‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Looks To Spell Near $160M WW Total By Easter; ‘Father Stu’ Sees $1.6M Opening Day Box Office
deadline.comWarner Bros. which has traditionally ruled the Easter weekend box office is back, now a year later after Godzilla vs. Kong brought bread to reopening cinemas during the pandemic, with J.K.
Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The pic’s stateside opening, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros.
Discovery merger went public.The Harry Potter franchise spinoff has always demonstrated its potency more so abroad than stateside, so look for the magic there.
David Yates, who has directed all the Fantastic Beasts movies, and Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 1 & 2, is natch behind this threequel which after a $56.9M start in 22 offshore markets this weekend is eyeing, thanks to Easter vacations, a near $77M overseas cume by EOD today.
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