BIG HERO 6 | 435.3 M overseas | 657.8 M worldwide

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If only BOM was still receiving weekend numbers from more than a fraction of markets. I don't even know how BH6 did in Germany and France, let alone any of Latin America (even Mexico stops at November 16, when they stopped getting data for the majority of countries). So I assume in EU/LA it was only so-so?

It seems that the only markets they consistently receive data from now are Australia, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. (Russia and Ukraine stop in January.)

 

You can see my post #408

[TServo2049]

OK. I see it. Wow, that is interesting.

[Melvin Frohike]

Yes, it would be really amazing that China becomes top OS market for a Disney movie.

 

It would, and if anything it would make Disney and its shareholders (like me) feel a bit better about the huge, expensive theme park they're opening next year in Shanghai.  One movie is not much, but any small foothold in that seemingly impenetrable market would be welcome news.

 

 

Well, besides the superhero aspect or the story, one has to wonder whether the rest of the world outside of Asia were ready for an Asian-American protagonist.

 

True, but it still did well enough outside of Asia and NA to gross over $600M WW, and that's a big win, as far as I'm concerned, all things considered.  It's pretty much what I had expected, in terms of distribution, although admittedly I was hoping--if not expecting--the movie to do a bit better in NA, LA, and Europe in absolute terms than it has done.

[Olive]

It would, and if anything it would make Disney and its shareholders (like me) feel a bit better about the huge, expensive theme park they're opening next year in Shanghai.  One movie is not much, but any small foothold in that seemingly impenetrable market would be welcome news.

 

 

Marvel movies are already big success in China, and Star Wars will be quite big in China too.

Hope the Disney land will help Disney's future animated movies, I don't have faith in their original animated movies,Finding Dory and TS4 should be big here though. 

[Quigley]

BH6 could stay above $10M in China this wknd: it's share of showtimes is similar to last wknd.

[A District 3 Engineer]

BH6 did great in Asia - unfortunately, it was mediocre pretty much everywhere else.

It did really well in Venezuela! It's a great number for a country with just 30m inhabitants.

Edited March 12, 2015 by A District 3 Engineer

[Hernan Gonzalez]

BH6 could stay above $10M in China this wknd: it's share of showtimes is similar to last wknd.

  

It did really well in Venezuela! It's a great number for a country with just 30m inhabitants.

It did pretty good in Latin America. Better than Tangled and Wreck it Ralph

Its problem was Europe

[Melvin Frohike]

Marvel movies are already big success in China, and Star Wars will be quite big in China too.

I'm more concerned about the actual Disney-branded products (and also Pixar), since the new resort and theme park will be part of that.

 

Hope the Disney land will help Disney's future animated movies,

I sure wouldn't mind that happening, and it might, although I was hoping that the movies would have helped the brand get a stronger foothold before billions were committed to a theme park.  The latter flopping in China would hurt one hell of a lot more than just movies, and Disney has already had and is having problems with Hong Kong Disneyland as it is.  Granted, the latter is an example of gross underinvestment from the start while the new Shanghai Disneyland should be the polar opposite in this respect--designed from the outset to truly impress--but it's still a bit unnerving.  At least Big Hero 6 seems to be doing well in China, although I would attribute this primarily to its subject matter as opposed to the Disney brand.

[Melvin Frohike]

It did pretty good in Latin America. Better than Tangled and Wreck it Ralph

It did, although admittedly I expected it to do a bit better still.

 

Its problem was Europe

Agreed, it's really weak there--I expected weaker performance in Europe than other regions, but not quite this weak. By the way, I'm still boggled by how well sequels of some of the sillier animated features perform in Europe.  I guess like superhero movies in NA, there are broad regional cultural preferences (not to stereotype as they don't necessarily apply to every country in every case, especially in Asia it seems).

