Worldwide field workplace: July 18-20
| Title | Movie (distributor) | 3-day (world | Cume (world) | 3-day (int’l) | Cume (int’l) | Territories |
| 1 | Superman (Warner Bros) | $102.5m | $406.8m | $45.2m | $171.8m | 79 |
| 2 | Jurassic World Rebirth (Common) | $63.7m | $648m | $40.3m | $371.8m | 83 |
| 3 | F1 (Warner Bros) | $39.1m | $460.8m | $29.5m | $307.2m | 79 |
| 4 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Fortress (Toho) |
$36.5m | $460.8m | $29.5m | $307.2m | 1 |
| 5 | Smurfs (Paramount) | $33.6m | $36m | $22.6m | $25m | 59 |
| 6 | I Know What You Did Final Summer season (Sony) | $24.6m | $24.6m | $11.6m | $11.6m | 59 |
| 7 | The Lychee Highway (varied) | $24.7m | $31.7m | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| 8 | The Legend Of Hei 2 (varied) | $14.1m | $14.2m | $14.1m | $14.2m | 1 |
| 9 | How To Prepare Your Dragon (Common) | $13.9m | $588.9m | $8.6m | $338.2m | 83 |
| 10 | Saiyaara (varied) | $12m | $12m | $11.3m | $11.3m | 1 |
Credit score: Comscore/Artisan Gateway. All figures are estimates.
‘Superman’ tops world field workplace with $102m in second session
Warner Bros retains world field workplace bragging rights for the weekend, with an estimated $102.5m for DC Studios’ Superman in its second session. Complete after two weekends of play is $406.8m – breaking down into $171.8m for 78 worldwide markets and a strong $235.0m in North America.
Decline was simply 44% in North America on a like-for-like foundation (ie omitting previews from the opening quantity) and 47% for worldwide – comparatively light drops for a superhero blockbuster.
Superman is just the fifth US studio title to this point this 12 months to gross greater than $100m globally with its second weekend of launch – following A Minecraft Film, Lilo & Sew, Jurassic World Rebirth and the most recent Mission: Inconceivable instalment.
Amongst worldwide markets, UK/Eire continues to cleared the path for Superman, with $22.2m, forward of Mexico ($16.6m). Brazil ($11.2m) and Australia ($11.0m) each transfer up forward of China ($8.5m), which ranked third exterior North America for the opening session.
Subsequent come France ($8.2m), Spain and India (each $6.1m), South Korea ($5.7m), Japan ($4.8m), Italy ($4.3m) and Germany ($4.2m).
It’s comparatively uncommon for Germany (with a inhabitants above 82 million) to lag behind not simply UK/Eire and France but in addition Spain and Italy on a US blockbuster. Germany additionally got here under UK/Eire, France and Spain with Man Of Metal in 2013 (however forward of Italy), suggesting the market has a monitor file of modest indifference to the Superman character.
Globally, Superman has now exceeded the $391.1m field workplace complete achieved by Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns in 2006, though this comparability just isn’t adjusted for inflation.
The very best-grossing solo Superman movie is Man Of Metal – with $670.1m lifetime in response to accessible knowledge. Batman V Superman: Daybreak Of Justice eclipsed it with $874.4m.
‘Smurfs’ and ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season’ land mid-table
Touchdown in fifth and sixth place within the weekend world field workplace charts are Paramount’s Smurfs and Sony’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season – the previous with an estimated $33.6m and the latter with $24.6m. Each numbers are pretty underwhelming.
Smurfs, a Paramount reboot of the Peyo comic-book property, follows a trio of movies from Sony (2011, 2013, 2017). Worldwide (an estimated $22.6m) stretched far forward of North America ($11.0m) on the weekend for Smurfs. The worldwide complete is $25.0m together with earlier launch in Australia.
The animation/live-action musical movie – which toplines Rihanna within the voice solid – scored greatest in France amongst worldwide markets, with a five-day estimated $3.7m together with previews. Australia, the place launch started on July 5, has reached $3.3m.
