‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Eyeing $50M+ In Early Offshore Reveal – International Box Office Preview
deadline.comWarner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore is releasing ahead of domestic in 22 international box office markets this weekend, beginning in Holland and Belgium today and including the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, Spain and China through Friday.
The latter, unfortunately, is not expected to serve up any magic given significant cinema closures. Currently, estimates for the early offshore release are in the mid-$50M range.
That’s down compared to the previous two films in the Wizarding World spinoff series. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald in like-for-like markets and at today’s rates opened to $120M and $115M, respectively.
Those films had gone out in a November corridor and played into Christmas, finaling at $580M and $495M internationally.Again, China is a big drag this time around; the market contributed about a third of the opening grosses on the earlier movies.
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