It was a fairly sleepy weekend at the international box office as summer draws to a close in many of the majors. Still, there were some strong holds out there and one big new milestone.
Marvel/Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps crossed the five-century mark globally, reaching $505.1M in the 6th frame. The offshore cume is $240.5M after adding $4.4M this weekend. That was just a 29% drop from last session, with significant holds in key majors including Brazil (+35%/No. 1 again), UK (-1%), France (-24%), Mexico (-33%), Spain (-36%), Australia (-37%) and Netherlands (-38%).
F4:FS remains the highest grossing superhero release of 2025 across the Latin American region as well as Italy and Thailand. It’s the No. 8 studio movie of the year both internationally and worldwide.
The Top 5 overseas for the family are: UK ($31M), Mexico ($28.2M), France ($16.2M), Brazil ($14.4M) and Australia ($11.4M).
New movies this session included Searchlight’s The Roses with $9.2M in 40 overseas markets ($17.2M global including the estimated 4-day domestic opening). The comedy update was No. 1 in the UK, Belgium, Netherlands and a handful of other markets.
Opening in about 89% of the international footprint, the start is comping ahead of Game Night in like-for-likes at today’s rates. In the Netherlands, the Olivia Colman/Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer posted the biggest opening weekend ever for Searchlight (excluding previews).
The Top 5 starts are: UK ($3M), Germany ($800K), France ($800K), Netherlands ($700K) and Italy ($600K).
Key markets still to release include Australia, Korea and Japan.
Holdover play for the studios was led by Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2 which added another six markets, including Germany. In total, 75 offshore markets rustled up $12.5M for a $103.5M international cume and $176.5M global so far. The overseas drop was a mere 19% while the sequel is running above the original, excluding China.
At present, the Top 5 markets are: China ($23.3M), UK ($15.9M), France ($10.5M), Spain ($7.2M) and Mexico ($6M).
Australia releases later this month.
New Line/Warner Bros’ Weapons put another $9.4M in the arsenal from 74 offshore markets, taking the overseas cume to $100M and global to $234.6M. The drop internationally was 30% with notable holds in some key markets including Brazil (-1%), France (-13%), Spain (-23%), Italy (-24%), Germany (-25%), UK (-26%) and Netherlands (-29%).
The Top 5 through Sunday are: UK ($13.9M), Mexico ($8.6M), France ($7.6M), Spain ($7M) and Australia ($5.9M).
Elsewhere, and before it debuts domestically in a little under two weeks, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle continued its Southeast Asia run via Sony/Crunchyroll, lifting the cume to $42M from nine markets after a $4.3M third weekend. The anime hit is now bigger than Incredibles 2, Ne Zha 2, Toy Story 4, Moana 2 and The Super Mario Bros. Movie across like markets. Among those are Hong Kong ($9.4M), Indonesia ($6.9M), Thailand ($6.5M), Malaysia ($5.9M), Philippines ($5.8M), and Vietnam ($4.4M).
In total, including non-Sony markets, comScore has the international weekend at $20.4M while the global cume on the Toho/Ufotable movie has surpassed $250M. Releases are still to come in North America, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, UK, Spain, France and Germany.
MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLE*Caught Stealing (SNY): $5.4M intl weekend (48 markets); $5.4M intl cume/$14.9M globalF1 (WB): $4.7M intl weekend (71 markets); $425.2M intl cume/$613.3M globalFreakier Friday (DIS): $4.6M intl weekend (50 markets); $50.4M intl cume/$130.9M globalJurassic World Rebirth (UNI): $4.6M intl weekend (83 markets); $517.3M intl cume/$855.2M globalMaterialists (SNY/A24): $4M intl weekend (58 markets); $56.1M intl cume/$92.6M globalSmurfs (PAR): $4M intl weekend (62 markets); $83.6M intl cume/$114.7M globalThe Naked Gun (PAR): $3M intl weekend (51 markets); $44.4M intl cume/$95.2M globalNobody 2 (UNI): $2M intl weekend (75 markets); $15.5M intl cume/$35.6M globalKarate Kid: Legends (SNY); $1.7M intl weekend (11 markets); $62M intl cume/$114.5M globalBring Her Back (SNY/A24): $1.3M intl weekend (30 markets); $19.8M intl cume/$39.1M globalSuperman (WB): $1.1M intl weekend (71 markets); $259.7M intl cume/$611.4M global*Denotes New
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