Refresh for latest…: M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass took the top spot at the international box office this weekend with $48.5M in 55 markets. That’s right in line with pre-weekend projections and positions the Blumhouse pic at 13% ahead of its predecessor, Split. Disney, which handled the first movie in Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 trilogy, 2000’s Unbreakable, has overseas on Glass via Buena Vista International. Combined with the domestic take (via Universal), the global three-day weekend is $89.1M.
The Bruce Willis/Samuel L Jackson/James McAvoy-starrer opened at No. 1 in the majority of its offshore hubs (note that it currently does not have a China date — it’s understood that should it slot in, the movie would not go through Disney, rather it would be a Shyamalan deal).
Coming into the weekend, we were reminded that there is lower awareness of Unbreakable outside the mature major territories. While some expected Glass to be front-loaded, we understand the weekend didn’t reflect that overseas. We’ll see how word of mouth plays out during the next week. Internationally, the reactions have been better than the domestic RT score.
Glass’ top offshore bows were in Russia ($5.2M/39% ahead of Split), Mexico ($4.5M/+96% — best Shyamalan opening ever), the UK ($4.3M/+29%), France ($3.4M/-1%) and Korea ($2.8M). Within those, Mexico, Russia and the UK were highlights while Korea is the only one of the group that didn’t debut at No. 1, landing softly and faced with competition from the holdovers of two successful local pics. Japan was also light, not cracking the Top 10. While Japan was the biggest play for Unbreakable, Split was weak there.
Overall on Split, the UK, France, Korea, Germany and Russia were the lead markets and that film finaled at $140.2M abroad for a little more than 50% of its total.
Paramount
Elsewhere at international turnstiles, Paramount’s Bumblebee stung the No. 2 spot for the weekend. As we reported yesterday, the well-received Transformers origins story flew past the $400M mark globally. Through today, it’s at $412.3M worldwide and $296.4M overseas, so it will soon zip across $300M offshore. Japan doesn’t release until March 22.
Warner Bros’ Aquaman for his part has now butterflied to $759.1M in international waters, and lifted his global cume to $1.06B.
20th Century Fox
Coming in behind the undersea adventure this weekend, Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody is now the biggest 2018 release in 13 international markets, including Japan ($88.6M), Italy ($30.5M) and the Netherlands ($19.3M). The cume on the Freddie Mercury biopic will imminently cross $800M global and $600M international.
In other milestones, Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns sashayed across $300M worldwide and will pass Chicago tomorrow.
Breakdowns on the films above and more are being updated below.
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