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SUNDAY UPDATE: No anxiety here as Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 positively crushed its opening with a $295M worldwide debut. That includes an astonishing $140M from only 38 international box office markets. The film, which has exceeded all expectations, continued to spread joy around the globe throughout…

UPDATED: Sony's Bad Boys: Ride or Die pummeled pre-weekend opening projections, coming in with a $104.6M global bow, including $48.6M from the international box office. While the overseas debut is slightly off 2020’s Bad Boys for Life which did $50.3M in like-for-like offshore markets at today's exchange…

MONDAY AM: For those keeping track, Paramount’s IF did not push Warner Bros.’ Furiosa into third, but the Ryan Reynolds starring, John Krasinski written/produced/directed title did put up a great hold in weekend 3 with -35%. Finals this AM for the top three pics are Sony’s The Garfield Movie at $14M, -42%…

UPDATE: It may be a stretch, but we could coin a new phrase and call this the cat days of spring. To wit: Sony/Alcon's The Garfield Movie, which began early overseas release last month, took the No. 1 spot for Hollywood on the domestic, international and global charts this frame. The offshore session…

TUESDAY PM: So, at the end of the day, The Garfield Movie did not beat Warner Bros’ Furiosa for the No. 1 spot over an extremely poor Memorial Day weekend that saw all movies gross $132.1M per ComScore. Here’s the good news: It wasn’t as low as Memorial Day weekend 2021 when theaters were reopening post…

UPDATED: Warner Bros' Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was greeted with a very warm reception during its Cannes Film Festival world premiere in an early showcase last week, and amid much love for franchise architect George Miller. It has followed up with strong critical and social scores. Nevertheless, in this…

SATURDAY AM: This weekend at the Memorial Day box office, the film industry seems to be questioning its existence, ready to jump out of a window. How can a genius, George Miller-directed tentpole prequel to the multi-Oscar winning Mad Max: Fury Road with great reviews and 4 1/2 stars PostTrak exits not be…

There will be moviegoers at the Memorial Day weekend box office; the industry can be thankful for that. Just not as many as the previous two years when the entire 4-day frame exceeded $200M+. With Warner Bros’ prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Alcon/Sony’s The Garfield Movie hitting marquees, the…

Refresh for latest…:  After starting early offshore release on John Krasinski's IF last weekend, Paramount expanded the imaginary friends film to another 56 international box office markets this session. The overseas frame was worth $20M, bringing the international running cume to $24M. With domestic's…

SUNDAY UPDATE AFTER SATURDAY EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios/Disney's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has dawned to a $129M global debut, swinging in with $72.5M from 52 international box office markets and $56.5M domestically. The worldwide start makes it the 3rd biggest global bow of the…

After debuting early last weekend, Universal’s The Fall Guy expanded to 78 overseas markets during its sophomore session, adding $25.4M for a running total of $36.9M at the international box office. That's in line with Bullet Train and above The Lost City at the same point in release. Globally, the David…

EXCLUSIVE: Film projects with genre supremos James Wan, Sam Raimi and Roy Lee attached as producers are set to be turned into video games by ambitious new Sino-American fund Stars-Hana, which we revealed in October. The fund combines Peter Luo’s Stars Collective, Chinese firm Hana Investment and…