‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ No. 1 $109M WW, ‘Insidious’ Franchise Rises To $800M WW – Global Box Office

The spoils in the U.S. are also the spoils abroad with the global box office in overdrive, much like the United States.

Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to hulk out with a fourth global weekend of $109M (-43% from last weekend, ahead of the $85M that was forecasted; $39M stateside and $70M offshore) for a running worldwide tally of $2.22 billion, now the 6th highest movie of all-time, overtaking Star Wars: Force Awakens ($2.07B) and behind Avatar ($2.9B), Avengers: Endgame ($2.79B), Avatar: The Way of Water ($2.3B), Ne Zha 2 ($2.27B) and Titanic ($2.26B). Brand New Day‘s running cume in U.S./Canada is $854.9M with overseas standing at $1.365B.

Notable territories this weekend out of the 67 markets where the Destin Daniel Cretton directed movie is booked is France ($7.2M, -25% hold, $74.3M cume), Germany ($5.4M, -19%, $57.5M), UK ($5.1M, -39%, $117.8M cume), China ($4.7M, -54%, cume $221.4M), Brazil ($4.1M, -49%, $66.3M), Mexico ($3.9M, -48%, $84.6M), Australia ($3.8M, -43%, $54.1M), and South Korea ($3.3M, -51%, $59.5M). 

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now Sony Pictures’ highest-grossing release ever in 56 international territories, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czechia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Malaysia, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Universal’s The Odyssey‘s sixth global weekend came in at $87.5M ($68M abroad from 83 territories at 18,095 locations, $19.5M domestic). On both global ($1.44B) and domestic level ($539B), it’s Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing movie ever, stateside taking over Dark Knight‘s cume ($534.9M). The running foreign haul is $907M.

China added $16.1M this weekend in No. 3 for a $69.4M cume, clicking past the lifetimes of Dark Knight Rises, Tenet, Oppenheimer, to become the third biggest Nolan movie in the Middle Kingdom of all-time (behind Interstellar and Inception).

Top local titles in China were Once Upon A Time In The Middle East and V.

Odyssey is now the biggest Nolan movie of all-time in Korea, overtaking Interstellar, as well as Universal’s biggest film of all-time in the market. This weekend added a great $14.2M in No. 1, reaching $56M cume. 

Germany saw ($4.2M, $52.2M cume), France ($4.2M, $75.3M, Nolan and Uni’s highest ever there), UK/Ireland ($3.8M, $100.6M cume, Nolan’s biggest ever and Uni’s second highest there behind No Time to Die), Italy ($2.5M, $59.8M cume, the 2nd biggest MPA title of all-time and Uni’s biggest ever), Australia ($2M, $39.9M cume, Nolan and Uni record), Netherlands ($1.7M in No. 1, $20.9 cume) and Spain ($1.5M, $37.6M cume, already Nolan’s biggest there as well as for Imax).

Screen Gems/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s Insidious: Out of the Further posted a $60.3M global weekend, higher than the $50M we were spotting, and not far from the reported of its previous installment, Insidious: Red Door ($64M). The start here rises the franchise’s lifetime total to $800M.

Overseas counted $35M from 64 foreign markets and 13,400 screens, which is the second-highest horror opening of the year and on par with the best of the franchise (Insidious: The Red Door). The overseas launch is 18% above Weapons, and 11% above Scream 7 on a like-for-like basis at current exchange rates. Domestic start was we told you was $25.3M.

Mexico led foreign markets with a No. 1 start of $4.2M. Insidious 6 posted the second-highest horror opening of all-time in the Philippines with $4M. A total of 23 markets set new franchise opening records, including Peru ($1.3M), Italy ($1.1M), and the Netherlands($573K).

Other notable openings include: the United Kingdom ($3.1M), France ($1.7M), Indonesia ($1.7M), Spain ($1.6M), Germany ($1.4M), and India ($1.2M).

Paramount and Spin Master’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie posted $20.6M from around the world ($9.1M domestic, $11.5M overseas) for a global total of $103.4M ($35.4M domestic, $68M overseas). Pic is in play at 58 markets and had six new opening this past weekend including Hong Kong ($290K from 48), Malaysia ($115K including paid preview at 107 sites) and India ($189K at 527 locations). Notable holdovers were France ($1.9M third weekend at 734 sites, -21%, cume near $11M) and China ($912K at 6,164 locations, -48% for a $10.4M cume).

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor’s dinosaurs, The End of Oak Street, posted a $20.2M global weekend ($9M domestic, $11.2M overseas), -57% for a running cume of $86M WW from 78 markets ($38M domestic, $48M abroad). Top markets by cume are UK/Ireland ($6.3M), Mexico ($5M), France ($4.3M), and Japan ($3.3M).

Shoutouts: Both Focus Features’ Obsession and Illumination’s Minions and Monsters crossed the five-century mark at the global box office.

The highest grossing movie ever to be acquired out of a film festival, Obsession, posted a $2.6M 14th global weekend (all from 80 territories overseas) taking its foreign to $238.1M, domestic stands at $263.4M and global is $501M. China added a great $1M this weekend to reach $29.7M cume, having surpassed the lifetime of Backrooms earlier in the week. Obsession is the 6th biggest MPA horror of all-time.

Minions and Monsters global weekend as $5.4M ($4.7M from 84 territories, $700K domestic). Running cume is $504.6M WW ($322.6M overseas, $182M domestic). Greece opened to $56K this weekend, ranking at No.4 in the market and opening on 52 screens. Cyprus bowed to $53K this weekend, opening on 6 screens. An opening at this level is above Minions and Despicable Me 3.