Refresh for latest…: Disney’s Beauty And The Beast continued to shine in the sophomore session with another $119.2M at the international box office — a less than 35% drop from opening last week. The global cume is $690.3M through Sunday making the Bill Condon-directed live-action tuner the No. 1 movie of 2017 worldwide (and domestic). The offshore total to date is $373.3M.
BATB now becomes the 4th consecutive Walt Disney Studios release to pass $600M global, after Doctor Strange, Moana and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It also helped push the Mouse across $1B at the worldwide box office during last week. The estimated total through Sunday is $1.3B.
New openings for Belle and the castle-dwellers this frame included France ($8.4M with previews), Australia ($11.1M with previews) and Argentina ($4.4M/No. 1 2017 bow). Holds were impressive with slight dips in many majors. In the UK, the Emma Watson/Dan Stevens-starrer scored the 3rd biggest 2nd weekend ever (behind only Skyfall and Spectre) and March’s biggest ever sophomore frame.
In China, Beauty gave up the No. 1 slot to another beast. Warner Bros/Legendary’s Kong: Skull Island took over the Middle Kingdom box office beginning Friday when it stomped in to score the 2nd biggest English-language opening of 2017. The giant ape ultimately pounded out a $72.1M Middle Kingdom launch. In IMAX, a $6.5M China debut on 387 screens is the all-time top March opening in the format. Overall, Kong well surpassed $200M internationally, with a $93M frame that brings the offshore box office to $258.6M.
Elsewhere, Lionsgate’s new entry, Saban’s Power Rangers, morphed into an $18.7M debut in 62 overseas markets while Illumination/Universal’s Sing reached $600M at the global box office.
We are still waiting on some numbers. Breakdowns are being updated below.
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