UPDATE, SATURDAY 10 AM PT:
Noah on Friday added another $6.2M to its international tally for a cume of $28.3M since originally opening on March 20 in
Korea and
Mexico. The film is now in 21 markets and playing at 3,600 locations. After bowing in
Russia and
Australia on Thursday, a further 17 territories opened Friday including several Eastern European markets, along with India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Combined, this week's additional openings were
worth $5.1M on Friday, which Paramount says is 45% above Gravity's debut in the same markets. Among the standouts on Friday, Russia added $2.9M for a 6% bump over Thursday's opening. The cume there is now $5.7M which is equal to Noah 's full first-weekend take in Mexico last week. Box office was also up Down Under with an additional $923K on Friday from 262 sites. That was worth 25% more than the Thursday open of $750K. The two-day haul in Oz is $1.7M.
Noah is looking at a potential $45M in the U.S., but overseas is tough to calculate at this point with figures not yet available for many of the debut markets. More will be known tomorrow when we'll also have numbers for this week's other big international opener, Disney/Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The sequel booted up in 30 overseas markets including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Korea and Mexico. It opens in the U.S. on April 4. The
French first-day bow on Wednesday was the 5th best of the year behind three local films, and 300: Rise Of An Empire, with 110,798 tickets sold at 664 locations. Winter Soldier is also leading the
German box office this weekend, according to local reports. The other notable opener in six markets is The Raid 2 which hit Russia, Australia and Indonesia, among others. Expect it to do well in the latter - the film is set there, and is where helmer Gareth Evans makes his home.
PREVIOUS, FRIDAY PM: After earning a combined $14M in its Korean and Mexican openings last weekend, moored in
Russia and
Australia on Thursday with strong results. On its opening day in Russia, Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic grossed an estimated $2.75M. Paramount, which did not provide screen counts, says the open was the 4th biggest non-holiday debut of all time in the territory. Noah's opening day was also 2.5 times higher than Gravity, which has been the studio's preferred comp since last week's first bows. In Australia, where star Russell Crowe is a hometown guy, the movie had over 55% of the first-day marketplace with a start of $750K. Again comparing to Gravity, Noah was 20% higher in its Oz debut.
Meanwhile, the movie has held water in
Korea and
Mexico with $10.2M in the former and $8M in the latter through Thursday. All told, the international cume is now $22M. The Korean, Mexican and Australian releases are in 2D; in Russia the film is playing in 3D. It started previews last night in the U.S. (see Anita Busch's box office report for more) and kicks off in another 19 markets globally this weekend. I'll be back with updated numbers as they wash in.
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