World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Spider-Man: Brand New Day flies past $2.22bn worldwide and cracks the all-time top six, Insidious and Mutiny settle into the chart behind it, and Seoul’s Women’s Film Festival keeps the global picture rolling.
Morning all — Monday means confirmed numbers rather than Sunday guesswork and this week’s chart has a genuinely historic milestone buried in it. Here’s what happened in the world of movies during the last 24 hours.
Spider-Man cracks the worldwide top six: Spider-Man: Brand New Day topped the global box office for a fourth consecutive weekend, adding a confirmed $109 million to push its worldwide total to $2.22 billion — enough to leapfrog both Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the sixth-biggest film of all time. China remains its strongest overseas market at $221.4 million, with UK/Ireland close behind on $117.8 million, followed by Mexico, France and Brazil. It’s a comfortable weekend hold — its strongest yet, in fact, at just a 43% drop — and with only Titanic ($2.26bn) and Ne Zha 2 ($2.27bn) standing between it and fourth place, that particular milestone looks like a matter of weeks rather than months. Its North American tally alone has now passed $850 million too, making it the third-highest-grossing release ever in that specific market, but the real story here is how much of this success has been built well beyond America’s borders.
Insidious holds firm, Mutiny finds a smaller lane: Behind Spidey, Insidious: Out Of The Further opened respectably worldwide, with the franchise as a whole now past $800 million lifetime — a remarkable return for a series that’s never had a single entry cost more than $18 million to make. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey continues its own steady climb too, closing in on $1.5 billion worldwide and having already become BFI London IMAX’s highest-grossing film of all time in its home market. Jason Statham’s Mutiny, meanwhile, opened more modestly, its numbers still somewhat muddied by last week’s Amazon leak saga — worth watching to see whether its overseas performance ends up telling a rather different story than its opening frame suggests.
Seoul keeps the global festival picture spinning: Away from the US chart, the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival continues its run through to the 26th, with today’s programme including Yoshida Mayumi’s Canada-Japan co-production Akashi, a multigenerational love story spanning Vancouver and Tokyo. It’s a smaller, more specialised event than Melbourne’s two festivals last week, but a useful reminder that there’s always a fair bit happening beyond the Hollywood release calendar if you go looking.
That’s all for today. I’m off to write up my review of Tony which I saw with Coyote vs. ACME yesterday in a highly entertaining double bill.
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