Refresh for up to date…: Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 has topped the half-century mark globally, now with $503.5M worldwide. Of that, $318.5M is from the international box office. Passing $500M makes KFP4, directed by Mike Mitchell (and co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine), solely the fourth animated title to the benchmark since 2020, becoming a member of Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.4B) and Minions: The Rise of Gru ($943M), and Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($691M).
Overseas, the return of Po & co is now the very best grossing movie within the franchise in 37 markets together with Mexico ($35.2M) and Brazil ($8.1M). The sequence of movies just lately topped the $2B mark globally to turn out to be the seventh highest grossing animated franchise of all time. DWA has probably the most animated franchises to the $2B milestone worldwide with Shrek ($3.972B), Madagascar ($2.257B), and now KFP ($2.3B).
News of KFP4’s achievement (extra on that to return beneath) arrives amid a wave of global milestones as Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire crossed $700M and $500M, respectively, this body.
In new play, Universal’s Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt-starrer The Fall Guy began early at abroad turnstiles with $8.7M from 38 markets. The David Leitch-directed action-romcom and ode to stuntmen, landed with No. 1s in Australia, Netherlands and a number of other others.
Warner Bros’ Zendaya-led drama, Challengers, expanded into 51 extra markets serving up $9M within the body for a working $10M worldwide cume after hitting the courtroom in Australia and New Zealand final weekend (the drop for these was simply 21%). With domestic’s No. 1 debut, the movie is at $25M international to date.
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