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Big Hero 6 passed Frozen in Chile to became number 14th movie at the All-Time Admissions Chart:

 

 

Chile: All Time Top 15 (Admissions):
1	Avatar	1660076
2	Ice Age 4	1464256
3	Titanic	1426749
4	Toy Story 3	1422389
5	Ice Age 3	1421722
6	The Avengers	1397320
7	Monters University	1253746
8	Shrek 2	1118133
9	Iron Man 3	1097539
10	HTTYD 2	1044233
11	Shrek 4	1021646
12	Trans4mers	1005284
13	Sexo Con Amor (*)	985093
14	Big Hero 6	957018
15	Frozen	954804

 

 

Big Hero 6 in Latin America compared to Frozen: 

 

 

Latin America (admissions):	Frozen	Big Hero 6
Mexico	7335981	5246291	72%
Chile	954804	957018	100%
Argentina	1943239	1515905	78%
Peru	880000	840000	95%
Colombia	1372284	1332032	97%
Uruguay	87609	42935	49%
Brazil	4223967	2702318	64%
Bolivia	100353	164328	164%
Paraguay	58949	44879	76%
Venezuela	1502000	1369380	91%
	18459186	14215086	77%

 

[Dingdong123]

Well BH6 was just really weak in Brazil, but its overall SA performance was great.

And I'm more than pleased with its Asian performance. Europe could've done more but atleast it didn't end up doing the Wreck it Flop route there.

[chasmmi]

 

Big Hero 6 passed Frozen in Chile to became number 14th movie at the All-Time Admissions Chart:

 

 

Chile: All Time Top 15 (Admissions):         1 Avatar 1660076 2 Ice Age 4 1464256 3 Titanic 1426749 4 Toy Story 3 1422389 5 Ice Age 3 1421722 6 The Avengers 1397320 7 Monters University 1253746 8 Shrek 2 1118133 9 Iron Man 3 1097539 10 HTTYD 2 1044233 11 Shrek 4 1021646 12 Trans4mers 1005284 13 Sexo Con Amor (*) 985093 14 Big Hero 6 957018 15 Frozen 954804

 

 

Big Hero 6 in Latin America compared to Frozen: 

 

 

Latin America (admissions): Frozen Big Hero 6   Mexico 7335981 5246291 72% Chile 954804 957018 100% Argentina 1943239 1515905 78% Peru 880000 840000 95% Colombia 1372284 1332032 97% Uruguay 87609 42935 49% Brazil 4223967 2702318 64% Bolivia 100353 164328 164% Paraguay 58949 44879 76% Venezuela 1502000 1369380 91%   18459186 14215086 77%

 

 

 

So what I can assume about Chileans from now on is that they are masssive fans of Animation and sex with love.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

So what I can assume about Chileans from now on is that they are masssive fans of Animation and sex with love.

And apparently they also like love with sex toys and whips because Grey is still dominating the chilean box office on its fifth week

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Many good news for Baymax and Hiro this weekend

http://deadline.com/2015/03/big-hero-6-no-1-animated-movie-worldwide-2014-1201392779/

[Olive]

THR：

Disney celebrated a second victory over the weekend as the Oscar-winning Big Hero 6 became the top-grossing animated release of 2014 ahead of How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($618.9 million) thanks to a late run in China and other key international markets. Through Sunday, Big Hero's global tally is $632.8 million, including $75.8 million in Japan and $66.5 million in China, where it has become the No. 1 non-seqeul animated film of all time after 16 days of release, and the No. 3 animated title of all time. 

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic: $221,686,000   35.0%+ Foreign: $411,100,000   65.0%= Worldwide: $632,786,000 

[picores]

650m WW locked.

[BadAtGender]

I wonder if it has another $40m in the tank so it can break into the top 10 WW for 2014.

[Olive]

I wonder if it has another $40m in the tank so it can break into the top 10 WW for 2014.

I think that's too much to ask, 20-25M more from China and 5M from others.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Big Hero 6 passed $650m WW

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic: $222,125,000   34.1%+ Foreign: $429,600,000   65.9%= Worldwide: $651,725,000