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’28 Years Later’ Rages To $60M Global Bow; ‘Elio’ Misses Liftoff With $35M; ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Flies To $358M & ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Tops $910M WW – International Box Office
Danny Boyle and Sony’s 28 Years Later came alive with an estimated $60M worldwide opening while Pixar/Disney’s Elio launched to a soft $35M global
It’s bigger than horror franchise films A Quiet Place: Part II(+13%), Evil Dead Rise(+24%) and Smile 2(+29%), all in like-for-like markets at current exchange rates. The other new opener this weekend, Pixar/Disney’s Elio did not meet expectations, lifting off with$35M global, of which a soft$14M was from 43 material overseas markets (80% of the footprint with China, Japan and Spain to come later). Note that Elio, which skews young, opened into an international marketplace where kids’ school holidays have largely not yet begun.
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