{"id":262948,"date":"2026-02-01T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:36:08","slug":"send-help-28m-takes-disney-to-10th-no-1-frame-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262948\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Send Help’ $28M+ Takes Disney To 10th No. 1 Frame Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGoliath dominated over David this weekend at the global box office as Disney 20th Century Studios\u2019 Send Help<\/a> had the last laugh over YouTuber indie powerhouse Markiplier\u2019s Iron Lung<\/a> with a $28.1M worldwide debut ($20M domestic, $8.1M overseas debut from 47 markets) the latter estimated at a $21.7M global start from 11 markets for 4th place.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s a respectable start for Send Help, a movie which before P&A cost $40M. Also, the result is a win for a R-rated original movie. And c\u2019mon, that\u2019s a fantastic result for the less than $3M production Iron Lung. We\u2019re hearing from foreign B.O. sources that there were several sellout shows abroad for Iron Lung.<\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) \u2018Zootopia 2\u2019 and \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney \/ 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tSend Help takes Disney to its 10th consecutive week at the global B.O., and as of this moment, the Mouse House owns the top three spots with Avatar: Fire and Ash at $24.8M ($5.5M domestic\/$19.3M from 52 markets, -34% drop abroad) and Zootopia 2 at $23.1M ($5.8M domestic, $17.3M overseas in 52 territories, -18% abroad). Global rises for Avatar 3 to $1.41 billion, the 18th highest grossing of all-time ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4B). The James Cameron movie with $1.0185B is the No. 12 MPA release of all-time at the foreign B.O. ahead of Fate of the Furious ($1.01B) and Jurassic World ($1.018B). Imax\u2019s global network delivered $3M to Avatar 3 for a running cume for the large format exhibitor on the Na\u2019vi movie at $184M.<\/p>\n

\n\tSend Help opened No. 1 in Mexico ($1M), Kuwait, Thailand and Indonesia. It was No. 2 in Bahrain, Iceland, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia ($200K), UAE (non-local), Argentina, Brazil ($200K), Korea ($400K), India, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. The Rachel McAdams and Dylan O\u2019Brien movie opened #3 (non-local) in Australia ($800K), Japan ($400K) and Taiwan. Germany did $500K, Italy $400K, Spain $400K, and Netherlands $300K. Realize Send Help is in 80% of the foreign marketplace. It didn\u2019t play UK this weekend where Iron Lung planted its flag. The Sam Raimi-directed movie hits France on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n

\n\tZootopia 2 was up in its 10th weekend stateside at +9%. When does that ever happen for an animated movie on a non-holiday weekend? China was also up at +13%, still No. 1 there with the sequel\u2019s cume in the Middle Kingdom now at $631.2M. Zootopia 2 among non-local films in Japan was No.; pic\u2019s cume well north of $90M. The eighth highest MPA release at the worldwide B.O. stands at $1.77B with $408.8M from North American and $1.36B abroad. Other updated cumes are France ($74.6M), Korea ($56.2M), Germany ($48.5M), UK ($43.5M), Mexico ($40.2M), Australia ($27.9M), Brazil ($24.6M), and Taiwan $23.3M). <\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\tMark Fischbach aka Markiplier in \u2018Iron Lung\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarkiplier\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Iron Lung is calling domestic at $17.8M with foreign B.O. sources estimating $3.9M overseas in a limited rollout including UK\/Ireland ($1.2M, No. 4 behind The Housemaid, Hamnet and Shelter<\/a>), Australia\/New Zealand, Germany and Netherlands. That foreign start on Iron Lung is 10% ahead of Black Phone, 33% ahead of the start of The Monkey. From what we\u2019ve gathered it made an estimated $800K in Australia, $1.2M including previews for a No. 1 rank across 230 sites (+6% ahead of Longlegs, +18% ahead of Black Phone). New Zealand was No. 1 with an estimated $118K. Germany meh at No. 11 with $300K. Denmark expected to ring up $241K with sold out shows nationwide. Sweden, I understand, was booked late in 65 locations, but took off with $226K.<\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\tJason Statham and Bodhi Rae Breathnach in \u2018Shelter\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Smith \/ Black Bear \/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Bear\u2019s Jason Statham movie Shelter did $7.5M overseas (at 12,971 locations and 27 territories) to $5.5M in North America for a global opening of $13M for the $50M production which was funded by foreign sales. I\u2019m hearing that P&A domestic was around $15M, and if you want to go large with a Statham action pic, you gotta spend more (A Working Man was around $27M North American P&A).<\/p>\n

\n\tShelter played in UK & Ireland (it was No. 1 there with $1.3M ahead of Iron Lung and Primate, and 4% ahead of The Beekeeper and 43% ahead of A Working Man), Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, China, Netherlands, Greece, Israel, South Africa,\u00a0Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia\/Bosnia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and West Indies. Shelter was No. 1 in Saudi Arabia ($928K ahead of Send Help, and 78% ahead of comp The Accountant 2), No. 1 in UAE ($707K ahead of Send Help, 7% ahead of Accountant 2). Overall, the Middle East did $2.3M which is 40% ahead of The Accountant and in sync with The Beekeeper. China was a No. 4 debut with $2M, -37% behind Statham\u2019s A Working Man and -53% behind The Beekeeper.\u00a0The Netherlands bowed to No. 3 ahead of Send Help with $447K, 69% ahead of Accountant 2. <\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\tKali Reis and Chris Pratt in \u2018Mercy\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon MGM Studios\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios\u2019 Mercy did $5.6M abroad in 86 markets, with another $4.7M (-56%) in North American for a global second frame of $10.3M and running global cume of $41M ($21.5M of that foreign) for the net $60M Chris Pratt production (before P&A). France opened this weekend at 237 screens to $560K. Holdovers were China ($1.5M at 8K screens, cume $5.7M); Mexico ($360K\u00a0from 1,031 screens, $1.6M total); Germany ($320K\u00a0from 461 screens, $943K running total); UK ($264K from 437 sites, $1.5M total); Australia ($240K\u00a0from 264 screens, cume $1.2M); Japan ($190K\u00a0from 633 screens, cume $1.1M), Spain ($172K\u00a0from 272 screens, cume $753K), and Netherlands ($165K at 98 sites, cume $570k). Up next Korea on Feb. 4 and Taiwan on Feb. 6. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goliath dominated over David this weekend at the global box office as Disney 20th Century Studios\u2019 Send Help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,149386,409,111,139,69,59714,9434],"class_list":{"0":"post-262948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-iron-lung","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-send-help","15":"tag-shelter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}