‘Dune: Part Two’ Nears $500M Global, Dusting 2021 Movie; ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ Punches In At $177M As Rollout Expands – International Box Office
With a solid offshore hold, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is closing in on $500M globally. The overseas weekend brought in $51.2M across 73 markets, a 40% drop versus last session (-37% excluding China). The international box office cume through Sunday is $289.4M, and worldwide the running total is $494.7M. The latter figure means the film has already surpassed Villeneuve’s 2021 Dune worldwide.
Internationally in like-for-like markets and at today’s exchange rates, the Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment sequel is tracking 67% ahead of 2021’s Dune, 47% bigger than Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, 20% over Godzilla Vs Kong, 7% above Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and 3% ahead of both Ready Player One and The Batman.
Japan was the new bow this session with $1.7M including previews; that’s 22% above the opening weekend of Dune.
Villeneuve recently visited China in support of Dune 2, and the sophomore frame there added $9.8M for a local cume of $36.1M. In only 10 days of release, Part Two surpassed the cume of Dune the first and has also become the top imported film of the year as well as the biggest ever in China for Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet.
Elsewhere, third weekend drops were terrific in a number of markets including Holland (-24%), Singapore (-24%), Sweden (-25%), Germany (-27%), Norway (-29%), Austria (-30%), New Zealand (-31%), Finland (-32%), Taiwan (-32%), Thailand (-32%), Korea (-33%), UK, (-34%), Belgium (-34%), Denmark (-34%), Philippines (-34%), Australia (-35%), Poland (-36%), Hong Kong (-37%) and Brazil (-37%).
Shot in IMAX, the movie has now grossed $104M globally in the format; the 15th IMAX title to surpass the milestone and the 7th fastest to do so. The international total for the weekend was $11.4M for a cume to date of $54M. In China, the weekend in IMAX was $3.6M, representing a massive 35.5% of the total there and pushing the cume in the market to $12.3M. In Japan, 50 IMAX screens generated a fantastic 45% of the opening weekend total.
The other major player this session — Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 — had a $39.6M international weekend as staggered offshore rollout continues. The holdover
