{"id":846623,"date":"2026-09-13T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:15","slug":"box-office-practical-magic-2-opens-to-46m-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846623\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Practical Magic 2’ Opens to $46M Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWarner Bros<\/a>\/Alcon\u2019s Practical Magic 2<\/a> wound up flying to a $46M global debut, with $16M overseas and $30M domestic. Note the sequel to this Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman 1990s property is stateside driven, so expect a bulk of the gross to come from there. However, the $16M start is under the $18M-$23M that the studio was hoping for in 77 territories. <\/p>\n

\n\tOffshore comps here are to such Bullock titles as Lost City and pre-Covid Ocean\u2019s 8 (the box office truth is that she racks up more ticket sales than Kidman when it comes to solo outings. Note Bullock has more studio features versus Kidman\u2019s indie\/arthouse film launches) and sequels to beloved female 1990s properties, i.e. Freakier Friday. Freakier Friday opened to $44.5M global ($15.5M abroad, $28.5M domestic) and Ocean\u2019s 8 bowed to $53.7M global pre-Covid, hence this opening for Practical Magic 2 is par for the course. Unfortunately, it\u2019s not the post Labor Day fireworks we\u2019re use to from Warner Bros with the It franchise, last year\u2019s Conjuring: Last Rites and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from two years ago. <\/p>\n

\n\tTracking stateside was bullish, believing Practical Magic 2 would approach $38M, maybe even $40M, however, what is clear, even though this opening is right where Bullock\u2019s Lost City was, is that this is a cult 1990s female property. It was never meant to be massive ala Devil Wears Prada 2. <\/p>\n

\n\tNo like-for-like comps are provided here, so we\u2019ll juxtapose everything against historical numbers, unadjusted for inflation and currency swings:<\/p>\n

\n\tPic\u2019s top opening was in the UK with $3.9M which is in line with Lost City\u2018s start there of $3.5M (pic ended its run at $13.5M) and ahead of Freakier Friday\u2018s $2.3M (pic finaled at $12.1M). <\/p>\n

\n\tAustralia brought in $2.2M, which is ahead of Freakier Friday\u2018s $1.3M start. Overall, the sequel\u2019s best strength was in English speaking markets. <\/p>\n

\n\tMexico\u2019s $1.2M start is under Lost City\u2018s $2M and Freakier Friday\u2018s $2.7M. Germany\u2019s $770K is under Lost City\u2018s $1.4M but ahead of Freakier Friday\u2018s $549K. Spain was $651K (similar to Lost City), France $569K (under Lost City\u2018s $2.5M), Brazil $528K, Italy $487K (similar to Lost City), Poland $315K, UAE $270K, Holland $253K and New Zealand was $237K. <\/p>\n

\n\tLost City ended its run at $105.3M domestic and $87.5M international ($192.9M WW(). Its first weekend abroad was staggered. Production cost was similar to Practical Magic here at around $75M net.<\/p>\n

\n\tFreakier Friday finaled at $94.1M in North America, $59M international and $153.1M worldwide off a net cost of $45M. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal Pictures;<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s The Odyssey filed a ninth weekend at the global B.O. of $34.4M from 85 territories with a running cume of $1.68 billion. The pic beats Spider-Man: Brand New Day worldwide for the second weekend in a row worldwide ($27.4M WW, $19M overseas and $8.4M domestic). We told you yesterday that the Christopher Nolan movie became the highest grossing Universal theatrical release ever, overtaking Jurassic World. Of that global take, $27M came from offshore which included the pic\u2019s official opening weekend in Japan which was $4.1M at 360 screens including a week of Imax previews (all in Japan weekend and previews for Imax stand at $2.5M). The standard 3-day opening is well above\u00a0Oppenheimer\u00a0and more than double\u00a0Dune: Part Two. Stateside weekend was $7.4M in third place, -43% for a $600M running cume armed still by Imax screens. <\/p>\n

\n\tKorea\u00a0added $5.2M for a running $87.6M total as the clear No.1 title in the market.\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0is estimated to have surpassed the lifetime of\u00a0Avengers: Endgame\u00a0this weekend to become the market\u2019s third\u00a0biggest Hollywood film of all time, as well as\u00a0Universal\u2019s biggest film ever. China\u2019s fifth frame is $3.7M for a $104.3M cume. The pic is still Nolan\u2019s second biggest, though performing in-line with\u00a0Interstellar\u00a0at the same point.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn\u00a0Germany,\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0saw a great hold boosted by discounted tickets during the Kinofest. Ninth weekend is $1.6M for a $61.8M cume. France\u2019s ninth weekend was $1.3M for a $88.8M cume, making it the fourth biggest MPA title of all-time there and Uni\u2019s biggest ever in the country. <\/p>\n

\n\tNolan\u2019s homeland of UK rang up $1.2M weekend for a $113.7M running total. The movie stands among UK and Ireland\u2019s top 10 movies ever. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs Imax\u2019s highest grossing movie ever, The Odyssey counts $506M around the world for the large format exhibitor. Ninth frame was $14.6M WW ($4.5M from domestic repping 61% of its weekend for a running U.S.\/Canada total of $215.2M). International weekend was $10.2M for a running total of $290.9M. Breaking out the Imax 70MM grosses, they did $3.2M this weekend for a running cume of $78.8M. At this great pace, Odyssey could continue to hang onto Imax screens into the dead zone of October if it wanted. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpider-Man: Brand New Day will beat Force Awakens around Tuesday as the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office. Right now, by end of today, its North American cume stands at $935.1M, overseas at $1.51B, and global at $2.452B, still third behind Avatar ($2.92B) and Avengers: Endgame ($2.79B). Top five territories cume wise are China\u00a0at\u00a0$233.0M, the\u00a0UK\u00a0at\u00a0$132.0M,\u00a0Mexico\u00a0at\u00a0$90.7M,\u00a0France\u00a0at\u00a0$86.5M,\u00a0and Brazil\u00a0at\u00a0$76.7M.<\/p>\n

\n\tInsidious: Out the Further from Sony\/Stage 6\/Blumhouse Atomic Monster minted $10.2M fourth global weekend ($6.8M from offshore in 66 markets, $3.35M domestic). Global running total is $155.2M, $94.7M of that coming from international. Worldwide is ahead of Insidious ($100.1M) and Insidious Chapter 3 ($112.9M). Highest grossing pic in franchise remains the last one, Insidious: Red Door with $189M WW. <\/p>\n

\n\tDisney\u2019s concert doc Oasis: Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger took in $8.2M WW ($1.4M domestic, $6.8M foreign). Imax repped 71% of the pic\u2019s domestic weekend. The documentary opened as the No. 2 pic in the band\u2019s home country of the UK with $3.6M, by far the top foreign territory.\u00a0The top 5 theatres for Saturday were Vue Manchester Printworks, BFI IMAX, Showcase Glasgow East, Cineworld Glasgow Silverburn and Cineworld Ashton-Under-Lyne. Imax drove 14% of the gross as the end of Saturday in UK. Elsewhere, the doc opened within the top 5 as follows: No. 1 MPA in Thailand ($200K), No. 3 MPA in Japan ($400K), No. 4 MPA Korea ($100K), Indonesia and New Zealand and #5 (MPA) in Italy ($600K), Australia ($300K), Sweden, Chile and Uruguay. Mexico and Germany did $200K apiece. France and Netherlands did a $100K apiece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros\/Alcon\u2019s Practical Magic 2 wound up flying to a $46M global debut, with $16M overseas and $30M…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,5459,5251],"class_list":["post-846623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-practical-magic-2","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}