MONDAY AM WRITETHRU: The MLK weekend box office might have been sleep in the U.S., but overseas, Disney continued to reign with milestones, Zootopia 2, as we told you became the highest grossing MPA animated movie ever with $1.7 billion, but also James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash rising to $1.3B. Between the two pics, Disney has had the No. 1 release at the global box office for the last eight weekends. Sony went largely global in its debut on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is soft stateside with $13M for the 3-day and $15M for the 4-day, but can relish No. 1 openings in the UK with $4.6M and Mexico with $1.5M. Note, while Sony is reporting those figures domestically, rival distributors see the 3 and 4 day on the Danny Boyle produced, Alex Garland penned zombie movie much lower at $11.9M and $13.4M. We’ll see what tomorrow AM brings. The global weekend, with the Sony reported domestic $15M 4-day, stands at $31.2M (a fourth place take among the major studios worldwide) with $16.2M abroad coming from 10,1K-plus screens in 61 markets. 28 Years Later opened to No. 1 in the UK with $6.4M back in mid-June, while it was No. 2 in Mexico with $2.7M ($3.3M with previews). Horror, depending on its subgenre, plays differently in myriad parts of the world, i.e. gore can work in Germany, but largely not Latin America (with the exception of Mexico). Supernatural horror rallies in the Catholic countries, Philippines and Asia. The last 28 Years grossed $80.8M abroad –$21M of that in in the UK-unadjusted for inflation for a global take of $151.3M. Next market for Bone Temple is South Korea. While the production cost floated out there is $63M net thanks to Uk tax credits (hearing TSG is covering half the pic’s budget), and another $70M P&A to market, the question is whether this part two profits. I’m told that director Danny Boyle, scribe Alex Garland and producer Peter Rice collectively get around $15M per picture. The notion per sources is that these movies could be made for significantly more, but alas the financial mishap that bidding wars create. As we told you, a great Cinemascore stateside at A- on Bone Temple, but it’s very hard to comeback and build an audience after the previous movie was received in an alright way. Perhaps it was better to date this movie out much later to give the 28 Years Later some momentum on streaming. By the way, Comscore is calling the 4-day domestic weekend $104.8M, +31% from the same frame a year ago. The 2026 running box office in U.S./Canada is $471.1M for Jan. 1-Jan. 18, +18% over the same period in 2025. Major studio global standings (list will update when regional pics roll in): As we told you stateside it’s the champ for the fifth weekend in a row. International had a -33% frame decline with holds in Germany (-14%), Spain (-17%), France (-28%), Australia (-33%), China (-33%), Brazil (-35%), UK (-36%), Korea (-43%), Mexico (-44%), Italy (-47%), and Japan (-47%). China leads territory cumes with $155.4M with France at $98.9M, Germany at $80.3M, UK at $51.4M and Korea at $51.1M. The pic in China was No. 3 behind Zootopia 2 which ruled and local Sam Quah crime movie The Fire Raven (which has a running cume of $52.3M). 2. Housemaid 71 terr, Dom $10.2M, Int’l $26.6M WW $36.8M Dom cume $108.8M, Int’l cume $138.6M WW Cume $247.6MAs we told you in the domestic column, the movie is now Paul Feig’s second highest grossing movie ever after Bridesmaids ($324.8M unadjusted for inflation, etc). The UK dipped -17% with around $3.9M for a running cume of $30.4M via Lionsgate UK. The dark comedic thriller was also the No. 1 in Brazil via IDC. The Housemaid in Latin America is even to slightly up, we hear. Muy bien. 3. Zootopia 2 52 terr, Dom $12M Intl $24.3M WW $36.3M Dom Cume $393.2M Int’l Cume $1.313B WW Cume $1.7BStill No. 1 in China and Japan. International weekend eases -24% with strongest holds in New Zealand (+41%), Czech Rep (+13%), Sweden (+11%), Hungary (+7%), Norway (+3%), Spain (+2%), Austria (-0%), Denmark (-8%), Portugal (-8%), Germany (-10%), Finland (-10%), Taiwan (-15%), France (-16%), Poland (-17%), Brazil (-17%), Netherlands (-18%), Turkey (-19%), Australia (-19%) and UK (-20%). 4. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Dom $15M, Int’l $16.2M, WW $31.2M 5. Marty Supreme 20 terr, Dom $6.66M Int’l $4.36M WW $11M Dom Cume $80.8M Int’l $21.5M, WW Cume $102.3MThe Timothee Chalamet starring crazy comedy is less than $40M away from overtaking the 8x nominated A Complete Unknown at the global B.O. Latin American opened this past weekend to $944K and the UK crossed $16M cume with another $2M added to the pic’s coffers there. That’s the bigger offshore territory to date for the Josh Safdie helmed A24 release. Next biggest grossing countries for the ambitious post WWII ping pong player are Mexico ($944K), Norway ($830K) and Israel ($671,5K). Next weekend, the pic opens in Australia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Italy, Portugal, Iceland, Finland, Romania and Baltics. A24 sold foreign here on the $65M net production. This is the second movie for A24 to fly past the century mark worldwide after the Sony offshore distributed The Materialists ($107.9M). 6. Mana ShankaraVaraprasad Garu 14 terr, Dom $880K Int’l $8.5M WW $9.38M, Dom cume $3M Intl Cume $29.7M WW Cume $32.7MThe Indian action comedy from director Anil Ravipudi and starring Chiranjeevi, Nayanthara and Catherine Tresa follows a security officer who is protecting his estranged wife and kids from a vengeful ex-cop.; he sees this as a chance to rebuild his relationship with them after six years apart. Check out the trailer: 7. SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants 64 terr, Dom $3.1M Int’l $6.1M WW $9.2M Dom cume $67.9M Intl Cume $77.1M WW Cume $145MThe $64M production before global P&A spend is now in 99% of all territories abroad. Turkey opened this weekend to $500K at 284 sites, ranking No. 3 (includes previews). 