{"id":1033437,"date":"2026-08-30T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:32:18","slug":"box-office-global-universal-first-to-hits-3b-intl-dog-stars-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033437\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office Global: Universal First To Hits $3B Int’l, ‘Dog Stars’ Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the deepest of summer, Odysseus came close to throwing Spider-Man off the top of the global weekend box office, but the aranea superhero had the upper hand over the crusty ole warrior, $66.2M<\/strong> to $62.9M<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> <\/strong>was in its fifth session, taking its global count to $2.33B<\/strong> ($1.44B int\u2019l, $891.5M domestic), the fourth highest movie ever at the worldwide B.O., while Christopher Nolan\u2019s Odyssey <\/strong>stands at $1.55B ($988.7M int\u2019l, $563.8M domestic).<\/p>\n

\n\tNolan\u2019s best ever rocketed Universal<\/a> across the $3B mark overseas, becoming the first studio in 2026 to do so at the foreign B.O. Triple note, the studio already became the first to cross $4 billion worldwide this year. We\u2019re waiting on Uni\u2019s update on their YTD global. It\u2019s the third time that a studio crossed $3B at the international box office since 2019, and it\u2019s the third time that Universal has achieved this milestone as a studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpidey\u2019s fifth frame delivered $44M from 29,000 screens and 67 markets. Top market cumes to date are China ($227.4M), UK ($125.2M),\u00a0Mexico\u00a0($88.2M),\u00a0France\u00a0($81.6M),\u00a0Brazil\u00a0($70.2M), Germany\u00a0($62.8M),\u00a0South Korea\u00a0($62.7M),\u00a0India\u00a0($61.5M),\u00a0Australia\u00a0($57.1M) and\u00a0Spain\u00a0($42.6M).<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tL to R: Mia Goth is Melantho and Anne Hathaway is Penelope in \u2018The Odyssey<\/a>\u2018, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal Pictures;<\/p>\n

\n\tOdyssey\u2018s seventh global frame breaks out to $48.6M int\u2019l, -29% from last weekend, at 83 territories, and $14.3M domestic, -27%. The Imax global weekend was $24.6M ($8M domestic, $16.6M int\u2019l) for a running total for the exhibitor on the pic of $449M from 68 countries. China Imax alone did $5.5M this weekend for a running cume of $11.1M. Japan has still to open on Nolan\u2019s Homer epic, that being Sept. 4. Back in the states, this weekend\u2019s performance drove Hollywood\u2019s TCL Chinese Theatre to the highest individual theater performance of any Imax title in history with $4.4M to date.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf note this past weekend, in Korea, The Odyssey passed Brand New Day\u2018s gross to become the biggest MPA title of the year there. Weekend 4 added $11.6M with a $70.1M cume, still No. 1 and a 60% market share. Odyssey has taken over Avengers: Infinity War to become the 6th biggest MPA movie of all-time in Korea. <\/p>\n

\n\tChina added a third weekend of $10.2M, No. 3 behind local titles Once Upon a Time in the Middle East and V, for a running total of $88.3M. Odyssey has now surpassed the lifetime of Inception and is Nolan\u2019s second biggest in the Middle Kingdom behind Interstellar. That total also puts Odyssey ahead of Jurassic World: Rebirth\u2018s total in China.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMaisie Richardson-Sellers as Clare in Screen Gems\u2019 \u2018Insidious: Out of the Further\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSony<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Screen Gems\/Stage 6\/Blumhouse Atomic Monster\u2019s Insidious: Out of the Further <\/strong>posted a second global weekend of $28.8M<\/strong> ($10.1M domestic, $18.7M int\u2019l from 66 markets) which puts its running global at $110.2M<\/strong> ($66.6M from abroad, $43.6M stateside). After its sophomore frame, the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0is already the No. 4 horror release of all time ($5.4M\u00a0cume) after a\u00a0$1.1M\u00a0weekend.\u00a0Mexico\u00a0did\u00a0$2.1M to lift its cume to\u00a0$7.7M,\u00a0while the\u00a0UK\u00a0earned\u00a0$1.8M\u00a0to raise its cume to\u00a0$6.6M. France\u00a0added\u00a0$1.1M\u00a0for a market total of\u00a0$3.3M.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jacob<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJacob Elordi in \u2018The Dog Stars<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\t20th Century Studios\u2019 Dog Stars<\/strong> via Disney which cost $70M to shoot and millions more in marketing was muzzled with a $19.3M<\/strong> global opening ($8M domestic, $11.3M int\u2019l from 49 markets). No China release here. Disney says that within Europe, the Ridley Scott movie opened No. 4 in France ($1.5M) and UK ($1.4M), No. 5 in Italy ($800K), No. 2 Kuwait, No. 3 Bulgaria, No. 5 Finland, No. 4 Netherlands ($300K), No. 5 Norway, No. 4 Switzerland, as well as Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine. Spain did $1M, and Germany was $400K.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Asia, Dog Stars debuted to $700K in Japan, ranking 4th for a MPA title, made $500K in Australia, ranking 4th for a MPA title, with Korea the No. 5 MPA. Thailand opened to No. 2 MPA, Hong Kong was No. 4 for a MPA, New Zealand and Indonesia was No. 4 for MPA, while Singapore and Malaysia opened to No. 5 for a MPA title. <\/p>\n

\n\tWithin Latin America, the Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin movie opened fifth in Mexico to $900K as well as Colombia (#5), Ecuador (#5), Central America (#5) and Paraguay (#5). Brazil brought in $300K.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie <\/strong>did $12.7M <\/strong>global this weekend ($4.8M domestic, $7.9M int\u2019l from 59 markets) for a running worldwide of $124.6M <\/strong>($43.3M domestic, $81.3M overseas). Philippines\u00a0<\/strong>opened to\u00a0$115K\u00a0<\/strong>including paid previews at 132 locations. France was the top holdover with $1.3M, -28% in weekend 4 at 890 locations with a running total just under $13M. <\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros\/Bad Robot\u2019s The End of Oak Street <\/strong>posted a fourth global sesh of $11M<\/strong> ($6M int\u2019l from 81 markets, -46%; $5M domestic, -43%) for a $105M<\/strong> running worldwide tally ($59M int\u2019l, $46M domestic). Top five territories by comes are UK ($8.1M), Mexico ($6M), France ($5.4M), Japan ($4.2M) and Spain ($3.3M). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the deepest of summer, Odysseus came close to throwing Spider-Man off the top of the global weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[410482,171,887,3279,67,132,941,68],"class_list":["post-1033437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dog-stars","tag-entertainment","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-the-odyssey","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-universal","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117185896175466668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}