{"id":508462,"date":"2026-03-02T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508462\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:04:09","slug":"scream-7-bows-to-97m-ww-pegasus-3-hits-half-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508462\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Scream 7’ Bows To $97M+ WW, ‘Pegasus 3’ Hits Half Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParamount\/Spyglass\u2019 Scream 7<\/a> scored the best opening year to date for a Hollywood movie with $97.2M at the global weekend box office. As we told you there were myriad records broken for both a Paramount horror pic opening and a Scream franchise movie. Our full analysis of Scream 7\u2018s international is here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, post New Year\u2019s titles from China continued to take spots in the overall global top 10, Comscore reporting that racecar movie Pegasus 3<\/a> zoomed into second with a $50.3M WW weekend, the bulk of which is China plus $806K from domestic. Maoyan reports that the running cume is well past a half billion at $554.2M. <\/p>\n

\n\tWuthering Heights<\/a> from Warner Bros\/MRC was third with $22.6M ($15.6M from 79 markets, -41%) and another $7M from domestic, -50%. Global stands at $192M, close to $120M of that from foreign. Top markets in weekend three were UK ($3M, -42%, 971 screens, $28.3M cume), Australia ($1.7M, -35%, 320 screens, $11.1M cume), Mexico ($1.2M, -40%, 1,317 screens and $8M total). By the way, as we mentioned in the Scream 7 report, the unrest from the killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel head Nemesio\u00a0\u201cEl Mencho\u201d\u00a0Oseguera Cervantes, began calming before the weekend, with people making their way back to the movies in a market that was ruled by Scream 7. Italy did $1.2M at 635, -64%, for a running cume of $11.5M. Germany was $904K, -47%, at 565 screens, for a running total of $6.5M. <\/p>\n

\n\tSony Pictures Animation\u2019s GOAT<\/a> in fourth count $21.3M around the globe in 54 territories and a running cume of $130.5M ($56.5M of that from offshore, close to $74M domestic). Foreign markets dipped 45% for an international weekend of $9.3M on 8,700 screens.\u00a0Domestic\u2019s third sesh was $12M. The UK grossed $1.2M in its 3rd\u00a0frame, lifting its cume to $16.1M, while France inched down -15% to add $1.1M in its third weekend for a total there of $4.5M. Other notable holds include: Spain (-0%), Portugal (-12%), New Zealand (-12%), Chile (-13%), Peru (-16%), Sweden (-17%), Taiwan (-22%), Denmark (-26%), Mexico (-26%), Italy (-29%), Colombia (-30%), Netherlands (-43%), and Austria (-46%). Upcoming markets for the Stephen Curry production include Australia (March 12), China (March 14), Saudi Arabia (April 23), South Korea (April TBD).<\/p>\n

\n\tChina\u2019s Blades of the Guardians based on a popular magna there took in $21.1M (largely China with $229K domestic). Pic\u2019s entire cume rises to $166.9M (mostly China except for $1.2M stateside). The average ticket price for Blades and Pegasus 3 is $6.41. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jessie<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in \u2018Hamnet\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFocus Features \/ courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside the top ten, but a great honorable mention, is Focus Features\u2019 eight Oscar nominated Hamnet which has accumulated $93.1M around the world to date. Fifty four offshore territories rang up $3M, a -54% decline, while domestic delivered around $155K at 285 sites. In\u00a0Sweden,\u00a0Hamnet\u00a0opened to $180k this weekend, across 160 screens ranking No.5 in the market. The bow was above\u00a0The Favourite\u00a0and\u00a0Poor Things, well above\u00a0Banshees of Inisherin,\u00a0The Brutalist,\u00a0Belfast,\u00a0and more than double\u00a0Conclave\u00a0(+118%). Hamnet also hit the stage in Korea with a $167K debut including $39K previews. The movie is playing into a national holiday on Monday across 350 screens.\u00a0Hamnet\u2019s opening weekend was double\u00a0The Banshees of Inisherin, having already\u00a0surpassed\u00a0Belfast\u2018s total lifetime. The Chlo\u00e9 Zhao-directed movie received excellent reactions in the market (CGV Egg 96%). Norway\u00a0delivered $164k this weekend (incl. $29k previews) across 150 screens at\u00a0No.2\u00a0behind\u00a0Scream 7. The start is well above\u00a0The Brutalist,\u00a0The Banshees of Inisherin\u00a0and more than double\u00a0The Favourite. WOM has been strong with leading media outlets rating the film an excellent 6\/6. Central America\u00a0grossed $75K overall at No.4, in-line with\u00a0The Brutalist\u00a0and above\u00a0The Favourite. Hamnet\u00a0has already\u00a0surpassed the total lifetimes of\u00a0Manchester by the Sea\u00a0and\u00a0Past Lives.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the bottom five are as follows per ComScore:<\/p>\n

