700 million dollars: Michael moves crowds around the world

Michael Jackson is well on his way to dethroning Queen at the top of the musical biopics of all time.

There’s no stopping the King of Pop.

The musical biopic Michael has just reached a symbolic milestone at the global box office with more than $700 million in revenue across the planet.

This weekend, the film dedicated to Michael Jackson and distributed by Universal internationally and by Lionsgate in the United States, even made its return to the top of the US box office, for its fourth weekend of release. A particularly rare performance.

To date, Michael thus accumulates 706 million dollars in global revenues, including 424 million internationally and 282 million on American territory. And the phenomenon could still grow: the film has still not been released in Japan, a major market for pop culture and the music of Michael Jackson.

With this dynamic, Michael could well end up exceeding the 911 million dollars of Bohemian Rhapsody and become the biggest musical biopic of all time at the box office.

Another huge success of the moment: The Devil Wears Prada 2. The nostalgic sequel worn by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci is now approaching $550 million in worldwide revenue. If North America already represents 175.9 million, it is especially abroad that the phenomenon is exploding with 370.3 million collected to date. This second opus has already garnered almost double the number of dollars compared to the first released in 2006 (326 million), thanks in particular to the British (36.9 million), Italian (34.6 million), Brazilian (27 million) and Mexican (24.6 million) markets. An excellent operation for Disney, which had invested 100 million dollars The Devil Wears Prada 2.

On the other hand, the situation is more complicated for Mortal Kombat II. The sequel produced by Warner Bros. had a complicated second weekend and only collected $10 million in 79 countries, a drop of 53% compared to its launch. After two weeks of operation, the adaptation of the famous video game totaled 60 million dollars in America and totaled 101 million worldwide. Still a modest score for a film with a budget estimated at $80 million. This could call into question the plans for a third part.