Monday, June 16, 2014




With $275.6M in just three weeks in 53 overseas markets, Malefcent has already earned more overseas than Oz ($258M) or Snow White ($241M). 

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Final Int’l Box Office

Ahead of its opening in China next weekend, Disney’s Maleficent did better than the estimate to conjure up another $39.2M this frame in 53 overseas markets. That’s a 39.7% 3rd-frame-over-2nd drop and takes the global cume to an estimated $438.6M through Sunday. International’s part of that is $275.6M. It’s become star (and newly-minted honorary Dame) Angelina Jolie’s 2nd biggest live-action career movie, behind Mr & Mrs Smith and its $478M worldwide. This frame, Maleficent added Thailand, where there’s a late-night curfew in place in many areas. It opened at No. 1 on a four-day gross, including previews, of $804K. The bow was Jolie’s best ever in the market. After China opens on June 20, Japan will release on July 4 — pitting Jolie versus Cruise and EOT.
The fantasy film is still No. 1 in four markets — Taiwan, Italy, Germany and Spain. See market by market breakdowns below. Italy took in $1.8M in its third week to best the debut of Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return and the Cruise pic.
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Overall drops are expected this year during the World Cup play, when very few blockbuster type films open. That, however, opens the door for holdovers to stretch and counterprogrammers to pick up some of the slack. The films that tend to work during this period are ones that skew to female, family and older audiences.
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 Key territory round-ups
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UK
22 Jump Street had a wide berth this weekend again in the UK after opening as the only major studio offering last frame. No. 1 for the 2nd time, it added $3.9M for a $16.6M cume. No. 2 was Disney’s Maleficent in its third frame with $2.6M. X-Men: Days Of Future Past continued in its 4th frame with $1.5M at 650 dates to take the No. 3 spot.

 GERMANY
One of the biggest markets for the John Green book upon which The Fault In Our Stars is based, is Germany. This weekend, the teen romancer opened on 388 screens to $1.8M for a No. 2 showing behind Disney’s Maleficent (which has been No. 1 for three weekends in a row since it debuted); Maleficent has a territory total of $9.9M.

SPAIN
Although Spain played the Netherlands on Friday — or maybe because of their crushing defeat – folks did go to the movies. X-Men, which opened last weekend, lost its No. 1 status by a hair with $1.1M from 760 dates. What did it lose to? Disney’s Maleficent which took the No. 1 spot back with $1.1M+ in its third week in release.



Twitter Tracking

Tue Jun 17 as of 09:45AM PDT
Title # Tweets
Maleficent 31,718
The Fault in Our Stars 23,676
22 Jump Street 13,876
How to Train Your Dragon 2 7,195
Guardians of the Galaxy 6,754








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