‘Despicable Me 4’ Expands To $230M Global; ‘Inside Out 2’ At $1.217B WW, Now Biggest Movie Of All Time In Mexico – International Box Office
Refresh for latest…: The global and international box office were extra animated this weekend with the expansion of Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 to domestic as well as another 52 overseas markets. At the same time, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 continues to jump for joy having reached $1,216.9M globally. It’s also now the No. 5 animated film of all time worldwide and No. 10 internationally. A notable new record places IO2 as the biggest film of all time in Mexico.
DM4, which began a staggered overseas release pattern a few weeks back, now counts $229.5M globally with several key majors still to come including France, Germany, China, UK, Japan, Korea and Italy. The international cume to date is $107M.
Although Inside Out 2 had a slightly bigger overseas weekend ($78.3M) than DM4 ($73M), let’s start with the latter as there were a host of new openings.
In a total 73 markets, DM4’s $107M through Sunday is in line with Minions, above Minions: The Rise of Gru and well above DM3 and DM2 at the same point. In total, 18 of the new markets are estimated to have logged the biggest opening of the franchise, bringing the tally to 24 which have done so thus far.
This wider frame for the return of Gru included such notable new markets as Mexico, Spain and Brazil. Mexico brought in $12.6M. The film had a very strong start on Thursday with $2.5M, the 3rd highest opening day for the franchise and the 4th biggest opening Thursday ever for an animation. Note that around 52 sites were impacted this weekend by Hurricane Beryl. The 4-day $12.6M opening is in line with Minions, DM3 and above MTROG and DM2. Wide holidays begin on July 12.
Brazil grossed $5.9M for the biggest launch of the DM/Minions franchise and the 2nd biggest Illumination opening in the market, narrowly below Super Mario, as well as the 4th biggest animated opening of all time. Winter school holidays run until the end of July.
Spain opened across 808 screens with $5.7M at No.1, well above DM2 and DM and just off MTROG. The Wednesday debut delivered the 2nd biggest opening day of 2024 and the 2nd biggest opening day of the DM/Minions franchise.
Indonesia’s $2.6M came in above DM2, Inside Out 2, Super
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