Overseas

Avengers: Endgame is off to a $169 million start from 25 material markets overseas. Disney is reporting higher opening day grosses for Endgame than its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War, in each major market already in release. China is currently leading...

The MPAA has released its 2018 report on the global movie market (THEME), indicating a 9 percent year-over-year growth in theatrical and home entertainment revenue worldwide. Home entertainment revenues increased by 16 percent to $55.7 billion, while theatrical produced a...

Wednesday Update: Disney’s Captain Marvel scored another $14.6 million domestically on Tuesday, lifting its five-day haul to a strong $179.0 million. Internationally, the pic added $19.5 million for an updated cume of $345.2 million. That pushed the global tally to $524.1 million. On...

by Ayşegül Algan Mariam El Bacha’s career may have started in her native Argentina, where she opened multiplexes for Village Cines, but her story since has been a globe-trotting journey. The executive’s career has taken her to multiple international markets,...

Thursday, Dec. 27 Update: Aquaman took in an estimated $20 million on Wednesday, bringing its overseas total to $473.6 million and its global cume to $596.2 million. Country tallies include $246.4 million in China, $19.3 million in Brazil, $18.5 million...

Aquaman continues to take the international box office by storm. The film crossed the $250 million mark in its second overseas frame, a week ahead of its December 21 North American debut. Aquaman was the top film in 42 of...

Monday Update: Aquaman‘s final confirmed China opening weekend is $94.2M. Sunday Update: Ahead of its domestic release, Warner Bros.’ superhero movie Aquaman started in China with an impressive $93.6M weekend. That would make it the #21 best China opening of all time, and the best...

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald started with a terrific debut of $191M overseas and $253M globally, according to Sunday estimates. Warner Bros.’ latest update to the Harry Potter wizarding world began with $37.5M in China, $16.3M in the United Kingdom,...

Warner Bros. horror spinoff The Nun opened with $9.7M overseas on Thursday in 41 markets. Top markets included Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, and Germany. That brings the overseas total to $12.1M, once including sneak peak screenings. It’s also the biggest horror opening day...

Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story began with a $65.0 million overseas opening weekend, as part of a $148.3 million global opening. This comes in far below the openings of other recent Star Wars films: 2017’s The Last Jedi: $230.8M overseas opening (10th...

Fox’s Deadpool 2 opened to an estimated $176.3 million overseas and $301.3 million globally this weekend. That sets several new records, including the biggest R-rated overseas opening (beating last year’s Logan with $160 million) and Fox’s largest overseas opening as a studio (beating...

Infinity War had broken records in almost every other market, so why not add China to the list? Its estimated $200.0 million opening this weekend marked the 2nd-highest industry opening ever. It beats other huge Chinese openings including $184.9 million for The...