Naman Ramachandran The total U.K. and Ireland box office for May 2023 is £78.2 million ($97.7 million) which is 19% lower than May 2022, per numbers released by Comscore. Year-to-date 2023 is currently running 1% behind the same period in 2022. This is in contrast to most other territories where 2023 is significantly higher than last year, Comscore said. “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” opened at the beginning of May and achieved the highest three-day opening of the year with £9.2 million. It is the highest-grossing film in May with £33.6 million. It is currently the 16th-biggest title in the MCU all-time chart in the territory, tracking just behind “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which earned £34.4 million. “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” is also the second-biggest release of the year so far, behind Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (£52.9 million).
‘Fast X’ To Run Circles Around The World With Near $300M Opening – Box Office Preview
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While it might seem that Fast X has run out of gas in the states, it’s totally turbo boasted overseas as the tenth installment in the Universal franchise is eyeing a an offshore start of $235M to 60M+ domestic. That will get Fast X to $295M worldwide, making it the third highest global start for a Fast & Furious movie after Fate of the Furious ($541.9M) and Furious 7 ($397.6M).
And that’s nothing to be ashamed about despite any smacking of franchise fatigue. It’s a start that beats such movies such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($290M WW), Justice League ($278.8M), and Twilight Saga: New Moon ($274.9M). As always, Fast X is a part of multi-cultural appealing jewel crown for Universal and will overindex stateside with Latino, Hispanic and Black moviegoers.
Taking this $6 billion franchise higher this weekend is a launch in 81 offshore marketing including the highly coveted China, as well as South Korea, Mexico, France, UK & Ireland, Australia, Brazil and Italy.
The pattern is different than 2021’s F9 which bowed around the same time of year, but in a staggered pattern.
F9 did $235M in like-for-like markets and at today’s rates — including previews and including China; the latter, as ever, is the swing again this time.
China is a huge market for the franchise, but caution prevails. F9 was the first major studio title to release there in the middle of the pandemic and finaled at $128M (adjusted). While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has recently showed that Hollywood movies are not entirely being shunned, there has nevertheless been tepid response in the past several months. Presales on Fast X are currently below those of F9. It is leading previews and presales for the coming days, but this is a wait-and-see game.
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