\n\t6. The King\u2019s Warden (Korea) 4 terr WW Weekend $15.1M ($15M intl\u2019) , Global cume $54.8M ($54.2M int\u2019l, $0.5M dom)\/Wk 6<\/p>\n

\n\t7. Scare Out (China) 7 terri, WW Weekend $14.3M, Global Cume $160M ($0.27M U.S., bulk is China)\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n

\n\t8. Bonnie Bears: The Hidden Protector (China) 2 terr WW Weekend $13.2M, Global Cume $139.3M (majority is China)\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon<\/p>\n

\n\t9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert 48 terr, WW Weekend $8.67M ($3.5M dom, $5.1M int\u2019l), WW Global Cume $14.3M ($7.8M dom, $6.5M int\u2019l)\/Wk 2
Universal has overseas on the NEON handled domestic Baz Luhrmann documentary. Pic\u2019s forig weekend is well above\u00a0The Beatles: Eight Days a Week\u00a0and more than double\u00a0Moonage Daydream\u00a0at the same point. UK and Ireland made $2.5M ($1M from previews) at 700 sites ranking No. 3 behind\u00a0Scream 7\u00a0and\u00a0Wuthering Heights. EPiC reps the third biggesting for a documentary of all-time behind\u00a0One Direction: This Is Us and\u00a0Michael Jackson\u2019s This Is It.\u00a0EPiC\u2018s IMAX previews also took the\u00a0highest grossing week ever for a documentary in IMAX, outgrossing\u00a0Moonage Daydream. EPiC\u00a0is also on track to become the\u00a0highest grossing feature length documentary ever at the BFI IMAX in the coming days.\u00a0EPiC\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0first documentary ever to release on more than 600 sites in the UK & Ireland,\u00a0having eclipsed the previous widest opening documentary,\u00a0Oceans with David Attenborough\u00a0by over 100 locations. In\u00a0Australia,\u00a0EPiC\u00a0added $496K this weekend for a cume of $1.9M, having already\u00a0surpassed the total lifetimes of\u00a0The Beatles: Eight Days A Week, Amy\u00a0and\u00a0Free Solo.\u00a0EPiC\u00a0dropped -48% from last weekend\u2019s opening, and ranked No.4 behind\u00a0Scream 7, Wuthering Heights\u00a0and\u00a0Crime 101. Germany\u00a0opened to a strong $419K this weekend, including $50K from IMAX previews. That was well above\u00a0Moonage Daydream\u00a0and\u00a0Amy\u00a0and more than double\u00a0Beatles: Eight Days a Week.\u00a0EPiC\u00a0opened across 369 screens this weekend, including 14 IMAX screens.<\/p>\n

\n\t10. Night King (Hong Kong) 8 terr, WW Weekend $7.38M, Global Total $26.7M ($467K is from domestic). Through ten days, the Wai-Lun Ng directed comedy about night club that\u2019s trying to keep the lights on counts $20.5M in China alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount\/Spyglass\u2019 Scream 7 scored the best opening year to date for a Hollywood movie with $97.2M at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,47192,337,196102,38053,65750],"class_list":{"0":"post-508462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-goat","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-pegasus-3","14":"tag-scream-7","15":"tag-wuthering-heights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}