‘Anyone But You’ Tops $100M Global; ‘Mean Girls’ Fetch In UK Debut; Queen Rocks For IMAX; ‘Aquaman 2’ Nears $400M WW – International Box Office
deadline.comSo, here we are in mid-January, and though we’re staring down the barrel of a tough year ahead, it’s not all wintry doom and gloom on an international box office (and combined global) level.
While we’re not in blockbuster holdover territory, we should celebrate the wins when they come. To wit, there was a new milestone reached this weekend for Sony’s Anyone But You, which, with $100.2M, has become the highest-grossing R-rated romcom worldwide since Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016.
Let’s also cheer that Paramount’s Mean Girls clicked with UK audiences in its launch and opened at No. 1 there. Also, Searchlight’s lauded Poor Things was tops in France, Freddie Mercury went supersonic in the IMAX edition of Queen Rock Montreal, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is nearing a milestone that might not have seemed possible from the outset.
See below for more on those titles, but let’s start with Miramax’s Jason Statham-starrer The Beekeeper which was the top Hollywood movie of the international box office weekend.
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