 million on 2,032); and Germany ($4.09 million on 768). Those markets suggest a $40 million to $50 million opening here. Sadly, I think the lower end is more likely here.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was pushed into second place with $23.5 million in 72 markets over the weekend for totals of $130.9 million internationally and $196.8 million worldwide. The film had no major market openings this past weekend, but it did earn $3.6 million in France for a two-week total of $9.5 million in that market. At this pace, the film should hit $250 million worldwide, or at least come very close. This should be enough to pay for its entire production budget, so it should break even sometime during its home market run.
Operation Mekong slipped to third place with $22.04 million in China for a total in its native market of $141.3 million. It is also playing in Australia and New Zealand and has earned $484,000 in those two markets.
The BFG jumped into fourth place with $13.53 million in 17 markets over the weekend for totals of $89.52 million internationally and $145.00 million worldwide. Nearly all of the film’s weekend haul came from its second place, $13.51 million debut in China.
LUCK-KEY earned first place in its native South Korea with $12.31 million on 1,158 screens over the weekend for a total opening of $14.85 million.
Finding Dory already hit $1 billion worldwide, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to talk about. This past weekend it added $6.4 million in 15 markets for totals of $526.3 million internationally and $1.011 billion worldwide. The film is on pace to overtake Zootopia for second place on the yearly worldwide chart. Meanwhile, Disney announced they beat their previous international record with a combined international box office of $3.566 billion. Their previous record was $3.565 billion set all the way back in 2015. It has been an amazing two years for the studio.
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