After grossing another $3M on 168 screens, IMAX’s international take for the franchise accounts for $10M with France, the Netherlands, and the Middle East locations readying to bow next weekend. Guardian‘s worldwide gross on IMAX screens is now at $30M. It’ll open in France and Spain next weekend and won’t hit China until Oct. 1 to bring in $6M and, so with previews has culled together a strong $8.2M. In Russia, it has already run over Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the first Captain, Thor 1 and Iron Man (the first one) - no small feat.
So it’s still rockin’ and rollin’ around the globe with Russia and the UK becoming its strongest territories so far with $23.9M and $22.8M, respectively. It took in $41.7M this weekend in more than 50 markets but has yet to bow in some big territories, namely China, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Its local cume in Germany is now a whopping $34M.Īnd what about Guardians of the Galaxy? It has now grossed more than $313M worldwide since bowing last weekend, buoyed by a $176.5M domestic take after this weekend. 1 from 382 locales and in its fourth weekend in Germany, it continued to hold well, bringing in $1.8M from 585 runs. title with a superb $6.4M gross in 337 locales – a 10% jump over the previous Revenge of the Fallen‘s opening weekend there. What a summer for director/producer Michael Bay, huh?įor a breakdown, the franchise opened in Japan as the No.
The studio has now opened the film in its final two territories of Japan and Spain. Paramount can also boast that its Transformers: Age of Extinction has become the 9th-highest-grossing film of all time with $789.1M after pulling in another $17M in 58 territories. 1, grossing a better than expected $7.1M from 653 locales, besting last weekend’s opening of Guardians of the Galaxy, which took in $6.5M. 2 pic in the marketplace - Guardians of the Galaxy in its second weekend out of the gate. 1 with $11M or 13% ahead of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and nearly doubling the No. 1 in 17 of 19 markets - including in the big markets of Russia and Mexico - to take in $29M on 2,771 screens. There will be no territory-by-territory breakouts, but we did put in highlights from China, Korea and Japan as local titles are very strong in those territories this weekend.ġst UPDATE, Sunday, 9:46 AM: After chalking up $65.5M this weekend domestically, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesopened to No. Disney, which crossed the $2B international box office mark, also has another $500M+ international player on their hands in Maleficent (see below).Īlso, the comedy sequel Inbetweeners 2 has become the biggest opener of the year in the UK with a $4.5M Wednesday and a total cume of $20.9M in five days, besting Transformers 4 but just a hair behind the original’s $22M opening in 2011 (see below for more details). It has yet to bow in China and has already passed the lifetime gross of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. and others, including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which opened in Germany as No. Just received Sony’s final numbers on Sex Tape and 22 Jump Street a little after 3 p.m.Ģnd UPDATE, Sunday 2:00 PM: We’ve added openers Into the Storm and about 15 more titles from Universal, Fox, Warner Bros. 3rd UPDATE, Monday, 1.45 PM and 3:15 PM: All major titles are updated, including opener Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which has tallied $94.5M worldwide, Guardians of the Galaxy (now at $313M ww), openers Into the Storm, Step Up All In, and holdovers Hercules, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lucy, Boyhood, Neighbors, The Purge: Anarchy, The Fault in Our Stars, How Train Your Dragon 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, Blended, and Transformers: Age of Extinction.