UK/Eire comes subsequent (an estimated $1.7m), simply forward of Brazil ($1.6m), after which Mexico, Germany and Poland (tied on $1.5m).
Sony’s first two Smurfs movies set a excessive field workplace bar ($564m and $348m lifetime in response to accessible knowledge), with 2017 reboot Smurfs: The Misplaced Village falling behind with $197m. It stays to be seen whether or not Paramount’s Smurfs will match the lifetime field workplace of The Misplaced Village. But to launch Smurfs are Italy, South Korea and Japan.
Sony’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season grossed an estimated $13.0m in North America and $11.6m throughout 58 worldwide markets in its debut body. That compares with a $105.8m world debut for Warner Bros’ Last Vacation spot: Bloodlines – equally a 2025 revival of a classic horror property, though Sony is not going to welcome that comparability. Last Vacation spot: Bloodlines at the moment has a $285.2m complete.
The unique I Know What You Did Final Summer season grossed $125.6m in 1997 in response to accessible knowledge (unadjusted for inflation), and 1998 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season reached $40.0m in North America.
‘Demon Slayer’ sequel opens with $36.5m in Japan
Beating each Smurfs and I Know What You Did Final Summer season in Comscore’s weekend field workplace chart is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaba Infinity Fortress, which lands in fourth place because of an estimated $36.5m debut weekend in its residence market, Japan.
The much-anticipated anime is the primary Demon Slayer movie to be constructed from unique content material since 2020’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaba Mugen Prepare. (Subsequent Demon Slayer movies have been compilations of TV episodes.)
Reporting of Japan field workplace tends to range. In keeping with one set of accessible knowledge, Mugen Prepare opened in Japan with $31.8m, on its technique to a $365m complete (and $486m worldwide together with a rerelease in Might this 12 months). The unique launch was in October 2020, throughout a relative lull within the Covid pandemic.
Launched by Aniplex and Toho, Infinity Fortress is directed by Haruo Sotozaki and based mostly on the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba manga by Koyoharu Gotouge. Sotozaki additionally directed the Mugen Prepare movie, a number of Demon Slayer TV sequence and the compilation movies (To The Swordsmith Village, To The Hashira Coaching).
Infinity Fortress has set a gap file for Imax in Japan, with an estimated $3.0m from 59 Imax screens, and $3.5m together with at this time’s Marine Day vacation (July 21).
Infinity Fortress will probably be launched in North America and worldwide markets by way of Sony/Crunchyroll, hitting extra Asian territories in August, and remainder of the world together with US, Europe and Latin America in September.
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ nudges $650m complete
Common’s Jurassic World Rebirth added a strong estimated $63.7m globally in its third weekend of launch, taking its complete to a hefty $648.0m. The movie ranks second on the worldwide field workplace for the weekend, behind Superman and forward of F1 (aka F1: The Film).
After hefty drops on the second weekend of play, the speed of decline is arrested for the third session – down 42% in North America and 44% for worldwide (38% excluding China).
Regardless of falling quick in China, the territory stays the highest worldwide market in cumulative, with $71.8m to this point, forward of UK/Eire ($33.7m), Mexico ($28.7m), Germany ($20.9m), France ($17.4m), Australia ($16.7m) and Spain ($14.9m).
‘Lychee Highway’ tops China field workplace
Additionally within the weekend high 10 chart are two new Chinese language titles: The Lychee Highway and The Legend Of Hei 2, respectively grossing an estimated $23.7m and $14.1m for the weekend, and $31.7m and $14.2m cumulatively.
The Lychee Highway is a historic drama directed and co-written by Da Peng (One And Solely), who additionally stars.
Animation The Legend Of Hei 2 is Mtjj’s sequel to 2019’s The Legend Of Hei.
Additionally within the worldwide high 10 is Indian musical romantic drama Sayiaara, directed by Mohit Suri, and produced by Yash Raj Movies. It’s loosely based mostly on 2004 South Korean movie A Second To Keep in mind, and stars Ahaan Pandy and Aneet Padda. Comscore experiences the opening field workplace at $12.0m together with India and 21 different markets.
