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Top Movies 2023 lc CANACINE numbers 05 497,030,288 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 06 464,100,000 Wonka 07 395,900,097 Five Nights at Freddy's 08 390,300,000 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 09 386,284,642 The Nun 2

Deadline: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (WB): $2.1M intl weekend (75 markets); $307.4M intl cume/$429.7M global.

Deadline: The Beekeeper (MIR): $3.5M intl weekend (63 markets); $79.2M intl cume/$133.8M global.

Totals based on wknd estimates: Anyone But You $6.8M, first movie in 2024 to cross 100M lc; Argylle, a meh $2.6M; Wonka, a fab $27M; Migration reached $8 8M and Poor Things had a great 30% drop for a $4.2M cume.

It has gone up in lc and (due to great ER in the last 12 months) also in USD. Here's the info from CANACINE's 2022 report, legend says "Average Ticket Price (in Mexican pesos)".

Mexico Box Office 2023 CANACINE published 2023's Annual Results. Highlights: 4th biggest market worldwide in audience. 233M tickets sold, 28% higher than 2022, however 33% less than 2019. 9th biggest box worldwide office market (up one place from 2022). 15.59 billion pesos ($920M), a 29% increase on 2022 but still 18% behind 2019. 4th place worldwide in number of screens (7,241) 10th cheapest tickets worldwide, ATP = 66.89 lc ($3.95) Bonus: 6th largest Netflix market in the world, 24% of subscribers in Latin America Top 3 movies were Super Mario, Barbie and Fast X. Top 3 distributors were Universal (26% of market share), WB (20%) and Disney (17%). https://canacine.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Resultados-de-industria-2023.pdf

CANACINE's weekly figures probably include Feb 5 (Bank Holiday), Anyone But You is now at 99.7M lc and 1.3M tickets. Local movie El Roomie also reached 1M audience with a 67.7M lc gross. Poor Things and Wonka's totals are incorrect, let's see if they fix them.

Deadline: The Beekeeper buzzed up another $6.2M this weekend, from 61 overseas markets. This puts $73.1M in the honeycomb internationally, for $122M global. In like-for-likes, it's running 24% ahead of Wrath of Man, 32% above Plane and 31% over the first John Wick. Holds continued to be muscular in some markets including Germany (-25%) and Saudi Arabia (-22%). Still on deck are Scandinavia this month, Korea in March and Japan in late 2024.

Deadline: Poor Things is anything but with an $8.5M weekend in 37 markets. The international cume is now $40.1M for $68.3M worldwide. The multiple Oscar nominee dropped by just 23% in holdovers with mega-strength in such markets as Sweden (+5%), Italy (-9%), Austria (-9%), Spain (-13%), Germany (-15%), Mexico (-26%) and France (-28%). Notably, in Brazil, Poor Things opened at an estimated $500K, 125% ahead of The Favourite and 2nd highest debut for a Searchlight Pictures film behind The Shape of Water. Here’s the Top 5 to date: UK ($7.5M), Italy ($5.1M), Germany ($3M), Greece ($3M) and Mexico ($2.9M).

Deadline: Illumination/Universal’s Migration finally flew into the UK and did so with a great $4.5M at No. 1 and across 1,500 screens including 35 4DX screens. The start is double Encanto, and above Moana, Wish and Elemental and in-line with Despicable Me. Saturday grossed $2.2M, representing the biggest Saturday number for an animated title since Uni and Illumination’s Super Mario Bros last April.

Deadline: Standing out with yet another exceptional hold is Sony’s Anyone But You which dipped by just 7% overseas this frame, with strong midweeks propelling momentum into the weekend. The session was good for a terrific $13.5M from 49 markets, bringing the offshore total to $75.5M and global to $151.8M. In Western Europe, it was No. 1 again in Germany (now three weeks running), and Italy jumped by 51% in the sophomore frame at No. 1. France and Spain also saw 30% and 23% increases, respectively. In Latin America, the film claimed the No. 1 spot in 10 out of 11 markets. Mexico repeated at No. 1 and Brazil jumped 65% to take the top spot. Wow! Here are the Top 5 to date: Australia ($13.1M), UK ($11.8M), Germany ($8.4M), Mexico ($5.3M), Italy ($4.1M).

Deadline is now reporting that Anyone But You repeated at #1, for a fantastic $5.3M total! Other cumes: Wonka $26.4M, Poor Things $2.9M.

Argylle #1 with $1.3M.

Deadline: The Beekeeper added $10.9M from 58 overseas markets in the session, taking the international cume to $61.9M and with global reaching $103.9M. In like-for-likes (excluding China and Russia), it is running 24% ahead of Wrath of Man, 32% above Plane and 30% over the first John Wick. The IMAX total is $8M worldwide.

Deadline: Mean Girls (PAR): $4.3M intl weekend (22 markets); $22.6M intl cume/$83.4M global.

Poor Things $1.6M OW including previews, 2nd biggest for Searchlight just behind The Shape of Water. Anyone But You up 18%, $3.6M total. Wonka reached $26M, Aquaman 2 $21.8M and Migration $8.3M.

Not a bad decrease from last weekend.