International Insider: Box Office Bounce; Disney Asia Interview; ‘Suits’ Effect At Netflix UK
deadline.comHappy Friday, Insiders. Jesse Whittock back in a week where the box office proved beyond all doubt that it is alive and kicking.
All the big film and TV news from the international sphere follows. Sign up for the newsletter here. Bouncy Box Office ‘Moana’ to ‘Glicked’: It’s been a robust few weeks at the international box office largely thanks to the customary end-of-year studio fare, which has pulled audiences out of the winter cold and back into those uncomfortable multiplex seats.
Defying gravity, Universal’s Wicked debuted at $164.2M, the biggest opening weekend for a Broadway adaption. The split on the Jon M.
Chu-directed flick was $114M domestic and $50.2M from the international box office. The bumper number also places Wicked as the highest-grossing opening Friday flick in Imax for a PG film.
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