Apple’s ‘Napoleon’ Sets Thanksgiving Global Box Office Battle Plan Via Sony With $46M WW Start – Preview
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Getting a leg-up here on our Thanksgiving stretch preview, Apple Studios production of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon will invade the global box office via Sony this Wednesday, in what’s shaping up to be a $46M WW global start.
Split up for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, that’s $22M 5-day domestic, and $24M overseas. Note, it’s not the only wide release over the holiday: There’s Disney’s animated movie Wish, which we’ll tell you more about early next week and there’s the second weekend of everything that’s bowing today: Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trolls Band Together, Thanksgiving and Next Goal Wins.
Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, is on a 45 day-theatrical window, we hear, before it hits Apple TV+. We’re told the comp here both domestic and stateside is Scott’s House of Gucci which launched over the 2021 5-day Thanksgiving holiday worldwide when Covid was still top of mind for moviegoers.
That Lady Gaga-Adam Driver-Al Pacino-Jared Leto movie in unadjusted for inflation overseas grosses did $12.8M and another $22M in U.S./Canada for a $34.1M global start.
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