{"id":6118,"date":"2025-06-22T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6118\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:57:08","slug":"28-years-later-opens-to-60m-at-global-box-office-elio-bows-with-35m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6118\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Years Later Opens To $60M At Global Box Office, Elio Bows With $35M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATED:<\/strong> Danny Boyle\u2019s 28 Years Later<\/a> has come alive with an estimated $60M<\/strong> worldwide bow. The split is dead even at the domestic and international box office<\/a> with $30M<\/strong> each for the auteur-driven R-rated Sony horror movie. This is slightly above pre-weekend projections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe opening in 59 offshore markets is higher than recent auteur horror\u00a0Sinners\u00a0(+76%) and on par with\u00a0Nosferatu. It\u2019s bigger than horror franchise films\u00a0A Quiet Place:\u00a0Part II\u00a0(+13%),\u00a0Evil Dead Rise\u00a0(+24%) and\u00a0Smile 2\u00a0(+29%), all in like-for-like markets at current exchange rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid a heatwave raging in the market, 28 Years Later stormed the UK<\/strong> at a No. 1 start of $6.4M. Mexico<\/strong> was the next best bow at $2.7M. The Middle East as a region launched with $1.8M. Other notable market totals include Australia ($1.7M), Korea ($1.5M), Germany ($1.3M), France ($1.3M) and Spain ($1.2M).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other new opener this weekend, Pixar\/Disney\u2019s Elio<\/a> did not meet expectations, lifting off with $35M<\/strong> global, of which a soft $14M<\/strong> was from 43 material overseas markets (80% of the footprint with China, Japan and Spain to come later). This is well below the pre-weekend projection despite positive audience and social reactions. Note that Elio, which skews young, opened into an international marketplace where kids\u2019 school holidays have largely not yet begun. Elemental opened into the same corridor in 2023, albeit on a more staggered release, and ended up continuing to build.\u00a0To create franchises, studios have to start somewhere \u2014 Disney has the top 3 original animated global openers post-pandemic in Elemental, Encanto and now Elio \u2014 but the latter didn\u2019t click out of the gate and will need to capitalize on holidays and a lack of new animated entries until Smurfs in mid-July (see Anthony\u2019s deep dive<\/a> for more).<\/p>\n

\n\tElio scored its best overseas opening in Korea<\/strong>, where it jumped from No. 4 on Friday to No. 1 on Saturday and ended the frame with an estimated $1.8M at No. 1 for the frame. Behind Korea were Mexico<\/strong> ($1.4M), France<\/strong> ($1.3M), UK<\/strong> ($1.2M) and Italy<\/strong> ($800K).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs expected, the overall offshore and global weekend was again led by Universal\u2019s How to Train Your Dragon<\/a> which has fired up $358.2M<\/strong> worldwide from two sessions. The overseas total so far is $197.7M<\/strong>. In the sophomore frame, the live-action take on the beloved animated franchise\u2019s first entry added $53.6M<\/strong> in 81 markets for a 37% drop from opening.<\/p>\n

\n\tExcluding China, the international cume is above\u00a0Sonic the Hedgehog 3,\u00a0HTTYD3\u00a0and\u00a0The Little Mermaid\u00a0at the same point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second weekend saw some strong holds including in Brazil (-13%), Australia (-28%), Germany (-28%), Netherlands (-32%), China (-32%), Korea (-33%) and Mexico (-38%). HTTYD remained the No. 1 movie in all markets save UK\/Ireland, China and Korea. Japan releases in September.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Top 5 to date are Mexico<\/strong> ($24.5M), China<\/strong> ($23.2M), UK<\/strong> ($16.8M), Brazil<\/strong> ($12.6M) and Korea<\/strong> ($9.6M). The global Imax cume is $28.4M including $13M from international.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTurning back to Disney, Lilo & Stitch<\/a> passed yet another milestone, crossing $900M now with $910.3M<\/strong> global through today. The 5th weekend surfed up another $19.7M<\/strong> (-39%) from 52 material offshore markets, taking the international cume to $523.6M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTops on this one are Mexico<\/strong> ($64.2M), UK<\/strong> ($46.3M), France<\/strong> ($37.1M), Brazil<\/strong> ($34.5M) and Germany<\/strong> ($29M).<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\/Skydance\u2019s Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/a>, also in its 5th weekend, has reached $540.9M<\/strong> global to date, after adding $12.8M<\/strong> from 66 overseas markets during the session. The international running cume is $362.5M<\/strong> led by China<\/strong> ($60.6M), UK<\/strong> ($32.9M), Japan<\/strong> ($30.2M), Korea<\/strong> ($22.5M) and France<\/strong> ($21.8M).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe worldwide Imax total is $74.5M.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In local news, we\u2019re hearing estimates that Indian superstar Aamir Khan\u2019s latest, Sitaare Zameen Par, is on track for an $8M opening in the home market this weekend, and $11.5M global.<\/p>\n

\n\tMISC UPDATED CUMES\/NOTABLE
Materialists <\/strong>(SNY\/A24): $2.1M intl weekend (11 markets); $7.5M intl cume\/$31.4M global
Karate Kid: Legends<\/strong> (SNY): $1.7M intl weekend (56 markets); $48.8M intl cume\/$98.3M global
Final Destination Bloodlines<\/strong> (WB): $1.7M intl weekend (75 markets); $145.3M intl cume\/$280.1M global
The Phoenician Scheme<\/strong> (UNI): $875K intl weekend (59 markets); $15.8M intl cume\/$32M global
Sinners<\/strong> (WB): $455K intl weekend (49 markets): $86.5M intl cume\/$363.8M global<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Danny Boyle\u2019s 28 Years Later has come alive with an estimated $60M worldwide bow. The split is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[206,209,171,3720,7658,7659,7660,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-6118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later","9":"tag-elio","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-how-to-train-your-dragon","12":"tag-international-box-office","13":"tag-lilo-stitch","14":"tag-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114728785839026292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","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=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}