GODZILLA VS. KONG Weekend 3 Box Office Report

Source: Comscore

Official Movie Site: GodzillavsKong.com

Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian

Comscore has announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of April 18, 2021, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore's suite of products.

Comscore – Sunday Estimates – Global Weekend Box Office Roundup – April 11, 2021

A re-cap of this weekend’s notable performers as reported by their respective distributors

■ Global Highlights:

Warner Bros.’ GODZILLA VS. KONG has crossed the $300M international and $80M in North America. This weekend the film grossed $19.9M globally from 42 markets in release (including the U.S. and Canada), $12.2M internationally (for an international cume to date of $309.7M) and $7.705M in North America (for a N. Am. cume to date of $80.515M) for a whopping worldwide cume to date of $390.215M.

Now in its second weekend, Warner Bros.’ MORTAL KOMBAT took in an estimated $5.7M from 6,128 screens in 28 international markets in release, bringing the running overseas cume to $19.2M.

■ IMAX Highlights (courtesy of IMAX):

DETECTIVE CONAN continues the IMAX hot streak in Japan, while GODZILLA VS. KONG reaches $35m global IMAX box office.

Toho’s DETECTIVE CONAN: THE SCARLET BULLET, the 23^rd installment in the franchise, opens to $1.2m from 38 IMAX screens in Japan, an incredible $32K per screen and the 3rd highest IMAX opening weekend since the pandemic began, behind DEMON SLAYER and SHIN EVANGELION. DETECTIVE CONAN achieves the 4^th highest IMAX opening ever for a local title, only 5% behind 2019’s WEATHERING WITH YOU. The first Detective Conan movie with an IMAX release, Japanese audiences flocked to IMAX screens in droves, with the IMAX weekend box office expected to be ~7% of the nationwide total when Toho reports official numbers on Monday. After posting the 3^rd highest IMAX opening day for a local title in Japan, CONAN went on to become not only the 4^th highest IMAX local language opening weekend, but also the 8^th highest IMAX opening ever in the market, surpassing 2016’s ROGUE ONE and 2015’s THE FORCE AWAKENS.

Warner Bros./Legendary’s GODZILLA VS. KONG climbs to $35m IMAX global box office, earning $1.4m over the weekend. IMAX China box office reaches $22m, with $700K earned from Friday, while the Domestic IMAX cume adds $523K, growing to $6.6m, second only to TENET in Domestic IMAX box office since January 2020. Brazil, Japan, and select EMEA markets remain to open GvsK in May.

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