The action thriller "Ready to Fight," starring Keanu Reeves, opened around the world last week and grossed more than $92 million in its first week, landing as the world's weekend box office champion. The game adaptation of the movie "Detective Pikachu" collected another $78.6 million over the weekend, slightly surpassing "Reunion 4" and still ranking second in the weekend list. Marvel Studios' superhero blockbuster Avengers 4 grossed another $76.2 million over the weekend, slipping to third place on the charts. The pet movie "A Dog's Mission 2" earned $21.9 million in its first week, ranking fourth in the world on weekends. The female comedy "Thief of the Heart" collected more than $15 million a week around the world, still in the top five of the list.
Lionsgate's sequel to the action series, GearIng Up, opened in 67 markets around the world last week and grossed $92.23 million in its first week, beating two older films, "Avengers 4" and "Detective Pikachu," topped the global weekend box office charts. The new series, starring Keanu Reeves and Harry Berry, landed in 3,850 theaters in its first week and won the title with $57.03 million in opening weekend, an 87% improvement over its premiere. Among the works released this year, "Ready for War" began second only to films such as "Avengers 4", "Captain Marvel" and "Us", and performed slightly better than series such as "Thunder Shazam" and "Detective Pikachu". At the same time, the film also set the highest North American start for a Lionsgate film released since 2015's "Hunger Games: Mockingbirds (Part 2)".
"Fast and Ready" also far surpassed its predecessors in overseas markets, earning $35.2 million in its first week overseas, including box office titles in 53 overseas markets. As the film's number one overseas box office, the Uk contributed $4.6 million in the first week, a 62% jump from the second installment in the series, Rush. Russia also produced $3.8 million in its first week, and the opening was more than half of the previous painting. The film also performed extremely well in Latin America, Southeast Asia and other markets, with Mexico starting out with a 147% increase over the previous game, and markets such as Thailand and Taiwan also gaining more than 110%. "Rapid Pursuit" and "Rapid Preparation" with sharp action scenes and compact plot circles countless fans, "Rapid Preparation" can naturally eat the dividends of the previous work's high reputation. In its first week, the film beat the global final result of "Rush" ($88.76 million) at the box office, and its final global box office is expected to increase by at least $100 million compared with "Rush" ($172 million).
The game adaptation film "Detective Pikachu", jointly produced by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, remained released in 73 markets and attracted another $78.62 million at the weekend, and the box office counterattack "Reunion 4" still ranked second on the weekend. Starring "Deadpool" Ryan Reynolds, the north American film grossed more than $24.8 million the following weekend, down 53 percent from the opening weekend, and the trend was relatively stable for fans to heavier works. The film has grossed $94 million in North America in two weeks, and has risen to the fourth highest number of game movies in North American film history, and is currently second only to "Tomb Raider" (2001), "Angry Birds" and last year's "Raging Monster". With the blessing of good audience reputation, its final results in North America are still expected to equal the cost line of 150 million.
"Detective Pikachu" collected another $53.8 million over the weekend, a weekend drop of less than 50%, and the cumulative box office has reached $193.4 million. The film has easily won two consecutive titles in the mainland market, and the cumulative box office has exceeded US$70 million, far ahead of other overseas markets. In the Asia-Pacific market (excluding Chinese mainland), the film's cumulative box office has surpassed the game adaptation of Angry Birds. In the market for new paintings last week, Russia exploded $4.3 million in its first week, making a good start. So far, the film has accumulated $16.8 million in the Japanese market in half of its hometown, followed by the British market of $11.8 million. As of Sunday, "Pikachu" has grossed $287 million worldwide, and is expected to hit the triple cost line.
Disney's Marvel Universe masterpiece Avengers: Endgame remained in 56 markets last week and posted another $76.2 million over the weekend, falling third on the global weekend charts. The epic finale of Marvel Studios' "Infinite Legends" series closed another $29.4 million over the North American weekend, down more than halfway for three consecutive weeks, a slightly average trend, but its cumulative North American box office has reached $770 million, and it is currently second only to "Star Wars 7" ($933 million), and has been promoted to the runner-up in the history of North American film box office. The film closed another $46.8 million in overseas markets and fell 55% over weekends overseas, and its cumulative overseas box office has now risen to $1.844 billion, second only to Avatar, which eventually broke through $2 billion.
