International Box Office: Spider-Man’s Worldwide Vacation

July 18, 2019

Spider-Man: Far from Home

Spider-Man: Far from Home ended its international run by opening in Italy this past weekend and this helped it remain in top spot on the international chart. Overall, the film pulled in $97.50 million on 30,559 screens in 86 markets for totals of $569.88 million internationally and $844.47 million worldwide. The film earned first place in Italy with $4.38 million on 829 screens over the weekend for a four-day opening of $6.08 million. If we compare just the three-day weekend, which is unfair to Far From Home, this result is still 45% more than Homecoming’s debut in that market. The film’s top holdover was South Korea, where it remained in first place with $9.80 million on 1,708 screens over the weekend for a two-week total of $48.97 million. China wasn’t too far behind with $9.61 million over the weekend for a three-week total of $192.18 million. The film has very likely overtaken Homecoming at the global box office by the time you read this and could top $1 billion this weekend, assuming The Lion King doesn’t take too big a bite out of Far from Home’s box office numbers.

Speaking of The Lion King, the film opened in China with $53.88 million over the weekend for a total opening of $54.11 million. This was enough for first place in that market and second place overall.

Toy Story 4 remained in third place with $48.1 million in 45 markets for totals of $424.7 million internationally and $771.4 million worldwide. The film broke the record for the biggest opening for an Disney animated film in Japan, with $15.3 million. It was even better in Hong Kong, where it set the record for biggest animated opening, earning $4.6 million. The film’s legs have been incredibly long and the movie has yet to open in Germany, so we can’t rule out $1 billion worldwide. I’m not bullish enough to predict it will get there, but I also wouldn’t be too surprised if it did.

White Storm 2: The Drug Lords fell to second place in its native China and fourth place overall with $33.42 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $138.38 million.

Annabelle Comes Home remained in fifth place with $18.5 million on 9,212 screens in 78 markets for totals of $113.4 million internationally and $174.2 million worldwide. The film had a trio of major market openings, earning third place in both the U.K. ($2.8 million on 528 screens) and in France ($2.4 million on 360). Meanwhile, it opened in second place in Spain with $1.4 million on 322 screens.

We will continue to track Aladdin as it nears $1 billion worldwide. This past weekend, the film pulled in $14.6 million in 45 markets for totals of $628.7 million internationally and $960.2 million worldwide. The film was down just 16% overall and actually grew in several major markets. This includes South Korea where it was up 3% with $4.65 million on 975 screens over the weekend for a total of $73.57 million. This was enough to push it into fifth place on the all-time chart for western releases.

Filed under: International Box Office, Toy Story 4, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Lion King, Aladdin, Annabelle Comes Home, The White Storm 2: Drug Lords