Over There: International Box Office Report

By Edwin Davies

June 6, 2016

Finally Sansa has some worthy people on her side!

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After being deposed by Alice Through The Looking Glass last weekend, X-Men: Apocalypse returned to the top spot with $84.4 million, much of which came from an impressive $59 million debut in China. That's welcome news considering that the latest instalment in Fox's venerable mutant showcase has underperformed compared to its predecessor, and needs at least half a billion dollars worldwide to have any shot at a profit. Currently, it has $286 million from overseas and $402.4 million when US numbers are factored in, so even if it shoots under the $513.9 million that Days of Future Past earned internationally two years ago, it should do just well enough to justify letting Bryan Singer move the series into the '90s in the next film (which will hopefully just consist of the characters watching their own rad cartoon.)

Second place goes to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, a strong contender for the most exhausting title I've ever had to type for this column. TMNT:OOTS (oof, that's not much better) earned $34 million from 41 territories, which is slightly less than what the first film debuted to back in 2014. However, that film opened later in the summer when more kids are out of school, so Paramount's plan this time seems to be to try and make this release more of a marathon than a sprint. They'll also be hoping to build on the first film's success in China, which provided $62.1 million of the $302.1 million that TMNT earned overseas. Like Apocalypse, Out of the Shadows probably needs to earn around $450-500 million to see any profit, and its current global total of $69.2 million is something of a soft start.

In third is another sequel that needs to earn a lot of money to justify its existence (hey, I can see a depressing trend forming!) in the form of Alice Through The Looking Glass. Last week's champion shrinks down this week like someone eating a magic cake, taking a pretty weak $30.9 million for a new international total of $125.5 million. Combined with its anemic US gross, its total of $176.2 million is roughly $300 million short of where it needs to end up, and short of a heroic turnaround in Asia - which is possible since the first film did very well in South Korea and Japan, where Looking Glass won't open until later in its run - then this is going to be a costly misstep for all involved.




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Warcraft continues to do okay overseas ahead of its US debut this week. It earned $29.9 million, good for fourth place and swelling its total to $70 million to date. It still hasn't opened in most territories, so this one is shaping up to be at least a moderate success for Universal, even if it's too early to tell if it will be the franchise-launcher that they dearly want it to be.

The Angry Birds Movie is fifth, as the adaptation of the popular app looks to topple Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (global: $336.3 million) to become the highest grossing videogame adaptation ever. That's an admittedly low bar in the world of blockbuster entertainment, but an achievable one since the film has so far earned $196.8 million internationally and $283.4 million worldwide, all off a $73 million budget.


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