{"id":509310,"date":"2026-01-11T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:02:11","slug":"fire-and-ash-87m-no-1-global-weekend-ww-1-23b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509310\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire And Ash’ $87M No.1 Global Weekend, WW $1.23B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAvatar: Fire and Ash<\/a><\/strong> is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M<\/strong>, $65.6M<\/strong> of that minted in its fourth weekend abroad in 52 material territories taking the 20th Century Studios pic\u2019s foreign haul to $888M<\/strong> and global $1.23 billion<\/strong>. The trilogy\u2019s running cume is $6.5B<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat global take is down 52% off the holiday holdover frame last weekend with holds including Brazil (-24%), Australia (-31%), Spain (-41%) and UK (-41%).\u00a0 The pic bowed as the No. 1 MPA title in Hong Kong this weekend with $900K (with previews cume stands at $2.3M). As we told you previously, the James Cameron movie remains 2025\u2019s second best MPA title in China with $149M behind Zootopia 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmong highlights, are that stateside ($21M), the threequel is the first domestic release to rank No. 1 for four weekends in a row since 2023\u2019s Barbie. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter China, the next top territories for the Cameron 3D sci-fi epic is France ($91.7M), Germany ($73.7M), Korea ($48.5M), UK ($48M) and Mexico ($36.5M).<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the global take for the threequel, Disney can thank Imax for $12.2M this past weekend ($7M foreign, $1.7M China, and $3.5M domestic). The large format exhibitor\u2019s running total on the threequel stands at $159M ($48.5M domestic), the big picture corp\u2019s seventh highest grossing title ever. Overall, Imax theaters rep 13% of the pic\u2019s worldwide take. <\/p>\n

\n\tZootopia 2 <\/strong>in full release in all markets raked in $40.9M<\/strong> global ($30.8M from 52 material territories, $10.1M domestic) for a running total of $1.276B<\/strong> internation, with $1.655B <\/strong>global. That latter figure makes the sequel the No. 6 MPA international release of all-time, and the No. 1 MPA animated international release of all-time and No. 1 MPA international release of 2025 (as we previously told you).<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall global weekend seven saw\u00a0a -52% overall decline,\u00a0with holds in key markets including Brazil (+9%), Australia (-2%), Japan (-41%), Mexico (-41%), and UK (-45%). The sequel remains the No. 1 pic in Japan and China for the weekend and No. 2 in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechia, Georgia, Qatar, Slovakia, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Australia, Korea (non-local), Singapore, Taiwan (non-local), Thailand, Hong Kong (non-local), Indonesia, Vietnam, and across all of Latin America (except Brazil and Mexico).<\/p>\n

\n\tChina counts $611M in cume, followed by Japan $76.7M, France at $69.4M, Korea at $54.6M and Germany at $43.6M. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTHE HOUSEMAID<\/a>, Amanda Seyfried, 2025. \u00a9 Lionsgate \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to movies funded by foreign sales, collecting exact weekend data takes time, so we\u2019ll have further updates for you later this AM or tomorrow. In the meantime, we know that Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid<\/strong> cleaned up another $25.5M<\/strong> from 66 territories this weekend for a running global take of $192.5M<\/strong> ($98.3M foreign). The Housemaid\u00a0was the No. 1 in UK this weekend where it has taken in an estimated $23.7M to date. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you, Anaconda<\/a><\/strong> slither past $100M this past weekend, global is now (updated) $110.1M <\/strong>with 63 international markets grossing $7.7 million from 11,900+ screens for an overseas total of $55.8M<\/strong> through today. Top market cumes: Australia ($8.1 million), UK ($6.4 million), Mexico ($4.7 million), Germany ($3.3 million), Brazil ($3.1 million).<\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Hamnet\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFocus Features<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal International\/Focus Features\u2019 Hamnet<\/strong> was great in the UK with $4.2M<\/strong> ($4.8M<\/strong> global weekend), making it the highest opening weekend for this year\u2019s awards contenders above One Battle After Another, Sinners and more than double Marty Supreme. The film has also topped the openings of A Complete Unknown, Little Women,\u00a0The Favourite,\u00a0Belfast,\u00a0Poor Things\u00a0and more than double\u00a0Conclave. That\u2019s also the highest post Covid opening for a January release in the awards corridor in the UK, the 5th biggest January opening for a drama in the last decade, and second biggest drama opening since the start of 2025 behind only Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. The Chloe Zhao movie is also Jessie Buckley\u2019s highest opening weekend in a leading role while Chloe Zhao and Paul Mescal will see Hamnet as their second highest respective openings behind Eternals ($7.3M unadjusted for inflation and currency swings) and Gladiator II ($11.4M). <\/p>\n

\n\tSong Sung Blue <\/strong>brought in $2.8M<\/strong> abroad in 52 territories, led by openings in Spain, Italy and Germany for a global weekend of $5.8M<\/strong>. Global stands at $40.7M<\/strong> for the Universal International\/Focus Features Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson musical, $9.5M<\/strong> of that from offshore. <\/p>\n

\n\tGermany counted $396K at 371 screens for a No. 10 debut, which included $163K previews. Business was impacted by winter storm \u201cElli\u201d, which prompted official warnings to \u201cstay home\u201d with school closures and event cancellations. Spain grossed $98K at 196 screens, a No. 12 opening. Italy was $82K at 192 for a No. 12 opening in a soft market which was overall -34% from last weekend, we\u2019re told. Australia\u00a0posted $1.2M, for a solid -26% dip in weekend 2 ranking No. 5. The pic\u2019s $3.9M cume is above that of \u00a0A Complete Unknown\u00a0at the same point. The second weekend for the Craig Brewer directed movie in the UK & Ireland\u00a0saw $600K for a No. 8 rank and running cume of $2.5M, above\u00a0The Holdovers,\u00a0Manchester By The Sea\u00a0and\u00a0The Iron Claw\u00a0at the same point.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Primate<\/a> <\/strong>was limited in its overseas launch with only $2.1M<\/strong> this weekend, $925K of that from Mexico putting its global debut frame at $13.4M<\/strong>. Mexico booked the Johannes Roberts movie at 865 locations. Peru made $220K at 48 sites, Colombia $110K at 195, Argentina $106K at 160 sites, Israel $104K at 30, Central America was $80K from 22 theaters, Chile was $70K at 75 locations, while Hungary was $52K at 45 locations. All those figures included previews. The chimp crawls into France on Jan. 21, Australia on Jan. 22; Germany, Italy, Brazil and Korea on Jan. 29; UK on Jan. 30 and Spain on Feb. 6. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPRIMATE, from left: Victoria Wyant, Jessica Alexander, Gia Hunter, Johnny Sequoyah, 2025. \u00a9 Paramount Pictures \/ courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avatar: Fire and Ash is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M, $65.6M…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[99577,24315,171,53,131345,120306,67,132,68,105186],"class_list":{"0":"post-509310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anaconda","9":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-primate","13":"tag-the-housemaid","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-zootopia-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115878490826880373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509310","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=509310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}