And the movie is making tons of money at the box office — breaking
the worldwide opening weekend record, among other.
Universal Pictures» The Mummy grossed just $ 32.2 million from 4,035 theaters in North America, but the Tom Cruise - led project performed as expected overseas, earning over $ 141.8 million from 63 territories, which is Cruise's biggest
worldwide opening weekend ever.
Jurassic World opened at number 1 in 69 territories, making it the largest
worldwide opening weekend ever, and it became the fastest film to reach $ 1 billion just 13 days after being released.
Not exact matches
«After achieving its historic
opening weekend at the global box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to thrill audiences and break records in Imax theatres
worldwide,» said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment.
That figure not only makes it Universal's largest box - office
opening ever, but also the largest
worldwide opening for a movie ever and the only to crack $ 500 million in its first
weekend.
Deadpool became the first R - rated movie to top $ 100 million in domestic box office sales over its
opening weekend, pulling in an impressive $ 135 million in North America and a whopping $ 260 million
worldwide, according to box office research firm Rentrak.
Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the
opening -
weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million
worldwide within less than a month of its release.
2» made $ 425 million at the
worldwide box office in its
opening weekend.
Despite all the negative attention, «War of the Worlds» still went to No. 1 at the box office during its
opening weekend ($ 65 million), and ended up with a
worldwide take of $ 592 million.
The film has killed it at the box office for its
opening weekend and has already hit $ 1 billion
worldwide.
While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest
opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million
worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.
The franchise has made over $ 13.5 billion
worldwide to date, and that number will rise drastically this
weekend when «Black Panther»
opens, as is projected to break some box office records.
A Quiet Place, in particular, grossed $ 50 million on its
opening weekend (the biggest Paramount release in a long time) and has cumulatively grossed more than $ 200 million
worldwide.
This month, «Call of Duty WWII» earned $ 500 million in
worldwide sales during its three - day
opening weekend.
The highly anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has finally
opened in theaters, bringing in an estimated $ 75 million
worldwide over the
weekend alone.
Despite this, the
worldwide take was more than $ 224.6 million for the
opening weekend.
Young sold 22 million copies of his novel
worldwide — more than Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, or The Grapes of Wrath have ever sold; more than Catch - 22 and The Exorcist combined — and the film earned a healthy $ 16.1 million at the box office on its
opening weekend.
It also broke records
worldwide with its
weekend opening projection standing at 235 million dollars, making it the third highest four - day collection of any movie.
The Searchlight marketing team found audiences stubbornly resistant to 2015 Sundance Jury Prize winner «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» ($ 9 million
worldwide) or its most recent Sundance pick - up, «Patti Cake $,» which it purchased for $ 9.5 million but earned just $ 68,000 on its
opening weekend.
After just 26 days in theaters, and having only
opened in the massive Chinese market this
weekend, it crossed yet another milestone: $ 1 billion in
worldwide ticket sales.
With nearly half of its North American earnings coming from its
opening weekend and its $ 53 million
worldwide gross still shy of its reported production budget, Year One definitely didn't perform as well as distributor Sony would have liked.
That's a slightly lower percentage than other superhero titles» overseas
opening weekend gross as a percentage of their
worldwide total.
It grossed $ 304.3 million
worldwide after earning $ 22.7 million its
opening weekend.
And, while Disney is going to hold off further detailed reporting on its double Oscar winner Coco until the film
opens in Japan on March 16, this
weekend was worth $ 3.3 M for a $ 536.4 M overseas cume and $ 745M
worldwide.
Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, in which he plays a drone repairman patrolling a long - abandoned Earth,
opened with a spectacular $ 61m
worldwide at the
weekend and has not yet made its US bow.
By comparison, Deadpool brought in roughly $ 132 million over its
opening weekend back in 2016, then went on to amass $ 783 million
worldwide.
