Mexico Box Office | Planet of the Apes is king with $6.4M OW; good holds for Garfield and Challengers

[Purple Minion]

$31.8M total for KFP4, crossed 500M lc; $23.7M for Kongzilla, $11.3M for Dune 2.

Top 3 movies of 2024 so far.

 

 

[Purple Minion]

More on KFP4, from Deadline:

 

Mexico added $2M this weekend for a cume through Sunday of $31.8M, performing well above previous titles in the franchise and now having topped the full runs of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Hotel Transylvania 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Inside Out.

 

No info on Arthur yet.

[Purple Minion]

ER is now 16.32. Will it go below 16? No major releases this weekend from what I see, so it will benefit the holdovers (not the movie!)

[Carlangonz]

APRIL 4-7 WEEKEND. 

 

1. Godzilla x Kong - $100.8M/$398.5M (-52.5%)

2. Kung Fu Panda 4 - $32.4M/$533M (-43.75%)

3. The First Omen - $26.6M 

4. Arthur The King - $21.9M

5. Ghostbusters - $14.2M/$121.7M (-51.03%)

6. Un Actor Malo - $5.4M 

7. Robot Dreams - $4.5M/$36.3M (-35.71%)

8. Dune: Part II - $3M/194.1M (-61.54%)

9. One Life - $1.9M/$33.5M (-59.57%)

10. The Chosen (Ep. 3 & 4) - $1.8M 

 

Step drops across the board with holidays just finishing. Godzilla and Kong are going just fine without obstacles to surpass $500M by next week but $600M definitely not looking on the table atm but next weeks are tough so could keep conquering audiences and stop in mid 500s range.

Po is doing well without any major direct competition and won't have any for the next 3 weeks until Garfield comes out on time for the May 1st holiday. $600M are on sight.

First Omen result is ok but definitely could've gone higher using Evil Dead Rise as a comp which even nabbed a C-Rating compared to softer B-15 for this one. Reception seems quite good so if it can hold up screens may leg as that one.

Arthur marks the fourth $1M+ USD grosser of the week which is great for theaters. We'll see if it can meet up $60M-$80M final gross but going for the lower end.

[Carlangonz]

5 hours ago, Purple Minion said:

ER is now 16.32. Will it go below 16? No major releases this weekend from what I see, so it will benefit the holdovers (not the movie!)

Truly a bummer we won't get a $100M+ opener this month and Garfield will probably will be the only one until Inside Out 2 on June.

Hopefully adult-profile titles like Challengers and Civil War (EA this weekend on IMAX) become sleeper hits. Also Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's goodwill translates well to The Fall Guy's numbers.

[Purple Minion]

CANACINE published figures with Monday (I guess) included. KFP4 is now at 535M lc and Kongzilla crossed 400M, just behind the original cross-over.

 

All Time Top Movies, lc

 

44    539,541,637    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

45    535,600,000    Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
46    527,349,619    Black Panther (2018)

 

79    410,605,740    Godzilla vs, Kong (2021)

80    407,300,000    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

81    404,176,780    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

 

 

 

 

 

[Purple Minion]

Estimates released late but here they are: Kongzilla $27.7M, KFP4 $33.1M, The First Omen $3.3M.

[Carlangonz]

APRIL 11-14 WEEKEND.

 

1. Godzilla x Kong - $46M/$464.1M (-54.37%)

2. SUGA D Tour' D-Day: The Movie - $26M 

3. The First Omen - $19M/$54M (-28.57%)

4. Kung Fu Panda 4 - $16.5M/$555.7M (-49.07%)

5. Arthur the King - $14.4M/$42.2M (-34.25%)

6. Ghostbusters - $6.7M/$131.3M (-52.82%)

7. Sleeping Dogs - $6.1M

8. Back to Black - $5.8M

9. Jack in the Box Rises - $5.4M

10. 10 Lives - $5.3M

Family titles are seeing the negative effect from holidays ending but nevertheless they're achieving all-time high for the franchises in the case of all three Godilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4 and Frozen Empire. They're aiming at $540M/$590M/$150M respectively.

The First Omen is taking advantage of a lack of major horror releases and holding extremely well. Crossing $100M will be a nail-bitter.

BTS' Suga takes over once again grossing a similar amount as his previous concert back in June 2023 and the highest Per-Screen Average of the year so far with a whopping $85K lc per screen with an ATP of $265 lc which is a bit less than the latest three BTS' big screen events and about 20% higher than Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour feature.

[Purple Minion]

Latest admission totals: KFP4 7.9M, Kongzilla 6.5M.

 

In all-time lc gross, the Panda is at #42 and the Monsters at #59.

[Carlangonz]

Cinépolis has started doing some 'Surprise Screenings' akin to those of AMC in the US and Cineworld in the UK. First of these was this past Tuesday on selected theaters across the country and the film they showed was The Fall Guy.

