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Cars 2 was number one around the world this weekend, as PIXAR’s calculated attempt to improve on Cars’ relatively low international gross of $217m with an international storyline appears to be paying off. Its opening weekend, on what Pixar described as “25% of our potential performance.” , Was ahead of the comparable take for Cars. The film hasn’t gone down too well with critics, a first for Pixar, although you have to wonder if that’s as much a backlash against the perceived calculation of the plot(a spy plot wrapped around Lightening McQueen’s participation in a World Grand Prix, that allows the characters to both travel the world and involve far more popular and widespread car racing than the original’s NASCAR, which is next to unheard of in much of the world) as to the actual entertainment value / quality of the film itself.
International champ for the past two weekends, Kung Fu Panda 2, took a massive hit in North America, thanks to the arrival of Cars 2, but held up well in the rest of the world, slipping back to number 2 as it celebrated crossing the $300m barrier overseas with a $37m weekend. With $340m there and $493m worldwide the film is likely to pass the first film’s $416m international gross; however it’s puzzling performance in N. America, despite far superior reviews to Cars 2, means it may struggle to reach the global total of $631m reached by the original.
The Hangover Pt II continues to pull further away from the Hangover’s $467m and joins Pirates 4 in reminding critics everywhere that if the public are interested in seeing a film there’s nothing that their harsh words can do about it.
Bad Teacher & Bridesmaids continued their slow roll outs around the world and are doing very nicely thank you. Just under $13m international from Bad Teacher and under $12m for Bridesmaids (over half of which came from its UK debut) is good news for both films as Bridesmaids tries to replicate its American success and Bad Teacher makes its $20m budget seem like a very wise investment indeed.
International
Film | Weekend Gross | Total Gross | Budget | |
1 | Cars 2 | $42,900,000 | $42,900,000 | $200m |
2 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $37,000,000 | $340,000,000 | $150m |
3 | The Hangover Pt. II | $15,600,000 | $283,200,000 | $80m |
4 | Pirates of The Caribbean 4 | $13,500,000 | $756,100,000 | $250m |
5 | Bad Teacher | $12,900,000 | $18,300,000 | $20M |
6 | Bridesmaids | $11,500,000 | $21,300,000 | $32.5m |
7 | X-Men: First Class | $12,890,000 | $186,000,000 | $160m |
8 | Super 8 | $10,500,000 | $36,000,000 | $50m |
9 | Green Lantern | $7,100,000 | $29,400,000 | $200m |
10 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | $3,380,000 | $4,600,000 | $55m |
X-Men First class passed a significant milestone as it got ever closer to another; passing the $300m mark and is a number of days from passing the international grosses of X2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine to be the 2nd highest ‘foreign’ grosser in the X-Men series (unadjusted of course).
Super 8 has a fair number of countries yet to open, but never-the-less hasn’t fared as well overseas as it has domestically. In a summer where the trend has been for films to do significantly better abroad (Pirates 4, Kung fu Panda 2, The Hangover Pt II, Thor, X-Men, Fast 5) Super 8 stands out as a major release that may not manage the same feat; if so its final tally may be looked upon as disappointment, even though it cost a relatively modest $50m to produce.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins has only been released in a handful of countries so far so it still has every chance of making up for its lacklustre Domestic performance with a decent foreign run. (Still seems like the film should have been released at Christmas time!)
Finally to poor old Green Lantern: Warner Brothers may be planning to continue with their plans for Green Lantern sequel, but the film isn’t doing any better in the rest of the world. In fact as American super hero movies tend to take less abroad than domestically (especially the first film) it is doing even worse. A 60% drop in the UK has been mirrored elsewhere and the 16 territories where it’s been released so far saw their takings drop from just under $17m last weekend to $7.1m.
As always the totals so far are estimates and an update with final figures will follow in a day or so.
Worldwide
Film | Weekend Gross | Total Gross | Budget | |
1 | Cars 2 | $110,900,000 | $110,900,000 | $200m |
2 | Bad Teacher | $43,900,000 | $49,300,000 | $20M |
3 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $41,150,000 | $493,052,000 | $150m |
4 | The Hangover Pt II | $21,500,000 | $527,143,000 | $80m |
5 | X-Men: First Class | $19,490,000 | $318,815,000 | $160m |
North America
Film | Weekend Gross | Total Gross | Budget | |
1 | Cars 2 | $68,000,000 | $68,000,000 | $200m |
2 | Bad Teacher | $31,000,000 | $31,000,000 | $20m |
3 | Green Lantern | $18,400,000 | $89,311,000 | $200m |
4 | Super 8 | $12,100,000 | $95,186,000 | $50m |
5 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | $10,300,000 | $39,448,000 | $55m |
6 | X-Men: First Class | $6,600,000 | $132,815,000 | $160m |
7 | The Hangover Pt. II | $5,900,000 | $243,943,000 | $80m |
8 | Bridesmaids | $5,400,000 | $146,659,000 | $32.5m |
9 | Pirates of The Caribbean 4 | $4,700,000 | $229,060,000 | $250m |
10 | Midnight In Paris | $4,500,000 | $28,580,000 | $30m |
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