‘Backrooms’ $118M WW Bonanza; ‘Obsession’ Obsessed With $148M WW; ‘Michael’ Nearing $900M WW – Global Box Office Update

REFRESH FOR UPDATES…Backrooms wasn’t just a stateside sensation, rather the top A24 opening in over 30 countries across Latin America, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, South Korea, Middle East, Scandinavia, Taiwan, Israel, and Turkey.

As we told you global came in at $118M for the Kane Parsons movie, of which $36M came from abroad. In regards to that foreign take, it outstripped the first weekend of the previous big horror pic opening this year, Paramount’s Scream 7 which was $33.1M. The global start here is also ahead of Scream 7‘s franchise record start of $97.1M WW– which was 2026’s previous big opening for a horror movie.

Versus other comps, Backrooms outgrossed Weapons (+62%), Scream 7 (+22%), Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (+5%), and Final Destination: Bloodlines (+4%), all of which opened across wider international footprints in their first frames.

LatAM led all territories with $12.7M, the No. 1 pic in the region overall, more than 3x the previous biggest A24 title opening. Latin America on Scream 7 was $7.7M in its first frame.

In the UK, the film also ranked #1 overall with $5.6M. Not only is this the highest grossing opening weekend for an A24 title in the territory, but also the best horror opening of the year so far besting Scream 7‘s $5.3M.

Backrooms also led Australia/New Zealand with $4.4M, making it the second highest grossing horror title of the decade and nearly doubling the previous biggest opening weekend for an A24 title. Scream 7 did $2.5M there in Australia in its first frame back at the end of February.

Other territory shoutouts for Backrooms are South Korea ($2.7M / No. 2, but beating Mandalorian and Grogu‘s No. 3 $1M take), Middle East ($2.4M /No. 2), Scandinavia ($2.2M / No. 1), and Italy ($2M / No. 1, ahead of Scream 7‘s $1.8M).

Next weekend, the Kane Parsons directed movie opens doors in Spain, Russia & CIS, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Slovenia. France, Germany, Poland, and Belgium will follow two weeks later.

Disney’s Stars Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu saw an international weekend of $27.8M in 52 territories, drop 53%. Total global weekend was $52.8M which also includes the $25M, -69% tumble in the North American. Running global is $246.6M with $109.2M from abroad, $137.4M domestic.

Disney says that Mando and Baby Yoda are still the top non-local movie this weekend in France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, NZ, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Updated total cumes are UK ($15M), Germany ($11.2M), Japan ($9.6M), China ($9.2M), Australia ($7.7M), France ($7.1M), Mexico ($5.9M), Spain ($3.9M), Italy ($2.9M) and Poland ($2.1M).

YouTube fever isn’t just a North American thing, but around the globe with Focus Features’ Obsession minting $40.2M from both Universal and non-Universal territories this weekend, after eight new markets opening for a total count of 45 territories. Global for the Curry Barker movie stands at $148M; it has a way to go before toppling London Has Fallen ($206M) and Downton Abbey ($195M) as Focus’ highest grossing movie of all-time. However, in the U.S., the horror romance is the best that Focus has ever seen.

Lionsgate and Universal’s Michael continues to be more epic than Epic Records with a running global cume of $846.2M, $339.9M and more than a half billion abroad with $506.3M. And Japan hasn’t even opened yet. It’s looking really good for producer Graham King to beat his own box office records with Michael poised to dance past Bohemian Rhapsody‘s $911M all-time record for a musical biopic.

Global weekend for Michael was $31.8M with $20.1M from 83 offshore territories and 8,304 locations in its sixth weekend.

Notables for the Antoine Fuqua directed more include UK with a weekend 6 of $2.3M, despite the onslaught of sunny weather for a $64.7M cume, well ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody. Australia with a great sixth frame of $1.8M and $29M cume also above the Freddy Mercury biopic and Oppenheimer. Brazil with $1.5M and a $30.5M cume, beating Despicable Me 4 to become Universal’s highest grossing movie in the market of all-time. Korea added $1.3M for a $10.3M cume. Sixth weekend in France is $1.2M with a near $51M total, yes, ahead of both Oppenheimer and Bohemian Rhapsody. Mexico has $1.1M for a $30.6M cume, ahead of both those comps as well. Germany, the most toured Jackson country, is $1.1M in weekend 6 with a $31.7M cume ahead of BoRhap.

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