SUNDAY UPDATE: Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has roared to a $194M global opening, of which $114M is from 63 international box office markets. The monster mash exceeded expectations, with over-performance in several offshore areas as well as domestic.
In like-for-like overseas markets at today’s exchange rates, the film is tracking 30% ahead of Godzilla, 25% higher than Dune: Part Two, 17% over Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, 16% above Meg 2: The Trench, 6% over Godzilla vs Kong and on par with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
The Godzilla brand is stronger than ever. Japs are churning out true Godzilla cinema while the Americans handle the mindless popcorn fare, and we have a quality show to boot in Monarch.
The movie was definitely good fun, saw it in IMAX, they got pretty weird with it but in a good way, it helped keep things fresh. Although it is way more of a Kong movie, Godzilla basically spends the entire movie drinking radiation offscreen.
