Hey, Oh! ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Conjures $264M+ WW Through Second Frame – International Box Office

UPDATE: Last week’s champ, and this week’s holdover winner, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, took in an estimated $28.7M overseas, keeping the momentum spurred by its recent world premiere in Venice. The offshore drop was 44% which is good for this sort of title.

The international running cume is $76.3M; and the worldwide total is currently $264.3M through Sunday. France was new this session with a No. 1 $4.9M and above all comps. Germany also gave the ghost with the most a No. 1 start of $2.3M. The UK held at No. 1 and is the lead market with $19.1M, followed by Mexico ($11.1M), Spain ($5.2M), France ($4.9M) and Australia ($4.8M).

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Imax added $4.7M in global box office for the 2nd frame, driving the worldwide cume to $17.6M.

Japan is set to release on September 27th and will be the last overseas market to open

Universal/Blumhouse’s Spak No Evil also started chatting overseas this frame in 73 markets and with a $9.3M start. The offshore debut is in line with recent horror comps. UK was the top opener at $1.84M. The global launch was $20.8M.

Continuing to perform in seeming lockstep for two very different genre propositions are Columbia Pictures/Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends with Us and 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Alien: Romulus.

The former has yet to release in Hong Kong and Japan and is showing strong playability with $7.3M from 61 markets this session. That brings the cume to $180.6M overseas and $325.5M worldwide.

Also after getting to the three-century mark last weekend, Alien: Romulus is now at $330.7M global, with $229.4M coming from international markets. The Fede Alvarez take is still sticking at the top of the charts in China, Japan and Korea (among non-local titles) in what amounted to a $6.3M overseas frame.

The overall overseas drop was 55%. The Top 5 markets to date on Romulus are China ($104.2M), UK ($16.7M), Korea ($14.5M), France ($11.3M) and Mexico ($8.2M).

Deadpool & Wolverine danced to another $5.7M internationally this session. That brings the overseas total to $683.5M and global to $1.305B. After eight weekends in worldwide play, the Merc now fronts the 23rd movie ever to cross $1.3B.

Top 5 markets to date: UK ($72.7M), China ($59.6M), Mexico ($43.5M), Australia ($42.5M) and Germany ($38.3M).

Meanwhile, Thalapathy Vijay-starring Tamil title The Greatest of All Time  continued to do strong business around the world, now with an estimated $49M global gross. It is the second biggest movie ever for Vijay. China’s Stand by Me debuted to $10.3M at No. 1. CJ ENM’s crime thriller I, The Executioner opened to $15.3M, in Korea — $444K was in Imax, marking the 9^th best local-language debut for the format in the market.

MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE
Despicable Me 4 (UNI): $5.6M intl weekend (84 markets); $580.6M intl cume/$940M global

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