Box Office Global: ‘Backrooms’ $118M, ‘Obsession’ $148M, ‘Michael’ Near $900M

REFRESH FOR UPDATES…Backrooms wasn’t just a stateside sensation, rather the top A24 opening in over 30 countries across Latin America, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, South Korea, Middle East, Scandinavia, Taiwan, Israel, and Turkey.

As we told you global came in at $118M for the Kane Parsons movie, of which $36M came from abroad. In regards to that foreign take, it outstripped the first weekend of the previous big horror pic opening this year, Paramount’s Scream 7 which was $33.1M. The global start here is also ahead of Scream 7‘s franchise record start of $97.1M WW– which was 2026’s previous big opening for a horror movie.

Versus other comps, Backrooms outgrossed Weapons (+62%), Scream 7 (+22%), Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (+5%), and Final Destination: Bloodlines (+4%), all of which opened across wider international footprints in their first frames.

LatAM led all territories with $12.7M, the No. 1 pic in the region overall, more than 3x the previous biggest A24 title opening. Latin America on Scream 7 was $7.7M in its first frame.

In the UK, the film also ranked #1 overall with $5.6M. Not only is this the highest grossing opening weekend for an A24 title in the territory, but also the best horror opening of the year so far besting Scream 7‘s $5.3M.

Backrooms also led Australia/New Zealand with $4.4M, making it the second highest grossing horror title of the decade and nearly doubling the previous biggest opening weekend for an A24 title. Scream 7 did $2.5M there in Australia in its first frame back at the end of February.

Other territory shoutouts for Backrooms are South Korea ($2.7M / No. 2, but beating Mandalorian and Grogu‘s No. 3 $1M take), Middle East ($2.4M /No. 2), Scandinavia ($2.2M / No. 1), and Italy ($2M / No. 1, ahead of Scream 7‘s $1.8M). 

Next weekend, the Kane Parsons directed movie opens doors in Spain, Russia & CIS, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Slovenia. France, Germany, Poland, and Belgium will follow two weeks later.

Disney’s Stars Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu saw an international weekend of $27.8M in 52 territories, drop 53%. Total global weekend was $52.8M which also includes the $25M, -69% tumble in the North American. Running global is $246.6M with $109.2M from abroad, $137.4M domestic.

Disney says that Mando and Baby Yoda are still the top non-local movie this weekend in France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, NZ, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Updated total cumes are UK ($15M), Germany ($11.2M), Japan ($9.6M), China ($9.2M), Australia ($7.7M), France ($7.1M), Mexico ($5.9M), Spain ($3.9M), Italy ($2.9M) and Poland ($2.1M).

YouTube fever isn’t just a North American thing, but around the globe with Focus Features’ Obsession minting $40.2M from both Universal and non-Universal territories this weekend, after eight new markets opening for a total count of 45 territories. Global for the Curry Barker movie stands at $148M; it has a way to go before toppling London Has Fallen ($206M) and Downton Abbey ($195M) as Focus’ highest grossing movie of all-time. However, in the U.S., the horror romance is the best that Focus has ever seen.

Total foreign weekend on Obsession is $13.8M ($10.6M from 45 Uni territories, and $3.2M from 11 non-Uni markets) along with an amazing $26.4M third weekend hold stateside.

Uni territory India posted a great $900K weekend at 362 screens, the No. 1 MPA title in the market, which is ahead of all key comps: more than double Weapons, more than 3x Sinners and The Invisible Man,and more than 6x Longlegs and Talk To Me. Israel opened to $300K at 29 screens, ranking No. 2 on Thursday and Friday before surpassing Backrooms on Saturday to claim the No. 1 spot. The start here is above M3GAN, The Black Phone, The Invisible Man and more than double Get Out, Talk To Me, Weapons and Speak No Evil. Philippines was also strong with a $300K opening at 37 screens, launching into a national holiday on Wednesday and the top MPA movie in the market. That gross has surpassed the lifetimes of Speak No Evil, The Substance, and The Black Phone. The opening is also well above The Invisible Man, Longlegs, and more than double Talk To Me.

Lionsgate and Universal’s Michael continues to be more epic than Epic Records with a running global cume of $846.2M, $339.9M and more than a half billion abroad with $506.3M. And Japan hasn’t even opened yet. It’s looking really good for producer Graham King to beat his own box office records with Michael poised to dance past Bohemian Rhapsody‘s $911M all-time record for a musical biopic.

Global weekend for Michael was $31.8M with $20.1M from 83 offshore territories and 8,304 locations in its sixth weekend.

Notables for the Antoine Fuqua directed more include UK with a weekend 6 of $2.3M, despite the onslaught of sunny weather for a $64.7M cume, well ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody. Australia with a great sixth frame of $1.8M and $29M cume also above the Freddy Mercury biopic and Oppenheimer. Brazil with $1.5M and a $30.5M cume, beating Despicable Me 4 to become Universal’s highest grossing movie in the market of all-time. Korea added $1.3M for a $10.3M cume. Sixth weekend in France is $1.2M with a near $51M total, yes, ahead of both Oppenheimer and Bohemian Rhapsody. Mexico has $1.1M for a $30.6M cume, ahead of both those comps as well. Germany, the most toured Jackson country, is $1.1M in weekend 6 with a $31.7M cume ahead of BoRhap.

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