World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Jailer 2’s first week, the AMAA nominations, Norway’s Low Expectations & Tokyo’s festival opens.
Morning, all. Sunday means our weekly lap of the world’s other film industries, and there’s a lot of Tamil rupees to count. We’ll cover the weekend box office numbers when confirmed tomorrow.
Tamil cinema: Jailer 2’s first week: Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 earned about ₹334 crore net in India (about $35 million) in its first seven days, according to Sacnilk, opening with ₹59.7 crore on Thursday 15 October and holding strongly through the week. It’s the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2026, and it’s on course to challenge the all-time Tamil record held by 2.0. I’ll bring you the full second-weekend numbers tomorrow.
Nollywood: AMAA nominations: The nominations for the 22nd Africa Movie Academy Awards were announced on Saturday 17 October. Uganda’s Slum Bomber and Kenya’s One Woman, One Bra lead with 14 nominations each, ahead of Nwamaka Chikezie’s To Adaego With Love, the most-nominated Nigerian film with 11, Daniel Etim-Effiong’s The Herd with 10 and Colours of Fire with nine. The ceremony takes place at the Lagos Marriott Hotel on 15 November. Meanwhile, faith-based hit Agbara Nla: The Return has now grossed ₦354.5 million (about $267,000) in Nigeria, according to its distributor, Nile Group.
Low Expectations opens in Norway: Eivind Landsvik’s Low Expectations, a Norwegian-Danish co-production that premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in May, opened in Norwegian cinemas on Friday. The film marks the feature debut of the singer Girl in Red. The Nordic Council Film Prize winner, Sentimental Value, will be honoured at a ceremony in Helsinki on Tuesday.
The Far East: Tokyo’s festival opens: The Tokyo International Film Festival opens tomorrow, running until 4 November, with Zeze Takahisa’s Sukiyaki, a film about the story behind Kyu Sakamoto’s famous song. It closes with Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie horror Colony, the centrepiece is Godzilla Minus Zero, and the gala screenings include Fjord and Wild Horse Nine.
Birthdays: Craig Robinson, who starred in Hot Tub Time Machine and Pineapple Express, turns 55 today. Katy Perry, who made her film debut as Smurfette in The Smurfs, turns 42.
That’s all for today.
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