Despite
middling reviews,
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has the chance to become a blockbuster behemoth this summer. But, like its predecessor, a lot of
Fallen Kingdom's box office success will be determined by its performance overseas. So far, it's off to a pretty good start.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom rolled out in seven overseas markets on Wednesday and according to Deadline, racked up $20.2M (including previews). The JA Bayona-helmed film, which stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, was a tremendous success in Korea specifically, where it opened to a record-breaking $9.7M (10.3B won) and over 1M admissions.
Fallen Kingdom has now claimed the biggest opening day of all time in both admissions and box office in the market, topping Universal's own
The Mummy (7.4B won) and in terms of admissions
Avengers: Infinity War (980K).
In other markets,
Fallen Kingdom is No. 1 in France with 60% of the market share, opening with $1.7M. In Indonesia, it's actually 120% bigger than
Jurassic World's opening day with $1M. Not to get too granular, but the film also performed well in Germany, the Philippines, Belgium, Singapore, the UK, and Malaysia. Suffice to say, the dominant performance early on - specifically in South East Asia - is painting a promising picture for
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's global box office haul.
Of course, the sequel's domestic performance is also important; but, just for a little context,
Jurassic World ended its box office run as the 5th highest grossing movie of all-time with $1.67B worldwide. Over $1 billion of that was from the foreign box office. So if
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom can continue this hot start, there's a chance it could not only blow past the monstrous
$130-$150M opening weekend estimates but even
Jurassic World 's global total when its all said and done.