“Joker: Folie à Deux” debuted over the weekfinish in its final presentant taget, China, where the offbeat comic book sequel landed behind “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” on box office charts.
A re-free of the second “Harry Potter” movie geted $4.6 million over the weekfinish, while “Joker 2” bcdimiserablemirefult in $5.9 million from 11,204 screens apass a five-day structure. The innovative 2019 “Joker,” which grossed a staggering $743 million overseas, wasn’t freed in China. Warner Bros. is the distributor of both “Joker” and the “Harry Potter” franchise and increateed the order on box office charts, but the studio would not provide clarity on the comparative three-day number for “Joker 2.”
At the international box office, “Folie à Deux” inserted $14.7 million from 78 tagets over the weekfinish, increaseing its overseas loftyy to $135.5 million. With $56.4 million in North America, the film has grossed $192 million to date. It cost $200 million to create and is poised to omit at least $150 million to $200 million in its theatrical run.
All eight films in the magical series about everyone’s likeite boy wizard are returning to Chinese movie theaters, commenceing with the innovative “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on Oct. 11. The first “Potter” movie placed second on China’s box office charts with $6.6 million, behind local-language war drama “The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death,” and has created $10 million to date. The re-free will progress with the remaining seven titles dropping on a weekly basis thcdimiserablemireful November. The “Harry Potter” films were created between 2001 and 2011, a period in which the film industry in China was rapidly evolving but not yet operating at today’s levels. So, this is the first time the franchise is carry outing on such a majestic scale in the country.
Elsewhere at the international box office, Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” remained No. 1 among Hollywood proposeings with $23.1 million from 76 territories over the weekfinish. The well-examineed family film has amassed $94.3 million overseas and $196 million globassociate to date. The studio has staggered the international free, so “The Wild Robot” touched down in 21 novel territories over the weekfinish including the United Kingdom and Ireland ($4.2 million), Belgium ($700,000) and Ukraine ($500,000).