‘Red Flower’ flourishes and ‘Soul’ sings in China; ‘Wonder Woman’ at the $ 119 million global box office – Deadline

Upgrade to the latest…: China was the big winner at the international box office this weekend, with three local films topping the charts and a New Year’s record set on Friday. This happened at the time when it was confirmed that the global box office led by the market in 2020, surpassing North America for the first time.

We’ll take a closer look at Middle Kingdom titles below, but we’ll also see the success of two Hollywood films that have been doing great business there and in other markets. Disney / Pixar’s Soul and DreamWorks Animation / Universal’s The Croods: A New Age they are available online in the domestic market and in some other markets, which makes them vulnerable to piracy. However, family films are receiving more and more attention in these cases – especially in markets where consumer confidence is high in cinema security.

Soul is having an uplifting race in China. After debuting in the last frame for $ 5.5 million, the animated original saw daily increases from Tuesday onwards and a second session of $ 13.7 million – a jump of 149% since its debut. The local price is now $ 25.7 million based on excellent word of mouth. This weekend, it had the highest average per program of the local Top 10.

It is estimated that the film can raise just over $ 50 million in the market, an impressive number, since Pixar films tend not to overdo the index, except for Coconuts. If you overtake Incredibles 2for $ 54 million, it would become Pixar’s second largest turnover in China, after Coconuts.

In total, Soul posted an estimate $ 16.5M of the same 10 markets in which it bent in the last session, plus South Africa, which was new this weekend. This is an increase of 114% since 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 so far are Taiwan ($ 2.1 million), Saudi Arabia ($ 1.5 million), Singapore ($ 800K) and Ukraine ($ 600K) and the United Arab Emirates ($ 600K).

The success of international box office is $ 32.5 million with significant launches yet to come in Russia and Korea.

DreamWorks Animation / Universal’s The Croods: A New Age exceeded $ 100 million worldwide with a $ 115M running ridge on Sunday. This weekend saw the sequence add $ 7.6 million (+ 14%) from 17 offshore markets, raising the international total to $ 80.4 million.

Croods 2The box office is led by China, where the film has been extended and now grossed $ 52.5 million. The novelty in this session was Ukraine, with a start # 1 of $ 600K. Russia has jumped 28% to a running peak of $ 6.2 million and Australia has jumped 61% to $ 7 million so far. Croods it also ranked first in Spain for the second week and amassed $ 3.2 million there. Future releases are still TBD due to cinema shutdowns in the rest of Europe.

Returning to China’s Top 3, exciting drama A small red flower ended its opening weekend with an estimated RMB 758.6 million ($ 116.2 million), followed by comedy Warm hug in RMB 522M ($ 80M) and last week’s global winner Shock wave 2 which has now raised RMB 822 million ($ 126 million), by Maoyan. The last film grossed $ 9.5 million in IMAX from Thursday to Sunday, more than doubling its opening weekend in the format. The price of the local IMAX is now $ 15 million.

Warner Bros / DC’s Wonder Woman 1984, which surpassed $ 100 million worldwide on Thursday, is stagnating at $ 25 million in China, seeing only $ 800,000 added last week. Overall, the film raised $ 10.1M 40 offshore markets in this session bringing the peak of international racing to $ 90M and global for $ 118.5 million.

As was the case with the last session, Australia again provided a window into what could have been WW84 launched in less stressful conditions. The second weekend saw a slight drop of 16%, bringing the local total to US $ 11.5 million, which represents 43% above 2017 Wonder Woman.

WW84 has not yet been released in most of Europe due to the continued closing of cinemas, while Latin America, which leans towards DC, is facing additional restrictions from Covid. The cinemas were temporarily closed in São Paulo, Brazil (the city represented 38% of the WW84 gross box office during the opening weekend). And in Mexico, nine of the 32 states are currently closed, including Mexico City. The next key market launch is Russia on January 14. There will be exclusive IMAX previews in Russia this week.

Meanwhile in Japan, Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train was No. 1 for the 12th consecutive season, remaining essentially at the same level as last weekend, when the anime adaptation officially surpassed that of 2001 Spirited Away as Japan’s highest grossing title of all time. The current market estimate is 34.6 billion yen ($ 337 million). We will update the official data on Monday.

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