Refresh for latest…: China was the big international box office winner this weekend with three local movies at the top of the chart and a New Year’s Day record set on Friday. That came just as it was confirmed the market led global box office for 2020, surpassing North America for the first time.
We’ll take a closer look at the Middle Kingdom titles below, but let’s also look at the success of two Hollywood movies that have been doing great business there and in other markets. Both Disney/Pixar’s Soul and DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age are available online domestically and in some other markets which opens them up to piracy. However, family films are getting more of a bye in these cases — particularly in markets where consumer confidence is high on the safety of cinemas.
Soul is having an uplifting run in China. After debuting last frame to $5.5M, the animated original saw daily increases from Tuesday forward and a sophomore session of $13.7M — a 149% jump from the debut. The local cume is now $25.7M based on terrific word of mouth. This weekend it had the highest per-show averages of the local Top 10.
It’s estimated the film could do a little over $50M in the market, an impressive number given Pixar films tend not to overindex there save for Coco. If it surpasses Incredibles 2’s $54M, it would become Pixar’s second biggest-grosser in China after Coco.
In total, Soul posted an estimated $16.5M from the same 10 markets in which it bowed last session, plus South Africa which was new this weekend. That’s a 114% hike from opening. Increases were also seen in Singapore (+77%), Ukraine (+59%), Thailand (+54%), Saudi Arabia (+52%), Vietnam (+47%), Taiwan (+18%) and Malaysia (+15%).
Below China, the Top 5 markets to date are Taiwan ($2.1M), Saudi Arabia ($1.5M), Singapore ($800K) and Ukraine ($600K) and UAE ($600K).
The running international box office cume is $32.5M with significant releases still to come in Russia and Korea.
Croods 2’s box office is led by China where the movie received an extension and has now grossed $52.5M. New this session was Ukraine with a No. 1 $600K start. Russia jumped 28% for a $6.2M running cume and Australia bumped up 61% for $7M to date. Croods also held No. 1 in Spain for the second week and has cumed $3.2M there. Future releases are still TBD given cinema shutdowns in the rest of Europe.
Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984, which crossed $100M worldwide on Thursday, is stalled at $25M in China, seeing just $800K added in the past week. Overall, the film grossed $10.1M from 40 offshore markets this session bringing the international running cume to $90M and global to $118.5M.
WW84 has yet to release in most of Europe given the ongoing cinema closures while Latin America, which leans into DC, is experiencing additional Covid restrictions. Cinemas have been temporarily shuttered in Sao Paulo, Brazil (the city represented 38% of the WW84 gross box office during opening weekend). And, in Mexico, nine out of 32 states are currently closed including Mexico City. The next key market release is Russia on January 14. There will be exclusive IMAX previews in Russia this week.
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