Refresh for more…No payola going on here, just pure ticket sales around the world. Michael remained atop the box office charts like it was a 1982 Billboard music chart, reclaiming No. 1 in his fourth frame with $83.8M ($26.1M U.S./$57.7M Int’l in 83 territories) for a running global cume of $703.8M ($282.7M U.S./$421M overseas). The respective domestic and international weekend dips of -14% via Lionsgate and -31% via Universal is everything a competing studio can be jealous of. And get this, Japan, which is a bound to be a big grossing territory (Jackson’s finale concert doc This Is It made $57M there), doesn’t open until June 12.

Global Imax screens grossed $5.2M with North America ringing up $2M, as Lionsgate gained them back. Running cume is $60.4M WW for the pic in large format, $30.1M coming from domestic and $30.3M from international.

Stateside it’s the second No. 1 weekend for Michael.

What was new for the Antoine Fuqua directed movie this weekend? Korea which opened to $4.9M, No. 1 in the market, which is great because U.S. stuff post Covid struggles there. The pic was released on the newly created Culture Day (May 13). Michael posted the highest grossing musical biopic opening of all time as well as the biggest MPA opening of the year in the market, deafening Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.  Playing on 1,733 screens, it’s the widest release ever there for a musical biopic. Audience reactions are excellent with a 95% CGV Egg score.

After three weekends, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has catwalked past the half billion mark with an estimated $546.2M ($175.9M Domestic and $370.3M International). It’s the No. 4 MPA global release so far YTD behind Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Michael and Project Hail Mary. Global third frame was $69M WW ($18M U.S., $50.6M from abroad, -35%).

More…we’re not done yet.

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