Refresh for more…No payola going on here, just pure ticket sales around the world. Michael remained atop the box office charts like it was a 1982 Billboard music chart, reclaiming No. 1 in his fourth frame with $83.8M ($26.1M U.S./$57.7M Int’l in 83 territories) for a running global cume of $703.8M ($282.7M U.S./$421M overseas). The respective domestic and international weekend dips of -14% via Lionsgate and -31% via Universal is everything a competing studio can be jealous of. And get this, Japan, which is a bound to be a big grossing territory (Jackson’s finale concert doc This Is It made $57M there), doesn’t open until June 12.
Global Imax screens grossed $5.2M with North America ringing up $2M, as Lionsgate gained them back. Running cume is $60.4M WW for the pic in large format, $30.1M coming from domestic and $30.3M from international.
Stateside it’s the second No. 1 weekend for Michael.
After three weekends, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has catwalked past the half billion mark with an estimated $546.2M ($175.9M Domestic and $370.3M International). It’s the No. 4 MPA global release so far YTD behind Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Michael and Project Hail Mary. Global third frame was $69M WW ($18M U.S., $50.6M from abroad, -35%).
More…we’re not done yet.
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