‘Superman' Flies To $407M Global, ‘Jurassic World Rebirth' At Monster $648M; ‘F1' Racing Towards $500M WW & ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' Sets Records In Japan

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…: It's been a busy weekend globally for Hollywood, with new milestones for two pictures, and as another pair close in on benchmarks amid strong holds. There was also new studio fare this frame while the latest Demon Slayer is a big hit in Japan, its first release market.
Taking the major milestones first, and before digging into more detail, DC/Warner Bros' Superman topped the four-century mark in its sophomore session, flying to $406.8M global. In its 3rd weekend, Universal/Amblin's Jurassic World Rebirth, after topping half a billion worldwide during its sophomore frame, roared past $600M global to reach $648M through Sunday.
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In holds, and near milestones, Apple Original Films's F1, via Warner Bros, keeps pushing the needle with increases in some markets again this session amid a mere 24% overseas drop from last weekend to top $300M ($307.2M) at the international box office and reach a $460.8M global cume to date, on its way to $500M.
Universal's How to Train Your Dragon is closing in on $600M worldwide with $589M through today.
Notably, some of the above titles have yet to open in Japan, having dated out of the way of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle which started local release on Friday. This is the massively anticipated latest in the Demon Slayer franchise. While getting reliable grosses out of Japan this early (particularly as this is a four-day weekend with Monday a holiday), we are hearing estimates as high as 5.9B yen ($39.7M) for the FSS.
We will update as clearer figures become available, but we do know that the movie (which will be released by Sony domestically in September) opened to an all-time Imax record in Japan of $3M. That's bigger than any Hollywood or local title and includes an Imax opening day Friday record. The estimated four-day total is $3.5M in Imax.
Before we turn back to details on the above Hollywood holdovers, here's how the new movies fared.
Paramount Animation's Smurfs grossed $22.6M this session internationally, for $33.6M global. That's lower than where we saw it pre-open, but comes with the codicil of a crowded marketplace and not so family friendly weather in Europe. Including Australia, which started last weekend, the offshore cume is $25M.
As expected, France was first up with $3.7M, followed by the UK at $1.7M, Brazil at $1.6M, Mexico with $1.5M and Germany at $1.5M. Including last weekend, Australia is at $3.3M.
Major markets still to release include Korea and Italy in August and Japan in September.
Also new, Sony's I Know What You Did Last Summer hooked $11.6M from 58 overseas markets this session. That's on par with Happy Death Day 2U and 11% above Speak No Evil for the same group of markets at current rates.
Overall, there's not the same nostalgia for this property internationally as there is domestically.
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