Quiet days on the international markets, waiting for the American summer blockbusters to return to bring millions of people into cinemas. The most important news is the passing of the half billion dollar threshold by Kung Fu Panda 4the fourth animated film to achieve the feat since 2020. The exact takings are 503 million dollars, which earns it third place in the ranking of the best global takings of 2024, but the goal is to surpass Godzilla and Kong: The New Empirewhich is less than twenty million dollars away and should be reached before the end of May.
Among the films released recently, Challengers opens with 25 million global dollars, a good figure that will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Good too Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire, which grosses another 15 million and rises to around 520 in total. Start from 8 million per The Fall Guy, arriving in the vast majority of markets in the next two weeks. Other global data to be updated are Ghostbusters – Glacial Menacewhich reached 188 million, Abigailat 30, Monkey Man at 32, Omen – The origin of the omenat 50.
Some interesting exploits for local titles: in France Here and there-basdirected by Ludovic Bernard with Ahmed Sylla, Hakim Jemili, opens with 1 million dollars while Village, directed by Stéphane Demoustier with Hafsia Herzi, Moussa Mansaly, Florence Loiret-Caille, Pablo Pauly, Louis Memmi, debuts with over 600 thousand dollars. Here is ours There is still Tomorrow it dropped out of the top ten but achieved a total gross of 4.1 million dollars, an absolutely remarkable figure: the film is now also available in the UK, and we’ll see what it is capable of. In Germany the takings of Chantal in Fairyland, which exceeded 22 million dollars and which saw a percentage increase of 10% compared to last week, a sign that word of mouth is causing attendance to multiply. Excellent debut in Spain for Dragonkeepera Spanish-Chinese animated fantasy adventure film, directed by Salvador Simó and Li Jianping, which opens with nearly half a million dollars.
