‘Stray Kids’ Strut To No. 1 At Global Box Office With Near $20M; ‘Zootopia 2’ Roars To $1.8B WW; ‘The Housemaid’ Vacuums Up $350M+ WW – Update

UPDATED: Before the Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie steamy lovefest, Wuthering Heightstakes over the world, this weekend belonged to K-Pop group Stray Kids as their Live Nation concert movie, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experiencedanced to a revised $19.9M global win from 61 territories, electrified largely by Universal International. The pic’s foreign cume rose to an updated $14.2Malso No. 1 at the international weekend B.O. with domestic delivering $5.7M 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 $226K; the market led by local historical drama The King’s Warden with $4.9M. Japan didn’t go this weekend. For Uni, it’s their first K-Pop movie. In several territories, the movie is besting such comps as Taylor Swift / The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Break The Silence: The Movie, Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Moonage Daydream.

“We at Bleecker are ecstatic that our first Crosswalk release is dominating at both the US and global box office,” said Bleecker Street’s CEO Kent Sanderson. “The film worked in all formats as fans flocked to theaters to experience their favorite band in concert and we look forward to continuing its success in lockstep with our partners at Live Nation Studios and Universal.”

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 $16.4M global weekend ($14.7M abroad, $1.7M North America).

James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash pulls ahead of 20th Century Studio’s other pic in release, Sam Raimi’s Send Help, $15.7M WW to $15.3M WW. Respectively, that’s a fourth and fifth rank. Avatar 3 brought in $3.5M domestic, $12.2M (-40%) international in its eighth weekend for an overall global running cume of $1.439B WW ($391.5M domestic, $1.047B). Pic is the No. 11 MPA release of all-time at the international B.O passing Inside Out 2‘s $1.046B). It’s the No. 1 MPA release of 2025 internationally and globally behind Zootopia 2.

Though Send Help remained No. 1 at the domestic B.O. for the second weekend in a row, the Super Bowl, of course, hurt business with the 3-day coming in at $9M (not $10M). Running global take is $52.7M (broken out $34.8M stateside, $17.9M abroad).

Housemaid‘s global has surpassed that of It Ends With Us ($350M) with $354.6M WW, broken out that’s $231M foreign and $123.6M domestic.

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Imax screens repped 20% around the world for Stray Kids or $3.9M, making it the large format exhibitor’s biggest opening weekend ever for a Korean-language film. North America did $2.1M or 38% of the concert pic’s domestic weekend. Imax offshore markets were $1.8M.

Stray Kids sang No. 1 in Mexico ($2.3M) at 558 screens (incl. 24 IMAX and 27 4DX). The weekend performance was above Taylor Swift / The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. Stray Kids has now surpassed the lifetime of Break The Silence: The Movie, Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Moonage Daydream. Germany with $1.7M repped the best debut for a K Pop release ever at 331 screens (including 12 Imax hubs and four 4DX). In the UK & Ireland, the kids were also cool becoming the country’s highest-grossing K-Pop event release ever with $1.5M at 465 screens (incl. 50 IMAX and 35 4DX). IMAX accounted for 19% of the total and Cineworld’s 4DX screens took 7%. Italy took in $800K at 220 screens (including six Imax), surpassing the lifetimes of Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS Permission to Dance on Stage, Break the Silence: The Movie, and BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul. Stray Kids ranked No.3 in the market, behind two local titles, and achieved the highest location average of the top titles ($2.3k). Opening weekend also performed in line with Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour and BTS Yet to Come to the Cinema. Spain was $600K at 184 screens, ranking No. 6. Brazil was $642K at 506 screens (11 Imax), France $556K at 210 screens (8 Imax/3 4DX), Peru was No. 1 with $469K at 78 screens (1 Imax and 1 4DX). Chile was $421K and No. 1 at 132 screens (2 Imax and 9 4DX). Australia saw $411K across 130 screens, achieving the best location average in the market. Imax repped 32% in a massive over-indexing with the weekend result above BTS Yet to Come to the Cinema and the lifetimes of Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Break the Silence: The Movie. Argentina was also No. 1 for the K Pop kids with $366K at 120 (two Imax). Reports from theatres there indicate that fans are turning these screenings into parties, featuring singing and dancing, with many seeing the film more than once. Poland ranked No. 1 with $332K at 152 screens (eight Imax). Stray Kids there surpassed the lifetime of Taylor Swift / The Eras Tour.

The Housemaid remains No. 1 in Brazil in its sixth weekend, muy bien, with a 17% uptick from last weekend. UK is nearing $40M via Lionsgate, France has now crossed 4M admission ahead of F1 (cume there via Metropolitan is $35.8M). Germany was No. 1 again in weekend 4 via Leonine. Overall Latin America count $33.1M through distributor IDC which has a joint venture with Lionsgate.

Sam Raimi’s Send Help opened to No. 1 in the UK with $1.8M for the weekend $2.2M including previews, +114% ahead of Blink Twice+68% ahead of Ready or Not and +66% ahead of The Menu. It also opened as the #2 non-local film in Croatia and the #3 film in Bosnia. Overall foreign weekend dips by -45%. Other updated territory cumes are Mexico ($2.3M), Australia ($1.6M), Germany ($900K), Japan ($800K), Italy ($800k), Saudia Arabia ($700K), Spain ($700k), Netherlands ($600K) and Korea ($500K).

The rest are as follows:

6.) Shelter (Black Bear) $9M WW weekend ($16.8M Int’l, $2.47M dom), 36 terr., Global $26.8M WW ($16.8M Int’l, $10M Dom)/Wk 2

7.) Iron Lung, $8.5M ($1.75M Int’l, $6.75M dom), 20 terr, Global $37.5M (Intl $6M, dom $31.5M)/Wk 2

8.) Marsupilami (multi), 3 terr, France, $8M WW ($8M Int’l)/Wk 1

9.) Hamnet (Focus), 46 terri, $7.6M ($6.86M int’l, $770k dom), Global $70.6M ($48.8M Intl, dom $21.7M)/Wk 11
Italy bowed to $700K at 208 screens, ranking No. 7 for the weekend. Pic scored a strong location average ($3.4K). The weekend result is in line with The Brutalist and well above Belfast excluding previews. Turkey bowed to a strong $153K, ranking No.4 in the market. The weekend admissions total is above The Favourite, Marty Supreme, Conclave, Sinnersand more than 3x The Brutalist and Banshees of inishherin. Argentina opened to a very good $140K, No.4 in the market. In admissions, the result is above Conclave and The Brutalistin line with The Favouritejust off Poor Things and Sinners. The UK & Ireland added a strong $1.1M this weekend, dipping -42% for a No. 5 rank, behind two new openers Stray Kids and Send Help, The Housemaid, and previews of Goat. The running cume has now surpassed the lifetime Sinners to become the highest grossing BAFTA Best Picture nominee in the market. Performance is above The Favourite at the same point, having already surpassed the lifetimes of Belfast, Banshees of inishherin.

10.) Only Mine (Angel), 1 terr, $7M WW ($7M domestic), Wk 1

As we told you with a global weekend of $6.6M, A24’s Marty Supreme becomes their highest grossing movie ever with $148.8M worldwide and counting, besting multi-Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.