Global Weekend Box Office To Be Dominated By Chinese New Year Pics Led By ‘Pegasus 3’ With $400M

The biggest movies at this weekend’s worldwide box office won’t be from Hollywood — sorry, Wuthering Heights — but rather China, where the Year of the Fire Horse has been in full swing since Tuesday.

Overall, we’re hearing from distribution sources that Gower sees the Top 5 movies alone doing a combined total of $805M for the six-day stretch of Tuesday through Sunday. Realize that Hollywood’s highest week ever at the domestic B.O. was $536.4M, when Avengers: Endgame led the April 26-May 2, 2019, frame. We could never reach such scale.

According to Maoyan, total box office since opening across all titles screening during the Chinese New Year window has reached Rmb 3.1 billion ($452.6M) to date. This figure also includes carryovers. Note that Hollywood films aren’t allowed to open in China during the Chinese New Year stretch, but they can hold onto screens, read Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash.