Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them got started overseas with a solid first day gross of $6.9 million and is looking to dominate the weekend abroad, and here in the States.
The film is set in the world of Harry Potter, but has a new cast of wizards and magical creatures. Warner Bros. anticipates that the fantasy adventure could make $200 million globally this weekend with roughly $75 million of that coming from North American audiences. As we know tracking can get this wrong so it could go even higher if word of mouth through the weekend is strong.
Fantastic Beasts, which carries a $180 million budget, opened in nine international markets on Wednesday and showed on 5,070 screens. It scored a first-place finish in every territory, including a $1.8 million bow in France, a $1.7 million debut in South Korea, and $480,000 from Indonesia. Fantastic Beasts will open in 38 more markets on Thursday, including Germany, Italy, and Australia, followed by 16 markets on Friday, including the U.K. and Mexico. The major remaining markets are China and Japan, which open the following week.
