overseas

Thor: Love and Thunder took a $15.7 million opening day haul from its first batch of overseas markets yesterday, opening across 17 territories including Germany, Italy, Australia, and South Korea. Disney estimates the opening day results across those markets fall...

Paramount’s action sequel Top Gun: Maverick has now surpassed the 1986 original’s $176M overseas total, with $185M so far. Top markets to date include the U.K. ($35.4M), France ($15.7M), Australia ($15.2M), Japan ($15.2M), Germany ($9.0M), Brazil ($7.0M), Mexico ($6.1M), and Italy ($6.1M)....

Warner Bros.’ The Batman opened across 75 global markets over the weekend, bringing in $248.5 million worldwide. North America represented more than half of the global debut, with $128.5 million, while overseas grosses came in at $120 million following a...

Monday Update: Weekend actuals came in a bit higher than originally projected, with $121.2M oveseas. That slightly narrows the gap versus overseas opening comparison of previous James Bond installment Spectre, from -17 percent to now -15 percent. The leading market,...

F9 clocked in the biggest international debut for a Hollywood title during the pandemic, earning $162.4 million from only 8 overseas markets in its first weekend in release—nearly doubling Godzilla vs. Kong‘s debut in thosemarkets. Imax screenings contributed $14 million of...

When Tom and Jerry debuted to $14.1M in the final week of February, it blasted past all expectations–earning only $2.6M less than Wonder Woman 1984 in its own debut frame. The outsized opening for Warner Bros.’ family film—released simultaneously on...

In an address to Parliament on Monday, February 22, Prime Minster Boris Johnson laid out a timeline under which cinemas—made to close throughout December and January—may be allowed to reopen. Johnson’s “road map” for reopening British businesses is laid out...

Ireland-based exhibitor Arc Cinema has signed a long-term lease with developer and investor Squarestone Asset Management to open a cinema at Kyle Centre shopping hub in Ayr, Scotland—giving the town its first new cinema in over 80 years. The planned...

UNIC, the trade body that represents cinema groups and operators in 38 European markets, has announced a virtual “mini-Cinema Day” to take place on Wednesday, February 24.  A key component of the Cinema Day will involve a breakdown and discussion...

The global box office suffered a steep 71% decline in 2020, the largest year-over-year drop on record, stemming from the disastrous impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. ComScore is reporting a $12.2 billion tally in global ticket sales at cinemas worldwide...

PRESS RELEASE Middle Eastern theater chain Empire Cinemas, with locations in Lebanon, Iraq, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is opening a new location in Jeddah, KSA’s Al Andalus Mall tomorrow, December 17. The cinema—which will open with screenings of...

Kakha (Непосредственно Каха), a Russian-language comedy directed by Victor Shamirov, has achieved the highest opening for any film in Russia since cinemas were allowed to open there in August of this year. According to box office data collected on Monday,...