‘Scream 7’ Bows To $97M+ WW, ‘Pegasus 3’ Hits Half Billion

Paramount/Spyglass’ Scream 7 scored the best opening year to date for a Hollywood movie with $97.2M at the global weekend box office. As we told you there were myriad records broken for both a Paramount horror pic opening and a Scream franchise movie. Our full analysis of Scream 7‘s international is here.

However, post New Year’s titles from China continued to take spots in the overall global top 10, Comscore reporting that racecar movie Pegasus 3 zoomed into second with a $50.3M WW weekend, the bulk of which is China plus $806K from domestic. Maoyan reports that the running cume is well past a half billion at $554.2M.

Wuthering Heights from Warner Bros/MRC was third with $22.6M ($15.6M from 79 markets, -41%) and another $7M from domestic, -50%. Global stands at $192M, close to $120M of that from foreign. Top markets in weekend three were UK ($3M, -42%, 971 screens, $28.3M cume), Australia ($1.7M, -35%, 320 screens, $11.1M cume), Mexico ($1.2M, -40%, 1,317 screens and $8M total). By the way, as we mentioned in the Scream 7 report, the unrest from the killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel head Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, began calming before the weekend, with people making their way back to the movies in a market that was ruled by Scream 7. Italy did $1.2M at 635, -64%, for a running cume of $11.5M. Germany was $904K, -47%, at 565 screens, for a running total of $6.5M.

Sony Pictures Animation’s GOAT in fourth count $21.3M around the globe in 54 territories and a running cume of $130.5M ($56.5M of that from offshore, close to $74M domestic). Foreign markets dipped 45% for an international weekend of $9.3M on 8,700 screens. Domestic’s third sesh was $12M. The UK grossed $1.2M in its 3rd frame, lifting its cume to $16.1M, while France inched down -15% to add $1.1M in its third weekend for a total there of $4.5M. Other notable holds include: Spain (-0%), Portugal (-12%), New Zealand (-12%), Chile (-13%), Peru (-16%), Sweden (-17%), Taiwan (-22%), Denmark (-26%), Mexico (-26%), Italy (-29%), Colombia (-30%), Netherlands (-43%), and Austria (-46%). Upcoming markets for the Stephen Curry production include Australia (March 12), China (March 14), Saudi Arabia (April 23), South Korea (April TBD).

China’s Blades of the Guardians based on a popular magna there took in $21.1M (largely China with $229K domestic). Pic’s entire cume rises to $166.9M (mostly China except for $1.2M stateside). The average ticket price for Blades and Pegasus 3 is $6.41.

Outside the top ten, but a great honorable mention, is Focus Features’ eight Oscar nominated Hamnet which has accumulated $93.1M around the world to date. Fifty four offshore territories rang up $3M, a -54% decline, while domestic delivered around $155K at 285 sites. In Sweden, Hamnet opened to $180k this weekend, across 160 screens ranking No.5 in the market. The bow was above The Favourite and Poor Things, well above Banshees of Inisherin, The Brutalist, Belfast, and more than double Conclave (+118%). Hamnet also hit the stage in Korea with a $167K debut including $39K previews. The movie is playing into a national holiday on Monday across 350 screens. Hamnet’s opening weekend was double The Banshees of Inisherin, having already surpassed Belfast‘s total lifetime. The Chloé Zhao-directed movie received excellent reactions in the market (CGV Egg 96%). Norway delivered $164k this weekend (incl. $29k previews) across 150 screens at No.2 behind Scream 7. The start is well above The Brutalist, The Banshees of Inisherin and more than double The Favourite. WOM has been strong with leading media outlets rating the film an excellent 6/6. Central America grossed $75K overall at No.4, in-line with The Brutalist and above The Favourite. Hamnet has already surpassed the total lifetimes of Manchester by the Sea and Past Lives.

The rest of the bottom five are as follows per ComScore:

6. The King’s Warden (Korea) 4 terr WW Weekend $15.1M ($15M intl’) , Global cume $54.8M ($54.2M int’l, $0.5M dom)/Wk 6

7. Scare Out (China) 7 terri, WW Weekend $14.3M, Global Cume $160M ($0.27M U.S., bulk is China)/Wk 2

8. Bonnie Bears: The Hidden Protector (China) 2 terr WW Weekend $13.2M, Global Cume $139.3M (majority is China)/Wk 2

9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert 48 terr, WW Weekend $8.67M ($3.5M dom, $5.1M int’l), WW Global Cume $14.3M ($7.8M dom, $6.5M int’l)/Wk 2
Universal has overseas on the NEON handled domestic Baz Luhrmann documentary. Pic’s forig weekend is well above The Beatles: Eight Days a Week and more than double Moonage Daydream at the same point. UK and Ireland made $2.5M ($1M from previews) at 700 sites ranking No. 3 behind Scream 7 and Wuthering Heights. EPiC reps the third biggesting for a documentary of all-time behind One Direction: This Is Us and Michael Jackson’s This Is It. EPiC‘s IMAX previews also took the highest grossing week ever for a documentary in IMAX, outgrossing Moonage Daydream. EPiC is also on track to become the highest grossing feature length documentary ever at the BFI IMAX in the coming days. EPiC is the first documentary ever to release on more than 600 sites in the UK & Ireland, having eclipsed the previous widest opening documentary, Oceans with David Attenborough by over 100 locations. In Australia, EPiC added $496K this weekend for a cume of $1.9M, having already surpassed the total lifetimes of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week, Amy and Free Solo. EPiC dropped -48% from last weekend’s opening, and ranked No.4 behind Scream 7, Wuthering Heights and Crime 101. Germany opened to a strong $419K this weekend, including $50K from IMAX previews. That was well above Moonage Daydream and Amy and more than double Beatles: Eight Days a Week. EPiC opened across 369 screens this weekend, including 14 IMAX screens.

10. Night King (Hong Kong) 8 terr, WW Weekend $7.38M, Global Total $26.7M ($467K is from domestic). Through ten days, the Wai-Lun Ng directed comedy about night club that’s trying to keep the lights on counts $20.5M in China alone.