Before the Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie steamy lovefest, Wuthering Heights, takes over the world, this weekend belonged to K-Pop group Stray Kids as their Live Nation concert movie, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, danced to a $19.1M global win from 61 territories, electrified largely by Universal International. The pic also had bragging rights for the No. 1 pic at the weekend foreign B.O. with $13.5M, while domestic delivered $5.6M from Bleecker Street‘s new event cinema label Crosswalk at 1,724 locations.
CJ has Korea but the movie didn’t fare that well over there with an estimated $227K (we’re still figuring out why that is). Japan didn’t go this weekend. For Uni, it’s their first K-Pop movie. In several territories, the movie is besting such comps as Taylor Swift / The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Break The Silence: The Movie, Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Moonage Daydream.
Disney
Disney is claiming they’re the No. 1 MPA title for the weekend, (though No. 2 global) with Zootopia 2 which nabbed $16.8M WW ($12.8M overseas, $4M domestic). Zootopia 2 is now the No. 5 MPA release of all-time internationally with $1.388 billion, passing Avengers: Infinity War ($1.374Bn). Total global is $1.8B. Zootopia 2 remains the #1 film for the weekend in China, Japan (non-local) and Czechia.
Meanwhile, The Housemaid flies past $350M worldwide with a $16.5M global weekend ($14.7M abroad, $1.8M North America), with 20th Century Studios’ Send Help (which remained No. 1 stateside with $10M in its second frame) pulled in $16.3M WW for a running global take of $53.7M (broken out $35.8M stateside, $17.9M abroad).
Housemaid‘s global has surpassed that of It Ends With Us ($350M) with $354.7M WW, broken out that’s $231M foreign and $123.7M domestic.
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Imax screens repped 20% around the world for Stray Kids or $3.9M, making it the large format exhibitor’s biggest opening weekend ever for a Korean-language film. North America did $2.1M or 38% of the concert pic’s domestic weekend. Imax offshore markets were $1.8M.
Stray Kids sang No. 1 in Mexico ($2.1M) at 558 screens (incl. 24 IMAX and 27 4DX). The weekend performance was above Taylor Swift / The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. Stray Kids has now surpassed the lifetime of Break The Silence: The Movie, Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Moonage Daydream. Germany with $1.6M repped the best debut for a K Pop release ever at 331 screens (including 12 Imax hubs and four 4DX). In the UK & Ireland, the kids were also cool becoming the country’s highest-grossing K-Pop event release ever with $1.4M at 465 screens (incl. 50 IMAX and 35 4DX). IMAX accounted for 19% of the total and Cineworld’s 4DX screens took 7%. Italy took in $800K at 220 screens (including six Imax), surpassing the lifetimes of Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS Permission to Dance on Stage, Break the Silence: The Movie, and BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul. Stray Kids ranked No.3 in the market, behind two local titles, and achieved the highest location average of the top titles ($2.3k). Opening weekend also performed in line with Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour and BTS Yet to Come to the Cinema. Spain was $600K at 184 screens, ranking No. 6. Brazil was $600K at 506 screens (11 Imax), France $500K at 210 screens (8 Imax/3 4DX), Peru was No. 1 with $400K at 78 screens (1 Imax and 1 4DX). Chile was $400K and No. 1 at 132 screens (2 Imax and 9 4DX). Australia saw $400K across 130 screens, achieving the best location average in the market. Imax repped 32% in a massive over-indexing with the weekend result above BTS Yet to Come to the Cinema and the lifetimes of Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Break the Silence: The Movie. Argentina was also No. 1 for the K Pop kids with $300K at 120 (two Imax). Reports from theatres there indicate that fans are turning these screenings into parties, featuring singing and dancing, with many seeing the film more than once. Poland ranked No. 1 with $300K at 152 screens (eight Imax). Stray Kids there surpassed the lifetime of Taylor Swift / The Eras Tour.
Amanda Seyfried as Nina Winchester in The Housemaid. Photo Credit: Daniel McFadden/Lionsgate
The Housemaid remains No. 1 in Brazil in its sixth weekend, muy bien, with a 17% uptick from last weekend. UK is nearing $40M via Lionsgate, France has now crossed 4M admission ahead of F1 (cume there via Metropolitan is $35.8M). Germany was No. 1 again in weekend 4 via Leonine. Overall Latin America count $33.1M through distributor IDC which has a joint venture with Lionsgate.
Dylan O’Brien, Rachel McAdams in ‘Send Help
Disney/Everett Collection
Sam Raimi’s Send Help opened to No. 1 in the UK with $1.8M for the weekend $2.2M including previews, +114% ahead of Blink Twice, +68% ahead of Ready or Not and +66% ahead of The Menu. It also opened as the #2 non-local film in Croatia and the #3 film in Bosnia. Overall foreign weekend dips by -45%. Other updated territory cumes are Mexico ($2.3M), Australia ($1.6M), Germany ($900K), Japan ($800K), Italy ($800k), Saudia Arabia ($700K), Spain ($700k), Netherlands ($600K) and Korea ($500K).
James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash brought in $3.5M domestic, $12.2M (-40%) in its eighth weekend for an overall global frame of $15.7M and running cume of $1.439B WW ($391.5M domestic, $1.047B). Pic is the No. 11 MPA release of all-time at the international B.O passing Inside Out 2‘s $1.046B). It’s the No. 1 MPA release of 2025 internationally and globally behind Zootopia 2.
We’ll have more foreign B.O. updates for you later on.