Fire & Ash’ $1B Offshore, ‘Housemaid’ Near $300M

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 billion mark at the foreign B.O., taking the global cume to the James Cameron-directed movie to $1.38B.

While Amazon MGM Studios’ Chris Pratt dystopian-future thriller Mercy toppled Avatar: Fire and Ash stateside in the latter’s 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 abroad, with Disney responsible for 10 of those. Avatar 3 remained No. 1 in Mexico, France, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Poland, Indonesia, Philippines, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium and 24 total 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 didn’t let up in its ninth weekend, 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 second consecutive Walt Disney Animation Studios title to do so after Moana 2 and its fifth overall. 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-grossing 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.

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Lionsgate’s The Housemaid in 74 territories gets closer to the three-century global mark, which would put it less than $25M away from becoming director Paul Feig’s highest-grossing movie ever, besting 2011’s Bridesmaids ($324.8M reported, unadjusted for currency swings). 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. Lionsgate is calling Housemaid Feig’s highest already, adjusting the global take of Bridesmaids to $289.3M accounting for currency swings and inflation.

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

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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, Buen Camino, with $86.8M and a fifth No. 1 weekend take of $2.6M), Australia did $146K for 14th place.

Anurag Singh’s Border 2 from Shree International minted $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) to become 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 combined to gross $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 eighth place and $42.3M worldwide cume for the 8x Oscar nominated Chloé 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 Inisherin and Tár 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 Tár .