World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Resident Evil’s franchise-record run, Other Mommy (jump-)scares up a hit, The Social Reckoning flops, Tarantino’s West End play, the UK picks its Oscar entry & Mulholland Drive turns 25.
Morning, all. After yesterday’s lap of the world’s other film industries, Monday means the weekend box office. It’s a tale of one horror film that did exactly what horror films do, and one Aaron Sorkin drama that very much didn’t.
The weekend box office, worldwide: The global headline is Resident Evil. Zach Cregger’s reboot topped the mainland China chart with RMB 81.2 million ($12.1 million) over the weekend, which accounted for two-thirds of its worldwide weekend and took its worldwide total to a franchise record of $320 million. Traces of Justice slipped to second in its second weekend with $8.3 million, taking it to $73.4 million in mainland China since opening on 1 October. China’s overall weekend dropped to $30.8 million as the National Day rush faded, and the year-to-date total stands at $4.63 billion, down 29.4% on 2025. Elsewhere, Other Mommy opened to a worldwide total of $45.19 million, made up of $27.5 million in North America and $17.69 million from markets outside North America, against a budget of around $19 million, with 50 international markets in the mix. That’s all the more remarkable given that audiences gave it a D+ CinemaScore. Boxoffice Pro puts its UK and Ireland opening at an estimated $2.6 million. The Social Reckoning opened to $5.5 million in North America (fifth place) and $3.5 million from 29 markets outside it, a $9 million worldwide start. Verity held second in North America with $11.5 million in its second weekend, down 64%, with $53.9 million in North America to date and $113 million worldwide. The whole North American weekend came in at roughly $85.2 million, up 19.2% on the same weekend in 2025. These are Sunday studio estimates, with the confirmed figures 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 The Uprising and the others fared. I’ll fold it in as soon as it lands. Sony opened The Social Reckoning in 607 cinemas, ahead of Other Mommy in 523 and The Uprising in 486, so there was plenty of choice.
The UK’s Oscar entry: Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals for a Revolution has been selected as the UK’s entry for the international feature Oscar by a committee of BAFTA film committee members. Ahangarani, 42, wrote and edited the documentary in the UK, after leaving Iran, and it retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history through five portraits of her relatives and mentors. It won the L’Œil d’or for best documentary at Cannes and was released in the UK and Ireland on 25 September by Sony Pictures Classics. It’s in Persian and English, which is what makes a British film eligible for the category.
Tarantino’s West End play lands its star: Movie adjacent, but the producers announced on Sunday that Sacha Baron Cohen will star in the title role of Quentin Tarantino’s first stage play, The Popinjay Cavalier. It’s the stage debut for Baron Cohen, who says he said yes before Tarantino had even got started on the swearing. It begins previews at London’s Phoenix Theatre on 23 February and opens on 18 March, booking until 13 June 2027. It’s a comedy of deception and disguise, set in 1830s Europe and inspired by classic swashbucklers, presented by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sonia Friedman Productions. Tickets are on sale today from £25, with more than 16,000 priced under £50. I’ve no idea what Tarantino does with a swashbuckler, but I’ll be refreshing the booking page at noon.
Twenty-five years of Mulholland Drive: David Lynch’s dreamlike Hollywood nightmare opened in the US 25 years ago this week. It began life as a TV pilot that ABC rejected as too bizarre, and Lynch turned it into a film with French funding. It shared the Best Director prize at Cannes and later earned Lynch an Oscar nomination for Best Director. Naomi Watts and Laura Harring are extraordinary, Angelo Badalamenti’s score is unforgettable, and critics regularly vote it one of the best films of the 21st century. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know that “it’s a mystery film about an actress in Hollywood” explains almost nothing.
Birthdays: Hugh Jackman, who turns 58 today, is the star of The Greatest Showman and Logan, and Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games turns 34. Also celebrating are Hiroyuki Sanada (66), star of Shōgun, and Insidious actress Lin Shaye (83).
That’s all for today.
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