The cumulative box office of "Reunion 4" in the mainland market has reached 625 million US dollars, and it is about to successfully conclude its box office journey. The film has also successfully exceeded the $100 million mark in the Korean and British markets, and the number of markets that exceeded 100 million yuan has risen to four (China/US/UK/South Korea). The film remains at the top of the weekend box office in Latin America, with a total regional box office of $257 million and a total box office of $1.1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region. As of Sunday, "Avengers 4" has grossed $2.615 billion worldwide, a gap of about 170 million yuan from the overall champion of film history, Avatar ($2.788 billion). With the current growth momentum of "Reunion 4", it is urgent to quickly narrow the decline if it wants to hit the record of the highest in history.
In addition, "Avengers 4" has also grossed $207 million worldwide at the IMAX box office, becoming the third IMAX film in history to break $200 million after "Avatar" and "Star Wars Episode VII".
The globally released pet-themed film "A Dog's Mission 2" opened in 15 markets last week and grossed $21.9 million in its first week, ranking fourth at the weekend box office. The film only grossed $8 million in its first weekend in North America, a 56 percent drop from the $18.2 million in the first week of the previous film. The sequel film, invested by Alibaba Pictures, received just $11 million in its first week on the mainland, and the opening was more than 30 percent smaller than "A Dog's Mission" two years ago. "A Dog's Mission 2" attracted a large number of family audiences, accounting for more than 35% of the parent-child audience in the first weekend in North America, and its cinema audience CinemaScore also got as high as "A", and the audience reputation was not bad. Two years ago, the previous game cost $22 million to return to the global box office of $205 million, and the sequel is expected to break in half in its global performance.
Starring Anne Hathaway and Rebeuls Wilson, the comedy "Thief of Hearts" remained in 34 markets last week and grossed another $15.58 million over the weekend, setting a back fifth-highest box office at the weekend. The film fell more than half over the weekend in North America, and the trend is not good in its kind, with only $23.15 million in two weeks. Based on the remake of the 1988 comedy "Stealing Hearts and Minds", this female comedy has collected another $9.5 million overseas, and the cumulative overseas box office has reached $28.5 million. The film is stable in the British, German and other European markets, the decline is controlled at about 20%, Russia has accumulated 4.65 million US dollars in two weeks, temporarily listed in its overseas number one ticket warehouse. The film has now accumulated more than $51 million worldwide and will enter major markets such as Mexico, France and Brazil next month.
South Korea's crime-themed film "The Legend of the Wicked" opened on a single market last weekend and grossed $9.6 million in its first week, pushing "Avengers 4", which dominated the chart for three weeks, to the top spot. The film mobilized nearly 1.5 million viewers in its first week, making it the best local film in the past two months. Starring Ma Dong-seok of Busan, "The Legend of the Wicked" tells the story of the jealous and unscrupulous criminal police of the serious crime unit known as the "mad dog" and the leader of a criminal organization who is in danger of being poisoned by a serial killer.
The restrictive comedy "The Long Process," starring Seth Rogan and Charlize Theron, expanded to 18 markets last week and closed for another $5.2 million over the weekend, dropping seventh in the global weekend charts. The film, directed by "Warm Corpse" director Jonathan Levine, grossed only $35.2 million worldwide, a nearly $10 million gap from its $45 million cost line.
The other three hits all grossed less than $5 million at the weekend, with the Lebanese drama film "How to Be Home" in the top ten for the third consecutive week. With the help of the mainland market, its global cumulative box office has exceeded US$64 million. The Oscar-nominated foreign language film has grossed more than 330 million yuan (US$49.5 million) in the mainland, making it the highest-grossing small language film of the year.