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Watching Black Widow on Disney+ Premier Access is also an option in numerous international markets where the streamer is available. (In North America, a swath of cinemas in Canada, including Toronto, are still shuttered.) Black Widow does not yet have a release date in China, where the box office has rebounded in a major way. The recovery is even more complicated overseas, where Black Widow opened this week and weekend in most major markets, excluding areas still impacted by COVID-19 closures, including Taiwan, India, parts of Australia and some countries in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Fanboys are huge Imax customers the large-format company turned in $12 million for Black Widow globally. Males made up 58 percent of box office ticket buyers in North America. Moviegoers who are 35 and older are far less likely to return to the multiplex, while some parents are reluctant to take unvaccinated kids (usually, Marvel films gets help on Saturday from family business, but this time around, Saturday was down more than 40 percent). But the box office is still in recovery mode, and far from operating at normal levels in some parts of North America, not to mention the movie’s hybrid release strategy.

Some analysts hoped Black Widow would come closer to $100 million in its domestic debut. The major difference between the two: A Quiet Place Part II and F9 received an exclusive theatrical release, while Black Widow opted to open day-and-date on Disney+ Premier Access. Until now, Universal’s F9 domestic start of $70 million (including $7.1 million in Thursday sneaks) held the crown for top pandemic-era opening ( F9‘s global gross is approaching $550 million, including $141.3 million domestically.) Both F9 and Black Widow are among numerous 2020 tentpoles that were delayed because of the COVID-19 crisis. In a second milestone of the weekend, Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II crossed $150 million domestically in its seventh outing.

(Disney, for instance, has yet to say what the Disney+ Premier Access numbers were for Cruella or Raya and the Last Dragon.)Ĭhina Box Office: 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' Opens to So-So $17.2M

It’s unprecedented for a studio to announce a premium VOD or streaming viewership number on a film’s opening weekend, and Disney’s decision to do so prompted a flurry of conversations across Hollywood on Sunday as to whether this will lead to more transparency. Overseas, the film earned $78.8 million from 46 territories for a worldwide theatrical debut of $158.8 million.Īdditionally, Black Widow made at least $60 million from Disney+ Premier Access - a household has to pay $30 to watch the film - for a global start of $218.8 million, according to Disney.

The female-led superhero pic snared the biggest North American start since the COVID-19 crisis commenced, and the largest since Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019. Proving the might of the Marvel brand, Black Widow set a new benchmark for the pandemic era in opening to $80 million at the domestic box office.