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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ opens with $180m at global box office; ‘Ne Zha 2’ stays top

Worldwide field workplace: February 14-16

Rank Movie (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories
1. Ne Zha 2 (varied) $279.6m $1.64bn $272.4m $1.63bn 4
2. Captain America: Courageous New World (Disney) $180.9m $180.9m $92.4mm $92.4mm 53
3. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (varied) $32.8m $34.3m $32.8m $34.3m 73
4. Detective Chinatown 1900 (varied) $26m $443.5m $26m $441.6m 8
5. Paddington In Peru (varied) $20.3m $128.8m $7.3m $115.8m 54
6. Chhaava (varied) $19.1m $19.1m  $17.3m  $17.3m 21
7. Canine Man (Common) $13.9m $84.5m $4.2m $17.6m 48
8. Coronary heart Eyes (Sony) $10m $22.5m     1
9. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) $10m $686.3m $5.8m $445.5m 53
10. God Save The Tuche (varied) $5m $15.4m $5m $15.4m 2

Credit score: Comscore. All figures are estimates.

’Ne Zha 2’ dominates once more after North American debut

Ne Zha 2 held onto the highest spot in Comscore’s worldwide field workplace chart this weekend, regardless of going through competitors from a few sturdy new releases. 

The Chinese language animated sequel grossed an estimated $279.6m from 4 territories over the weekend, bringing its international whole to this point to $1.64bn. In addition to persevering with its exceptional Chinese language New 12 months run in its residence market, the movie opened in North America by means of CMC Footage with an estimated $7.2m from 660 theatres, adequate for fifth spot on the home field workplace chart. The take is predicted to extend to $8.3m for the four-day weekend after Monday’s official Presidents’ Day US vacation is taken under consideration. 

Detective Chinatown 1900, one of many different Chinese language movies on final week’s international chart, dropped from second place to fourth place this weekend, taking $26m from eight territories for a complete to this point of $443.5m. 

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‘Captain America: Courageous New World’ makes sturdy international begin

Disney’s Captain America: Courageous New World was the large new competitor this weekend and emerged in second place on the chart with a formidable international take of $180.9m from 53 territories. Worldwide markets yielded $92.4m and North America $88.5m for the three-day weekend (with the take anticipated to hit $100m for the four-day weekend). 

Disney mentioned the debut represented the largest home opening of 2025 and a world begin 4% forward of that for 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier in like-for-like markets at present charges (excluding China). 

The brand new launch is the fourth big-screen entry in Marvel Studios’ Captain America collection and the primary with Anthony Mackie taking on the title position from Chris Evans. Julius Onah directed the story of the shield-carrying superhero investigating a world plot. 

With some latest Marvel releases showing to fall sufferer to superhero fatigue, Courageous New World was not anticipated to measure as much as the efficiency of the collection’ most up-to-date entry, Captain America: Civil Battle, which took $1.15bn worldwide in 2016. The efficiency of Winter Soldier, which ended up with $714.4m worldwide, supplied a extra doubtless comparability. 

Courageous New World opened at quantity one in every of main European markets besides the UK, the place it got here in second. It was primary in each market in Latin America, and the highest non-local movie in each market throughout the Asia-Pacific area. 

The brand new entry’s top-grossing markets had been China, with $10.5m, the UK, with $8.5m, Mexico with $6.6m and Korea with $5.6m. France produced $4.7m, Australia $3.8m, Brazil and Germany $3.6m every and Japan $3.1m.

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‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ enjoying worldwide area

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy started its worldwide rollout this week, taking an estimated $32.8m from 73 territories over the weekend, in line with Comscore, for a complete to this point of $34.3m and third place on the chart. Common reported a weekend take of $32.3m for the 70 markets during which it’s distributing, with France, the place Studiocanal launched on Wednesday (June 12), bringing the overall to this point to $35.5m. 

The Common Footage/Working Title movie, with co-financing from Studiocanal and Miramax, is the forth within the Bridget Jones collection, with Renée Zellweger returning because the title character, now a single mom in emotional limbo, and Michael Morris directing. 

The brand new entry – which made its US debut this weekend on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service – had the widest opening of any Bridget Jones title and achieved the largest opening gross for the collection in like-for-like Common markets, mentioned the distributor. The newest earlier entry within the collection, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child, went on to gross $187.7m within the worldwide market. 

Mad About The Boy had by far probably the most success in residence market UK/Eire, topping the native chart with a gross of $14.8m, breaking the territory’s document for a romantic comedy opening set in 2004 by second franchise entry Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Purpose

In Australia, the most recent entry opened in second place on the native chart with $3.4m; in Poland it topped the chart with $2.2m; within the Netherlands it was primary with $1.9m; and in Spain it was quantity two with simply over $1m. 

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’Paddington In Peru’ arrives in North America

Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru moved up from eighth place on final weekend’s international chart to fifth this weekend with $20.3m from 54 markets, for a complete to this point of $128.8m. 

Included within the whole was an estimated $13m from the movie’s three-day opening weekend in North America, the place Sony Footage (which additionally has key worldwide territories together with Latin America) is distributing. The US debut, which positioned the household movie second solely to Captain America: Courageous New World on the native chart, in contrast favourably to the $11m three-day opening in 2018 of Paddington 2.

Native movies make a mark

Indian historic drama Chhaava arrived in sixth place with an estimated $19.1m from openings in 21 territories. The Hindi-language movie had debuts in India, the UK and North America, the place it grossed $1.8m by means of Yash Raj Movies. 

French comedy God Save The Tuche entered the chart in tenth place with an estimated gross of simply over $5m from two territories, for a complete to this point of $15.4m. 

Directed by and starring Jean-Paul Rouve, the movie was produced by Pathe with quite a lot of French companions. 

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