Speaking of Cinepolis, this very week they launched a membership program that is linked to its loyalty program Club Cinépolis and while it doesn't offer unlimited tickets, it has several tiers:

• Individual and double
• Regular for traditional screens-only and Premium that offers access from traditional to VIPs and PLFs to IMAX and 4DX screens.
• 4 and 6 tickets (individual or double according to your tier) on a monthly basis.
• Cancel any-time without aditional fees.

It's an interesting proposal but it's definitely a downgrade from the previous program that offered unlimited access for a yearly payment. We shall see how it works and if they make any update to it.

Edited April 18 by Carlangonz

[Purple Minion]

Estimate totals: KFP4 $34.0M, Kongzilla $30.2M, Dune 2 $11.6M.

[Carlangonz]

APRIL 18-21 WEEKEND. 

 

1. Godzilla and Kong - $27.9M/$504.5M (-39.35%)

2. Civil War - $17.5M/18.5M 

3. Abigail - $14.4M 

4. The First Omen - $13.4M/$74.9M (-29.47%)

5. Kung Fu Panda 4 - $11.8M/$572M (-28.48%)

6. Arthur the King - $10.4M/$57.1M (-27.78%)

7. Back to Black - $3.6M/$11.5M (-37.93%)

8. Ghostbusters - $3.5M/$136.6M (-47.76%)

9. 10 Lives - $3.1M/$9.8M (-41.51%)

10. Robot Dreams - $3M/$45.3M (-14.29%)

 

Great holds for all features. Ultimately the Spring is won by Kung Fu Panda 4, but Godzilla x Kong manages to cross $500M and looks like will reach $550M before it vanishes. Po will get annoyingly close to $600M like Spiderverse last year with $500M but Garfield will prevent it.

Civil War opens without any shock or dissapointment; we'll see how it legs towards $50M. Abigail is more of a let down considering the genre and its distributor which didn't manage to pick up buzz for it despite a well managed campaign.

First Omen still on track for $100M but relies heavily on keeping screens which will get tough with upcoming wide openers but fourtunately none of them are direct competition.

Robot Dreams has passed a 10x multi; marvelous feet!

[Purple Minion]

Kongzilla becomes the 53rd movie to cross 500M lc and lands at #50 all time. KFP4 up to #41, just behind Avatar.

 

Has any Alex Garland directed movie been released commercially? Couldn't find Ex Machina or Annihilation in the database.

[Carlangonz]

26 minutes ago, Purple Minion said:

Has any Alex Garland directed movie been released commercially? Couldn't find Ex Machina or Annihilation in the database.

Can't remember about Ex-Machina but Annihilation and Men went straight to Netflix and PVOD respectively.

[Carlangonz]

Garfield has been moved up another day as it now opens on May 1st to match with Labor Day holiday. Last time a movie opened this far out from its US release was Coco maybe.

Holdovers will suffer this weekend from screen loss as Spy x Family and Challengers aim a wide release. Plus Fall Guy is getting early access on Sat/Sun. Finally there are other five smaller scales releases and two Pixar wide re-issues: Incredibles and Toy Story 2.

And still the weekend may be won once again by Godzilla and Kong.

[Purple Minion]

CANACINE published today the official and updated All-Time Top 30 Movies in lc.  Which 2024 movie will join the list?

 

RANK	MOVIE	GROSS (lc)	AUDIENCE
1	Spider-Man: No Way Home	$1,618,296,317	23,418,424
2	Super Mario Bros: The Movie	$1,542,527,997	22,744,954
3	Avengers Endgame	$1,474,211,950	24,861,959
4	Toy Story 4	$1,375,619,677	25,200,946
5	Avengers Infinity War	$1,141,128,769	21,530,855
6	Coco	$1,134,401,701	24,191,290
7	Avatar: The Way of Water	$1,086,237,866	14,389,425
8	The Lion King (2019)	$   996,060,725	18,045,128
9	Barbie	$   915,724,518	12,978,567
10	Joker	$   858,100,868	15,080,265
11	Jurassic World Dominion	$   853,713,804	12,664,623
12	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	$   827,524,524	11,953,417
13	Avengers	$   827,207,828	15,944,900
14	Minions: Rise of Gru	$   818,648,034	13,186,207
15	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$   784,083,100	15,735,532
16	Furious 7	$   779,293,817	15,534,041
17	Toy Story 3	$   777,482,842	14,826,134
18	The Incredibles 2	$   749,605,717	15,249,092
19	Captain America: Civil War	$   728,249,354	14,524,899
20	Minions	$   724,799,241	16,145,794
21	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	$   699,603,804	10,377,937
22	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	$   692,702,046	13,769,041
23	Jurassic World	$   685,843,392	13,848,790
24	The Fate of the Furious	$   676,815,295	14,210,175
25	Fast X	$   667,620,984	9,764,084
26	Captain Marvel	$   642,094,748	11,514,520
27	Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3	$   641,581,397	9,353,685
28	The Batman (2022)	$   635,235,070	8,934,801
29	Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice	$   630,814,940	13,261,158
30	Aladdin	$   628,498,033	11,695,593

 

https://canacine.org.mx/informacion-de-la-industria/estadisticas/

Edited April 24 by Purple Minion

[Flip]

18 minutes ago, Purple Minion said:

CANACINE published today the official and updated All-Time Top 30 Movies in lc.  Which 2024 movie will join the list?