8. Anaconda 63 terr, Dom $4M Int’l $4M WW $8M Dom cume $59.8M Int’l cume $62.3M, WW Cume $122.2MA fairly packed house at the AMC Grove 7:30PM show last night with a lot activity in that multiplex for what’s a slower holiday weekend than usual. Top markets remain Australia ($9.7 million), UK ($7.1 million), Mexico ($5.0 million), Germany ($3.6 million), Brazil ($3.5 million). 9. Greenland 2: Migration 28 terr Dom $4.1M Intl $2.72M WW $6.82M Dom cume $14.8M Intl Cume $6.4M WW Cume $21.2MThis movie cost $90M, largely funded from foreign sales. This is not a win, and we’ve seen better from Gerard Butler in regards to these meat and potatoes action movies. 10. Hamnet 7 terr, Dom $1.67M Int’l $5.1M, WW $6.8M Dom cume $15M Int’l Cume $12.9M/ WW Cume $27.9MIt opened to $1.1M No. 7 in Australia above The Favourite, Belfast and more than double Poor Things. The pic opens across 134 screens this weekend, with expansion plans in week 3 when the summer holidays conclude. New Zealand debuted to $198K, No. 2 behind Avatar 3, and ahead of previous comps Conclave and One Battle After Another. Brazil bowed to $300K, No. 7 rank, above A Complete Unknown, The Theory of Everything and The Favourite there. Chile bowed to $75K, No. 6, surpassing the total lifetimes of The Banshees of Inisherin and Belfast after only 3 days. The UK holds with $3.5M and a running total of $11.2M. Misc: Fire Raven (China, one territory) Dom $0 Intl’ $5M, Intl/WW Cume $52.3MThe Sam Quah directed and written crime movie ranked No. 2 in China in its third weekend, $200K shy of Zootopia 2‘s estimated $5.2M No. 1 weekend win. Avatar 3 did $4.39M in the Middle Kingdom. Song Sung Blue 58 terr, dom $2.1M Int’l $1.7M, WW $3.8M Dom cume $35.4M Int’l Cume $12.8M, WW Total $48.2MKorea was the only opening territory with $61K at 128 screens. Australia’s cume at $5.3M surpassed the lifetime totals of We Live In Time and Materialists thanks to an extra $800K for a No. 6 rank. Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy. Comments On Deadline Hollywood are monitored. So don't go off topic, don't impersonate anyone, and don't get your facts wrong. Comment Name Email Website Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The zombie thing is beyond played out. It will be the #1 movie on Netflix once it moves there. So, 100% wrong. Just falls in the “I’ll watch this at home” category… and not a 4 quadrant film to begin with. A 1 quadrant film. Oof. And just like that, Bone Temple crashes and burns, pulling in just half of what the previous film made worldwide on opening weekend. With 28 Years Later having barely broken even last year, the only question that remains is how much money Bone Temple is going to lose…. and will Sony still move forward with the third film despite it? Bizarre that they released Bone Temple in January. Especially after 28 Years was widely perceived a snoozefest. I guess they knew Bone Temple was the superior film and hoped word of mouth would lift it, which could still happen and I hope does. Or invariably they don’t care so much about the box office numbers and will make profit via their new Netflix deal. Not sure why you need to be so negative about it. It’s a terrific film. Audiences and critics rate it. How about we hope it recovers rather than crow about its demise? Stating simple facts is considered being negative? That’s certainly a strange way of looking at it. If you want to pray for a miracle, that’s your business, but if you can’t handle the reality of it, then it’s really best to scroll on by without comment. Why would a fan pray for a miracle? They delivered a great movie. That’s all fans should care about. Sitting at home in the basement pretending you have insight & “live in reality”, is a complete joke. And I repeat: these movies will ALL be profitable one day and Bone Temple will be #1 on Netflix when it hits the platform. Do you understand the theater business is hanging by a thread? Why not comment whether you liked the films or not, instead of sharing numbers you have ZERO concept of how they work. Good grief, Anonymous. To quote that old commercial: “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.” No, they won’t become profitable on Netflix. They may make some of it back, but the notion of them making all that back is indeed laughable, and merely shows that you haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. God, the whole “you’re in a basement” bit that people do on the internet to try and discredit people they are in a debate with is so played out and makes you sound like a teenager. “Why not comment whether you liked the films or not, instead of sharing numbers you have ZERO concept of how they work.” Except that’s exactly how they work 🤣🤣🤣. Poor Anonymous. Kids like this trying to jump into the adults’ conversation with no conception of what they’re talking about is so adorable. Anonymous just be mad cause he knows Martin’s right LOL. It’s unfortunate that you’ve completely misunderstood. I understand how it works much more than others, so if I were you, I’d take your own advice and not comment on things you clearly don’t understand. Thinking that they’re going to be profitable once they hit Netflix is a laughable notion, and it’s unfortunate that you don’t realize that. Bone Temple’s competition is 2 of the biggest movies. Sony doesn’t rely on the theatrical release. VOD and Netflix make their movies profitable. If that’s what you want to hope for, more power to you, but the reality of the situation clearly shows that that isn’t so.