World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Clayface’s $43 million start, a documentary’s roaring second weekend, Jailer 2 breaks a record & Musk’s AI Odyssey.
Morning, all. After yesterday’s lap of the world’s film industries, Monday means the weekend box office, and the Tamil film industry has made some history of its own.
The weekend box office, worldwide: DC Studios’ Clayface topped the weekend with a worldwide opening of $43 million, made up of $24 million in North America and $19 million from 76 other markets, against a net production budget of $44 million. It’s a bit under the $45 million hoped for, but with strong audience scores, it’s a solid start for a 15-rated body-horror film. The real story, though, is A24’s You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, which rose 25% in its second weekend to $19.5 million in North America, just behind Clayface. Laika’s stop-motion Wildwood opened in third place with $11.6 million in North America, plus another $3 million from 11 other markets. Paramount’s Street Fighter fell 72% in its second weekend to $8.6 million, taking it to $46.9 million in North America and $79.6 million worldwide. At the bottom of the pile (and I really don’t understand why – I loved it!), Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun opened to just $725,000 in 880 North American cinemas, and Helen Mirren’s A Talent for Murder opened to $718,000. The whole North American weekend came to an estimated $94.9 million, down 11.2% on last weekend but up 21.8% on the same weekend in 2025. These are Sunday studio estimates, so the confirmed numbers are due later today.
UK and Ireland: The official UK-Ireland chart for the weekend isn’t published yet, so I can’t tell you how Clayface, Wildwood, Klara and the Sun and Ali G: Who Iz I? fared. I’ll fold it in tomorrow if it isn’t out by tonight.
Jailer 2 breaks a record: Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 has become the highest-grossing Tamil film of all time in just 11 days. On Sunday it passed ₹710 crore worldwide (about $74 million), beating the ₹691 crore (about $72 million) of the previous record holder, 2.0, and making it the first Tamil film to pass ₹700 crore. According to Sacnilk, it has earned ₹398.7 crore net in India (about $42 million) and ₹243.5 crore overseas (about $25 million), and its second weekend added ₹64.35 crore net in India. Yesterday I said it was on course to challenge the record, and it took just one more day.
Musk’s AI Odyssey: Elon Musk’s Grok Imagine has released the first AI-generated “Odyssey” episode, months after Musk promised a full-length, “historically accurate”* (* or ‘white supremacist’ accurate, some might say) version of Homer’s epic by the end of the year. Musk repeatedly criticised the casting in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey ahead of its release, and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson has dismissed Musk’s opinions on art. Nolan’s version, meanwhile, is doing rather well without any help. It has now grossed about $1.79 billion worldwide, with roughly $625 million in North America and $1.17 billion internationally, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2026 behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the highest-grossing R-rated film ever and Universal’s biggest film of all time. In London, it’s also the highest-grossing film ever at the BFI IMAX, the UK’s biggest screen, with more than 100,000 tickets sold and £2.68 million taken by mid-August at 95% occupancy, though Dune: Part Three broke its first-day presale record last week.
Tokyo’s festival opens: As I mentioned yesterday, the Tokyo International Film Festival opens today with Zeze Takahisa’s Sukiyaki, and runs until 4 November.
Birthdays: Cary Elwes, the Man in Black in The Princess Bride, turns 64 today, and Rita Wilson of Sleepless in Seattle turns 70. Also celebrating is Seth MacFarlane (53), the creator of Ted.
That’s all for today.
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