 

RANK	MOVIE	GROSS (lc)	AUDIENCE
1	Spider-Man: No Way Home	$1,618,296,317	23,418,424
2	Super Mario Bros: The Movie	$1,542,527,997	22,744,954
3	Avengers Endgame	$1,474,211,950	24,861,959
4	Toy Story 4	$1,375,619,677	25,200,946
5	Avengers Infinity War	$1,141,128,769	21,530,855
6	Coco	$1,134,401,701	24,191,290
7	Avatar: The Way of Water	$1,086,237,866	14,389,425
8	The Lion King (2019)	$   996,060,725	18,045,128
9	Barbie	$   915,724,518	12,978,567
10	Joker	$   858,100,868	15,080,265
11	Jurassic World Dominion	$   853,713,804	12,664,623
12	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	$   827,524,524	11,953,417
13	Avengers	$   827,207,828	15,944,900
14	Minions: Rise of Gru	$   818,648,034	13,186,207
15	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$   784,083,100	15,735,532
16	Furious 7	$   779,293,817	15,534,041
17	Toy Story 3	$   777,482,842	14,826,134
18	The Incredibles 2	$   749,605,717	15,249,092
19	Captain America: Civil War	$   728,249,354	14,524,899
20	Minions	$   724,799,241	16,145,794
21	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	$   699,603,804	10,377,937
22	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	$   692,702,046	13,769,041
23	Jurassic World	$   685,843,392	13,848,790
24	The Fate of the Furious	$   676,815,295	14,210,175
25	Fast X	$   667,620,984	9,764,084
26	Captain Marvel	$   642,094,748	11,514,520
27	Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3	$   641,581,397	9,353,685
28	The Batman (2022)	$   635,235,070	8,934,801
29	Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice	$   630,814,940	13,261,158
30	Aladdin	$   628,498,033	11,695,593

 

https://canacine.org.mx/informacion-de-la-industria/estadisticas/

Despicable Me 4 almost certainly (95%), Inside Out 2 and Joker 2 70% chance, and then Deadpool 3, Venom 3, and Mufasa have more or less a 10% chance.

[MG10]

I wasn't sure where to post it so I'll put it here

 

Highest grossing movies ever in North America (including Mexico and Central America):

 

1) Star Wars The Force Awakens - 963M

2) Avengers Endgame - 952M

3) Spider Man No Way Home - 908M

4) Avatar - 832M

5) Infinity War 751M (+3)

6) Avatar 2 - 751M (+1)

7) Top Gun Maverick - 733M (-2)

8)Black Panther - 728M (-2)

9) Titanic - 701M

10) Jurassic World - 695M

11) Barbie - 690M

12) The Avengers - 685M

13) Super Mario Bros - 678M (+2)

14) Incredibles 2 - 645M

15) Star Wars The Last Jedi - 633M (-2)

Edited April 27 by MG10

[Purple Minion]

Sum totals: KFP4 $35.2M, Kongzilla $32.1M.

[Carlangonz]

APRIL 25-28 WEEKEND. 

 

1. Godzilla x Kong - $18.7M/$536.6M (-32.97%)

2. Spy x Family Code: White - $15M 

3. Kung Fu Panda 4 - $12.5M/$591.3M (+5.93%)

4. Challengers - $11.8M 

5. Civil War - $10.1M/$37.4M (-42.29%)

6. The First Omen - $7.7M/$89.5M (-42.54%)

7. Arthur The King - $6.4M/$68.5M (-38.46%)

8. Abigail - $6M/$29.5M (-58.33%)

9. Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism - $4.8M

10. Correr para Vivir - $3.8M

 

Consistent but overall weak frame before this upcoming 6-Day (!) weekend with April 30th and May 1st holidays. Godzilla & Kong and Kung Fu Panda 4 remain the highest grossers of the year with great late legs. Latter will face Garfield from Tuesday so $600M will be its final goal.

 

Spy x Family delivers a strong opening surpassing that of Suzume last year. It may be more front-loaded but nevertheless one of the biggest openings ever for an anime release besides the Dragon Ball and Demon Slayer sagas.

Adult-oriented holdover Civil War has stayed on the conversation and has held quite good. First Omen has been able to replicate last year's Evil Dead Rise wonderful legs. Sadly, not the case for Abigail that will fade rather quickly and Challengers that got a dissapointing opening.