Refresh for latest…: Super busy weekend at the international box office with Marvel/Disney's Captain America: Brave New World and Universal/Working Title's Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy both making their debuts while Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 keeps zooming along — and also hit North America…

UPDATED 2 PM: “Insane!” That's the exclamation we keep hearing when it comes to the astonishing ascendance of Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2. In the early hours of Friday Beijing time, the animated sequel surpassed RMB 10B ($1.37B), according to figures from Maoyan. This positions it as the No. 3…

EXCLUSIVE: Since its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival in October, Swiss documentary Wisdom of Happiness – A Heart-to-Heart with the Dalai Lama has found peace at the box office with strong performances in Switzerland, Germany and elsewhere as overseas rollout continues. Autlook Filmsales…

UPDATED: As noted throughout the weekend, the big story coming from this international box office frame is the wild performance of Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 and its record-breaking run as it became the first movie to ever gross $1B in a single market. Current Maoyan estimates have the title at RMB…

There are more box office records for Imax coming out of the just-concluded Chinese New Year holiday with the company notching its biggest ever haul for the annual period. Grossing $53M, Imax exceeded its previous record of $34M, set in 2023, by a huge 57%.  Imax also delivered its highest…

Ushering in the Year of the Snake, China's Spring Festival 2025 has set a new record for box office during the annual holiday period. Total Mainland grosses reached RMB 9.51B ($1.3B) from January 28-February 4. This outstrips the previous record of RMB 8.02B. The new milestone was expected once…

Outside of China and the strong start for Lunar New Year titles, it was a fairly sleepy weekend at the international box office. There was some expansion and one new studio entry while most of the rest of the field is made up of holdovers from the end of last year. And yet, we've got some new…

China began ushering in the Year of the Snake last Wednesday, as local audiences sank their teeth into a host of new films with record-breaking gusto. The trend continued throughout the weekend with grosses for all films in release (including holdovers) reaching RMB 7B ($965.4M) from…

Chinese New Year box office started with a bang today in China, as Maoyan estimates 1.8B yuan ($248.3M) was generated for all films on day-one of the holiday period. This would mark a new milestone that well exceeds 2021's previous first-day New Year record of 1.69M yuan. For its part, Imax…

UPDATED: Still a lot of holdover business in the early part of the year at the international box office as we ride out late-2024 releases. Within that, Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King – which, recall, initially started softer than expected – now leads a global weekend for the 6th time in a…

UPDATED: As it's early January, we are still largely in holdover mode. But that shouldn't discount the performance of those movies that released at the end of last year and are still doing solid business. Among them are Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Also, as…

UPDATED: With this weekend's business, Disney's Moana 2 has topped $1B in global box office, becoming the third release of 2024 to reach the mark. This new milestone means Disney scored a hat trick of $1B worldwide grossers from 2024; the only studio with movies released during the year that crossed…