Before we look more closely at the hold on Wakanda Forever, however, attention turns to Disney’ new entry this session, the animated Strange World which arrived with a thud at $9.2M in 43 overseas markets and $27.8M globally, including the domestic five-day holiday.

Strange World is original animated IP that, as we came into the weekend, was eyeing a $25M offshore start and ended up worlds away from that.

By taking this preemptive step with Strange World in such areas as the Middle East, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Vietnam and East and West Africa, we noted coming in that Disney was likely leaving money on the table.

Last year’s Encanto did just under $25M in the same markets where Strange World is not releasing — and that itself was lower than it might have been given Encanto went out when many of those areas were battling Omicron.  .

Ultimately, Strange World was consistent in that it just didn’t click anywhere.

Black Adam (WB): $2.8M intl weekend (76 markets); $215.1M intl cume/$378M global

*Bones and All (WB): $2.1M intl weekend (28 markets); $2.1M intl cume/$5.8M global

She Said (UNI): $1.3M intl weekend (48 markets); $2.1M intl cume/$6.4M global

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (SNY): $1.1M intl weekend (48 markets); $37.1M intl cume/$82.3M global

Ticket to Paradise (UNI): $615K intl weekend (79 markets); $96.8M intl cume/$162M global

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (UNI): $588K intl weekend (50 markets); $16.7M intl cume/$27.2M global

Smile (PAR): $550K intl weekend (46 markets); $110.2M intl cume/$215.7M global

Armageddon Time (UNI): $528K intl weekend (9 markets); $2.86M intl cume/$4.7M global