‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Ignites $1B Abroad And $1.38B WW; ‘Housemaid’ To Become Paul Feig’s Highest Of All-Time; ‘Mercy’ Little $22M WW – Global Box Office

It’s another slow weekend at the international box office but one with a milestone, specifically 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash crossed the $1 trillion mark at the foreign B.O. taking the global cume to the James Cameron directed movie to $1.38B.

While Amazon MGM Studio’s Chris Pratt dystopian future thriller Mercy toppled Avatar: Fire and Ash stateside in its sixth weekend, the Na’vi prevailed at the global B.O. with $34.5M WW ($28.1M overseas from 52 territories/$6.4M domestic). Avatar: Fire and Ash becomes the 14th MPA title to cross $1B; Disney being responsible for ten out of 14 of them). Avatar 3 remained No. 1 in Mexico, France, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Poland, Indonesia, Philippines, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium, in total 24 offshore territories per those countries filing box office reports to Box Office Mojo. Domestic, which was walloped by the winter storm, stands at $377.9M.

Disney’s Zootopia 2 in its ninth weekend didn’t let up, still one of the main choices for families around the globe with the stateside cume hitting $401M and overseas now at $1.343B for a running global take of $1.744B. In regards to the four-century mark, that’s the fifth and second consecutive Walt Disney Animation Studios title to do so after Moana 2. Global breakdown weekend is $5.3M domestic with another $20M abroad (a -21% offshore decline) for a $25.3M worldwide weekend in the No. 2 spot per Comscore. Zootopia 2 remains the No. 1 movie in China, Japan and Denmark. It’s already the highest MPA animated movie in several markets including China and France, and we told you the sequel is the highest grossing Walt Disney Animation release of all-time in many markets including China, France and Mexico.

Lionsgate’s The Housemaid in 74 territories gets closer to the three-century global mark, which will then be less than $25M away from becoming director Paul Feig’s highest grossing movie ever, besting Bridesmaids ($324.8M). Domestic weekend is $3.9M in recent Comscore figures, overseas was $21.3M for a global of $25.2M for an international cume of $179.4M, domestic of $115.1M and global running cume of $294.5M.

The U.S. winter storms took Chris Pratt’s Mercy lower to $10.8Mversus the $12M outlook it began with on Friday. Eighty-one territories did $11.6M for $22.4M global. Amazon MGM Studios is building out its offshore network under Paramount vet Helen Moss, but in the meantime Sony is releasing their pics abroad. Individual territory breakout for the Timur Bekmambetov directed movie can be found here.

Cineverse’s Return to Silent Hill fared better abroad than stateside, $16M in 37 territories to $3.2M for a $19.2M global weekend. The pic cost $3.5M per Cineverse. Italy put up $420K (No. 8 in a marketplace dominated by the highest grossing local title of all-time in the country, Good Way with $86.8M and a 5th no. 1 weekend take of $2.6M), Australia $146K (No. 14 place).

Anurag Singh’s Border 2 from Shree International mints $16.6M abroad from 13 offshore territories with another $1.4M domestic (12th place) for $18M global opening in 6th place for the Indian pic. Blurb: Young Indian fighters prepared to protect their homeland from a greater threat during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Watch the trailer above.

Marty Supreme armed with nine Oscar noms is $27.4M away from overtaking the reported global gross of multi-Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once ($142.8M) as A24’s highest grossing movie at the worldwide box office; the Josh Safdie directed period comedy now at $115.66M worldwide and counting. Twenty six territories grossed $8.3M with $30M offshore. Add that to $2.9M domestic and U.S. cume of $85.66M, which puts the global weekend at $11.2M.

Focus Features’ stateside wide expansion of Hamnet is $1.85M (domestic cume of $17.5M), 35 international territories did $9M ($24.8M foreign cume) for a $10.85M global weekend in 8th place and $42.3M worldwide cume for the 8x Oscar nominated Chloe Zhao directed British period title. Hamnet had an outstanding start in Spain with $1.3M over 3 days, rising to No.1 on Sunday and taking the No.3 spot for the full weekend. It has achieved the highest per-screen and per-site average in the market. Opening weekend surpassed the lifetimes of The banshees of inishherin and Tar and was above all comps including Little Women, The Brutalist, The Favourite and more than double Conclave and Belfast. France had an excellent start with $1.0M from 120k admissions, taking the No.7 spot across 213 screens. Hamnet is delivering the highest per-screen average in the market and achieved a strong average per showtime, above Bugonia and Tar. Scores from both mainstream (4.1/5) and sophisticated audiences (7.2/10) are in line with or above The Brutalist, The Favourite, Phantom Thread, Nomadland, Tar and Belfast. The opening weekend is above Tar and Nomadland. Germany had a great start with $700K this weekend across 205 screens, including a long preview run. Hamnet launched across 205 screens and has delivered a strong 20% market share for arthouse circuit Yorck, which claims 4 of the Top 5 sites. The opening weekend is above The Brutalist, The Favourite, Nomadland and Belfast. In the UK & Ireland, Hamnet achieved an excellent -23% hold in Wknd 3. It rose to No.1 on Sunday with $0.8M for the day (-25%), ranking No.2 overall for the weekend.The weekend grossed $2.7M to reach $16.2M cume, having surpassed the lifetimes of Victoria and Abdul, The Banshees of Inishherin, Conclave, Mary Queen of Scots and We Live in Timethis week. Performance is above The Favourite and Belfast.

Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple took a -73% second weekend tumble with $3.4M and a $20.5M cume. Overseas in 62 markets and 7,200 screens did $6.0M with overseas at $25.3M and the global weekend at $9.4M and running worldwide tally of $45.8M. The UK grossed $1.7 million in its second session for a local cume of $7.8 million.

Paramount’s SpongeBob Movie: The Search for Squarepants notched No. 10 with a global weekend of $5.1M ($900K from U.S./Cananda) and running worldwide total of $153.6M. Sixty four territories in play posted a foreign weekend of $4.2M and an $84M running offshore cume.

Outside of the top 10, Sony Pictures International Productions’ The three??? – Island of the Dead (The Three Investigators – The Isle of Death) set a new franchise record this weekend as it opened to $4.1M from four markets. The opening is 16% above last year’s The three??? And The Carpathian Dog (The Three Investigators – Carpathian Dog) and 7% higher than 2023’s The three??? – Heir of the Dragon (The Three Investigators – Legacy of the Dragon), which went on to gross $13 million and $16 million, respectively. The film is the latest installment of the franchise based on the bestselling German children’s book series Die Drei ???.