Godzilla and King Kong fight in Warner Bros. “Godzilla vs. Kong.”
Source: Warner Bros.
The domestic box office is back.
Warner Bros. and Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” had the best pandemic record over the weekend, earning $ 32.2 million on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The film, which was released locally on Wednesday, earned $ 48.5 million in the US and Canada.
Internationally, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has added an additional $ 71.6 million to its box office. Since opening in foreign markets last week, the film has grossed $ 285.4 million.
“The results for ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ are absolutely staggering and are a kind of ‘welcome back’ for an industry that has been working from the edge for over a year,” said senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian at Comscore.
‘Godzilla vs. Kong ‘opened in more than 3,000 theaters in North America over the weekend, the most of any movie during the pandemic. In addition to the biggest opening weekend since the coronavirus pandemic, the film also had the biggest opening day on Wednesday with $ 9.6 million and the biggest single day with $ 12.5 million.
“For anyone who may have doubts about the pent-up demand for film screenings, this performance is another sign of how resilient the theater industry can be,” said Boxingice.com chief analyst Shawn Robbins.
Over the weekend, only 55% of theaters in North America were open, compared to the total open in 2019, according to data from Comscore. The majority of these cinemas operate with about 50% capacity.
“It should once again send a message to studios that the world’s audience is hungry for big movie releases,” Robbins said. “If ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ can break out to these numbers in a still-constrained domestic market with a simultaneous release of the streaming, imagine what other opportunists could achieve in the coming months if they had a reasonable window of theatricality. exclusivity gets day one. “
“A sleeping giant is really starting to wake up,” he said.