The sequel is approaching $500 million at the global box office, surpassing the 2021 film

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With strong control on the beach, Denis Villeneuve Sand Dunes: Part Two It's close to $500 million worldwide. Bring a weekend abroad $51.2 million Across 73 markets, down 40% compared to last session (-37% excluding China). International box office hits Sunday $289.4 millionand worldwide the current total is $494.7 million. The latter number means the film has already surpassed Villeneuve's 2021 film Sand dunes all over the world.

Internationally, in comparable markets and at today's exchange rates, the Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment sequel is tracking 67% ahead of 2021. Sand dunes47% larger than TRansformers: Rise of the Monsters20% more Godzilla vs. Kong7% above Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 And 3% ahead of both One ready player And Batman.

Japan The new arc was at this session at $1.7 million including previews; This is 22% higher than the opening weekend of Sand dunes.

Recently visited Villeneuve China Support for Sand dunes 2The second year frame there added $9.8 million versus a domestic cume of $36.1 million. Within just 10 days of release The second part Exceeded com Sand dunes The first and also became the best imported film of the year as well as the biggest ever in China for Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet.

Elsewhere, third weekend declines were impressive in a number of markets including the Netherlands (-24%), Singapore (-24%), Sweden (-25%), Germany (-27%) and Norway (- 29%), and Austria (-29%). -30%), New Zealand (-31%), Finland (-32%), Taiwan (-32%), Thailand (-32%), Korea (-33%), United Kingdom (-34%), Belgium ( -34%), Denmark (-34%), Philippines (-34%), Australia (-35%), Poland (-36%), Hong Kong (-37%) and Brazil (-37%).

Filmed in IMAX, the film has now grossed $104 million worldwide in that format; 15^y IMAX title to overtake the main event and 7^y The quickest to do this. The international total for the weekend was $11.4 million for $54 million so far. In China, the IMAX weekend took in $3.6 million, representing a whopping 35.5% of the total there, bringing revenue in the market to $12.3 million. In Japan, 50 IMAX screens generated an impressive 45% of the opening weekend total.

The other major player in this session is Universal/DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda 4 – he had $39.6 million International weekend as staggered overseas rollout continues. The decline in retention was 45% and the international value as of Sunday is $68.8 million to $176.5 million worldwide. It's especially noteworthy that China has held three days of previews ahead of the March 22 release and it now stands at $8.8 million (this is not included in the above totals). Also, of the second wave markets, eight recorded the biggest openings for the franchise and five set a record for a DWA arc including previews.

New markets included in this course Mexico At clear number 1. The total there including previews is $13.6 million. Germany It bowed to $4.2 million in line with the first Kung Fu Panda And more than double KFP3 Except for previews to set the second-best opening of the year — and with the school holidays just around the corner.

India It opened to $1.5 million across 1,295 screens. Friday, KFP4 Record 2^{Second abbreviation} Biggest opening day ever for an international animated film, 3^{Research and development} DWA's biggest opening day ever, 8^y The biggest opening day for an animated film in Hollywood and 2^{Second abbreviation} The biggest opening day for the franchise. Performance through Sunday is in line with KFP3 And Ice Age 5 And much higher KFP1, KFP2 And other DWA titles.

in another place, KFP4 In Vietnam I passed the age Frozen 2, Elemental, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, Despicable Me 3, The Secret Life of Pets, Beauty and the Beast, Despicable Me 2, Puss in Boots 2, Sing And KFP3 this week. After delivering the biggest opening for an animated film ever on the market, the film has now grossed $3.7 million, a performance in line with HTTYD3 And more than double all other major combinations at the same point.

Markets next include Brazil, Italy and China this week, followed by France, Australia, the UK and Korea through late March and early April.

Top 5 so far are Mexico ($13.6 million), Spain ($5.1 million), Germany ($4.2 million), Indonesia ($3.8 million) and Vietnam ($3.7 million).

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