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Refresh for latest…: Big weekend at the global and international box office as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning take center stage.
Lilo & Stitch, the live-action take on 2002’s animated adventure, started rollout on Wednesday and is now playing in 50 material offshore markets, grossing $56.3M through the first three days overseas.
Included in that bunch are the biggest opening days of the year in France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Mexico and Spain. That’s great news, especially as this is a family property with no offshore holidays, and ahead of the key Saturday and Sunday plays.
Internationally, the full opening frame is expected to come in ahead of pre-weekend projections. Along with domestic, the global opening has already exceeded $100M with $111.3M through yesterday.
The little blue alien’s top markets through Friday are Mexico ($9.4M), UK ($4.2M), France ($4.1M), Italy ($3.8M), Brazil ($3.7M), Germany ($2.5M), Central America ($2.2M), China ($2M/$5.7M through Saturday – not reflected in totals above), Spain ($2M).
The other mega movie in the mix this frame, Tom Cruise-starrer Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is at $75.9M through Friday in 64 offshore markets (80% of the footprint). The Christopher McQuarrie-directed actioner has had extensive previews that began last weekend, as we noted in our global preview, and through Friday, it’s running 8% ahead of the 2023 installment, which had similar previews, at the same point.
Along with domestic, the global total through Friday is $100.7M.
The top markets are as follows, all are including previews: Korea ($8.9M), Japan ($6.5M), Australia ($5.4M), UK ($5.M/No. 2), France ($3.9M), Germany ($3.6M), Mexico ($1.9M), Brazil ($1.5M), Spain ($570K).
Important to note that this is not a race between the two movies. Rather, it’s a terrific energizer for cinemas around the world. Both Lilo and Mission are scoring with critics and with audiences; it’s a wonderful way to kick off summer moviegoing.
We’ll have a full update on Sunday.
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