Global Box Office

OBSESSION earned over $8M yesterday, surging more than 30% from last Friday. It’s the BIGGEST third-Friday increase for a non-Christmas wide release in over 50 years — since the rise of modern cinema with JAWS in 1975.

MICHAEL ($331M) officially surpassed OPPENHEIMER ($330M) yesterday. It’s now the 3rd highest-grossing biopic of all time domestically. How far can it go? 1️⃣The Passion of the Christ (2004) — $370.8M; 2️⃣American Sniper (2014) — $350.2M; 3️⃣Michael (2026) — $331.2M

BACKROOMS crossed the $50M mark at the global box office this Friday, including a superb $38.4M domestic debut. It’s now tracking to become the first @A24 film to ever surpass $100M+ on its opening weekend.

CRAZY walk-ups for BACKROOMS this Friday in the United States as it’s tracking to open to $30M+ TODAY! So it’ll beat, on its OPENING DAY, the entire opening weekend of @A24’s then biggest debuts ever: MARTY SUPREME ($27M) and CIVIL WAR ($25M).

OBSESSION is tracking to become the first non-Christmas wide release since Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) to post 2nd and 3rd weekend increases: 1st weekend — $17.2M 2nd weekend — $23.9M 3rd weekend — $25M-$30M (our projection) A historic box office run for Focus/Blumhouse.

BACKROOMS got huge walkups this Thursday domestically. Our projection now goes up to an $71M-$80M, the biggest domestic opening weekend for a horror film this decade!

CRASH BANDICOOT’s first theatrical film is moving into production. Source: @thevscooper

DISCLOSURE DAY by Steven Spielberg had an excellent first day of pre-sales. It’s now tracking to open to $42M-$52M domestic, potentially beating SINNERS to record the biggest opening of an original film this decade.

TOY STORY 5 is now tracking to score the biggest 3-day opening weekend of the year with $155M-$175M. This is also the highest-grossing domestic debut EVER for the franchise.

@Aji_ben72 Who’s not? 👀🔥

@GlobalBoxOffice Now obsessed with obsession

OBSESSION (+$5.6M) defeats THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU ($4.2M) and retakes the #1 spot at the domestic box office this Wednesday. The STAR WARS spinoff cost Disney $164.25M more than OBSESSION.

MICHAEL biggest markets at the global box office, it has already crossed $800M worldwide ($324M domestically): 1️⃣UK/Ireland — $60M 2️⃣France — $44.4M 3️⃣Germany — $29.6M 4️⃣Mexico — $29M 5️⃣Brazil — $28.4M 6️⃣Italy — $27.1M 7️⃣Australia — $26.7M 8️⃣Spain — $23.9M 9️⃣Colombia — $12.7M 🔟Netherlands — $11.9M

OBSESSION filmmaker Curry Barker was offered a $10M sight-unseen paycheck for the rights to his next movie. He made the entire OBSESSION film with only $750k. Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

@tenrepsauthor Mojo did not update its overseas numbers for Monday and Tuesday

@GlobalBoxOffice Not yet $800N, per box office mojo. Where’s your $800M plus number’s source?

MICHAEL crossed the $800M mark at the global box office this Tuesday. It’s tracking to become the highest-grossing biopic of all time, surpassing OPPENHEIMER.

OBSESSION goes crazy this Tuesday and increases over 50% from last week. It’s now tracking to outgross its $17.2M debut again on its third weekend. A phenomenon!