Refresh for latest…: Continuing their success with anime fare, Sony/Crunchyroll’s release of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, has pushed the film across the century mark globally, reaching $108M worldwide this weekend.
From director Tatsuya Yoshihara, this feature sequel to the first season, Chainsaw Man had already been playing at the international box office, as we’ve reported. This session, it added cinemas in North America and another $14.7M from 46 offshore Sony markets.
Produced by MAPPA, the story of demon hunter Denji is now at a global Sony cume of $60.4M ($43.1M international, $17.25M domestic). Toho releases in Japan.
Europe and Latin America leaned in this frame, while Korea continues to embrace the movie – now at $18.8M through today.
Also in continued play, Blumhouse/Universal’s Black Phone 2 rang up another $10.5M for a $31.4M international cume to date in 74 markets. That’s in line with The Black Phone at the same point in release. Global is $80.4M after two weekends.
Mexico continues to dial in, reaching $7.8M to surpass the lifetimes of A Quiet Place Part II, 28 Years Later, Halloween Ends, Smile 2 and Sinners.
Behind Mexico, the Top 5 is rounded out by UK ($3.1M), Brazil ($2.2M), Australia ($1.8M) and France ($1.3M).
From Paramount, Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You swayed to a $10M debut in an initial 43 markets.
On a like-for-like basis that’s 10% above Where the Crawdads Sing and 23% above Challengers.
The Top 5 starts out of the 77% international footprint are UK ($1.75M), Germany ($1.65M), Australia ($1.4M), Mexico ($1.3M) and Brazil ($745K).
