Before the Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie steamy lovefest, Wuthering Heights, takes over the world, this weekend belonged to K Pop group Stray Kids as their concert movie Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience which danced to a $19.1M global win from 61 territories, electrified largely by Universal International. The pic also had bragging rights for the No. 1 pic at the weekend Foreign B.O. with $13.5M, while domestic delivered $5.6M from Bleecker Street‘s new event cinema label Crosswalk at 1,724 locations. CJ has Korea but the movie didn’t fare that well over there with an estimated $227K. Japan didn’t go this weekend. For Uni, it’s their first K Pop movie.
Disney is claiming they’re the No. 1 MPA title for the weekend, (though No. 2 global) with Zootopia 2 which nabbed $16.8M WW ($12.8M overseas, $4M domestic). Zootopia 2 is now the No. 5 MPA release of all-time internationally with $1.388 billion, passing Avengers: Infinity War ($1.374Bn). Total global is $1.8B. Zootopia 2 remains the #1 film for the weekend in China, Japan (non-local) and Czechia.
Meanwhile, The Housemaid flies past $350M worldwide with a $16.5M global weekend ($14.7M abroad, $1.8M North America), with 20th Century Studios’ Send Help (which remained No. 1 stateside with $10M in its second frame) pulled in $16.3M WW for a running global take of $53.7M.
Housemaid‘s global has surpassed that of It Ends With Us ($350M) with $354.7M WW, broken out that’s $231M foreign and $123.7M domestic.
We’ll break down more Stray Kids and everything in a bit…
