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‘Gladiator II’ Scores Mighty $87 Million in International Box Office Debut
"Gladiator II" entered the international box office arena with $87 million, a powerful start for the quarter-century-in-the-making sequel.
The sword-and-sandal epic, starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, touches down in North America and Canada on Nov. 22, where it’ll compete for screens with Universal’s big-budget musical adaptation of “Wicked.” The story picks up two decades after the original as Lucius (Mescal), the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s emperor Commodus, enters the Colosseum and seeks to return the glory of Rome to its people. “Gladiator II” arrived far ahead of Dwayne Johnson’s Christmas-themed “Red One,” which added $14.7 million from 75 markets in its second weekend at the international box office.
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