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As of 9:25 on Jan.21, the total pre-sale box office of 2023 #SpringFestival (Jan.21 - Jan.27) exceeded 600 million, #FullRiverRed, #TheWanderingEarth2, #HiddenBlade respectively ranked the top three #BoxOffice.
Overseas, #ThorLoveAndThunder grossed 60.1M on 2nd weekend over 47 markets, also dropping hard but not as much as in the US (-62.2%), for a 264.6M international cume.
Allied to 233.3M in the US, new #Thor hits a 497.9M Global cume at #BoxOffice.
Eyeing a 720M-760M Global run
Meanwhile, #ThorLoveAndThunder keep losing screens to #TopGunMaverick as soon as it showed weak WOM and weak legs, and grossed 1.4M on 2nd SAT, harsh -67.4% drop from last SAT, for a 19.3M cume.
#Elvis grossed just 112k, for a 341k 4-day cume in #Korea’s #BoxOffice.
2/2
#TopGunMaverick flying at British #BoxOffice.
1st to cross £70M in 2022, reaching est £72.5M ($87.9M) cume on 7th weekend, beating #MammaMia’s £68.9M, #InfinityWar’s £70.8M & #BeautyAndTheBeast’s £72.4M as #13 highest grossing film of all time in the #UK.
Eyeing #Titanic’s £80M.
Overseas, #ThorLoveAndThunder saw a 159M opening weekend over 47 markets (vs #ThorRagnarok’s 109.1M opening over 36 markets in 2017), beating #TopGunMaverick’s 126M as #2 biggest of 2022.
Allied to 143M in the US, #Thor saw a strong 302M Global opening at #BoxOffice.
1/2
Biopic #Elvis poised to rock it at domestic #BoxOffice.
Solid 3.5M THU previews incl fan screenings, close to #BohemianRhapsody’s 3.9M, & besting #RocketMan’s 2.3M.
At pandemic era, on pair with #Scream’s 3.5M, and close to #Uncharted’s 3.7M
30M-40M weekend could be in the cards.
The world is about to get into a battle between dinosaurs & man at the global #BoxOffice.
In #Italy for instance, #JurassicWorldDominion had a 1.3M THU Opening Day, #3 biggest of pandemic, but positive WOM fuelled #TopGunMaverick with 574k on 2nd THU, up +20.3% (!!!) from 1st THU
Due to illness, we have regretfully cancelled all upcoming performances of A Christmas Carol on 21, 22 and 23 December.
All ticket-holders for these dates have been contacted, but you can get in touch with the Box Office if you have further queries: boxoffice@ornc.org
After huge 50M THU previews in the US, #SpiderManNoWayHome grossed 70.6M overseas on THU over 48 markets, lifting international cume to 114.2M in 2 days, for a 164.2M Global cume at #BoxOffice.
5-day Opening weekend can be as high as:
300M+ overseas
200M+ domestic
500M+ Globally
#TheBattleAtLakeChangJin in #3 grossed 2.2M in its 7th SAT, for a 883.1M cume at #China’s #BoxOffice.
#NoTimeToDie in #4 grossed 2.1M in its 3rd SAT, now with only 31k screens (had 106k in its debut), for a 56.7M cume, only 2.8M away from beating #Skyfall’s 59.3M local run.
2/3
#TheBattleAtLakeChangJin remains #2, grossed 2.7M in its 6th SUN, finishing its 6th 3-day weekend grossing 8.7M, lifting its cume to 874.1M at #China’s #BoxOffice.
#Dune finished its 3rd weekend in #5 with 2.1M, -58% drop, after grossing 760k on SUN, for a 36.7M cume locally.
2/2
#SpiritUntamed had a timid start, but legs are improving considerably at the domestic #BoxOffice. On its 3rd FRI, the #Dreamworks animation grossed 830k, a minimal 1% drop from last weekend.
Its current domestic cume is 13M. It might not be a #TheCroods2, but it is trying hard.
In #Korea, #TheConjuring3 grossed 1.1M on SAT, for a 2.1M 3-day cume.
#Cruella grossed 975k on 2nd SAT, up 11% from 1st SAT, for a 4.8M cume, beating #WW84 run.
#F9 grossed 646k, for a 17.1M cume, beating #Soul as highest grossing Hollywood film of Pandemic era at the #BoxOffice.
This weekend, #Universal releases #SpiritUntamed in 3.211 theatres in the US, while WB got 3.102 theatres booked to screen #TheConjuringTheDevilMadeMeDoIt, what means that #AQuietPlace2 & #Cruella’ll remain the wider releases domestically in their 2nd weekend at the #BoxOffice.
In #Korea, #TheConjuringTheDevilMadeMeDoIt debuted on THU grossing 449k in its opening day, followed by #Cruella with 230k for a 3.4M cume.
#F9 grossed 215k for a 16.2M cume, only 300k from beating #Tenet as Hollywood’s 2nd biggest run of the Pandemic era at the local #BoxOffice.
If in #China things are going south for #TheFastSaga, in Korea things are going great, as #F9 grossed 1.4M on 2nd SAT, dropping only 41% from last SAT at the local #BoxOffice. Solid 13.9M cume.
It has also beaten #Cruella, which grossed 879k on SAT, for a 1.7M 3-day cume so far.
#TheFastSaga is strong in #Korea, as #F9 grossed another 2.1M on SUN, finishing weekend with strong 9.8M opening at the local #BoxOffice.
The latest #FastAndFurious flick took another 240k moviegoers to the movies on SUN, and has been seen by a total 1.1M people so far in Korea.
#TheFastSaga is already showing that not even a pandemic can slowdown a #FastAndFurious film, at least in #Korea, where #F9 debuted on WED grossing 3.4M, bringing 400k moviegoers to 2.265 local cinemas, dominating 83.9% of the #BoxOffice. Franchise’s Best opening day ever locally
WB, you greedy...
#Regal reopening the larger rest of its theatres on APR 6 + vaccination ramping up in NY & CA made WB last-minute to delay #MortalKombatMovie from APR 16 to APR 23 in the US, giving #GodzillavsKong 3 weeks to make as much 💵 as possible at domestic #BoxOffice.
In #Korea, #WonderWoman1984 completes 25 days in #1, grossing 55k on its 4th SUN, dropping 38.6% from last SUN, holding 20% of market share & 4.4M cume at the local #BoxOffice.
#WW84 is just the 2nd film since #Tenet to be seen by more than 500k people (534k) in #SouthKorea.