In that time, it has smashed several major box office records, including best domestic
opening weekend box office ($ 250 million) and the
worldwide opening record ($ 630 million), among others.
«Iron Man 3» has already amassed more than $ 300 million
worldwide and is on target to become the highest grossing
opening weekend in the United States ever (outdoing even last summer's «The Avengers»).
With its record - obliterating $ 242 million President's Day
opening weekend and $ 426 million global launch, «Black Panther» is guaranteed to surpass $ 1 billion at the
worldwide box office.
Marvel's big superhero mashup Avengers: Infinity War has exceeded every expectation and garnered an
opening weekend collection of $ 630 million
worldwide.
Marvel's highly - anticipated crossover event film Avengers: Infinity War has taken the world by storm, its
opening weekend box office now hailed as the biggest
worldwide opening of all time.
The superhero tentpole, which cost between $ 300 million and $ 400 million,
opened worldwide with $ 630 million, making it the highest global
opening weekend of all time, even without China debuting this
weekend.
Produced for an estimated $ 58 million, «Deadpool» earned $ 782.6 million
worldwide, and set
opening -
weekend records for February and for R - rated films.
The latest MCU movie broke records by earning an estimated $ 630m (# 457m)
worldwide on its
opening weekend, which is - * cough * - more than Justice League took during its entire cinematic run!
Infinity War started with a bang, or perhaps a snap, decimating the
opening weekend records domestically and going on to do the same thing on the
worldwide scale, knocking The Fate of the Furious off of the throne.
Coogler turned his $ 200 million production budget into a movie that made $ 400 million
worldwide on its
opening weekend, with raves from audiences and critics alike.
Interstellar came in second to Big Hero 6 in its
opening weekend, but the original sci - fi film is already up to $ 545 million
worldwide in less than a month.
It
opened back in February on Oscar
weekend, and went on to pocket $ 254.7 million
worldwide.
«Black Panther» has become a Hollywood hit on a level that few other films have ever achieved: It is now only the fifth film ever to post an
opening weekend of over $ 200 million and is guaranteed to hit $ 1 billion
worldwide within the next month.
David Leitch's Deadpool 2, starring Ryan Reynolds, sets an
opening weekend record internationally and grosses over $ 300 million
worldwide.
«Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» which broke the
opening record for an April release by earning $ 95 million in its first
weekend, went on to gross more than $ 711 million
worldwide.
That's Robert Downey Jr. in «Iron Man 3,» which
opened in theaters last
weekend and has grossed nearly 800 million
worldwide.
2» on May 5, which topped the
opening weekend box office with a domestic take of over $ 146 million and has gone on to garner over $ 860 million at the
worldwide box office to date.
International markets — led, presumably on a leash, by Germany — added another $ 98.1 million to Freed's haul, bringing its
opening -
weekend total to $ 136.9 million
worldwide.
On July 7, «Spider - Man: Homecoming»
opened at # 1 with an
opening weekend box office of $ 117 million and has earned a
worldwide box office of over $ 633 million to date.
The film's mammoth
opening weekend means that the nineteen films that currently make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe have amassed approximately $ 15.5 billion
worldwide.
In 2016, Marvel Studios released «Captain America: Civil War,» which
opened on May 6 with the fifth largest
opening weekend of all time and has since garnered box office receipts of over $ 1.15 billion
worldwide.
Avengers: Infinity War broke not only the domestic
opening weekend box office record bringing in $ 250 million this
weekend, but it also succeeded in taking in a total of $ 630 million
worldwide, giving it records for both domestic and global
openings of all time.
-- Deadpool 2, which made $ 301.3 million
worldwide in its
opening weekend.
UK box office top ten and analysis for the
weekend of Friday 13th February to Sunday 15th February 2015... Well, given its colossal
worldwide opening, this won't come as a surprise at all, but Fifty Shades of Grey has shattered records here in the UK with its debut
weekend of # 13,550,290 giving it the biggest -LSB-...]