Either way,Ride or Dies start gave some much needed oomph to summer turnstiles.
Its launch is 58% bigger thanFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Rounding out the Top 5,Francecollared $3.1M (+28% vs.Furiosa).
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’Sony Pictures
Markets still to release include Italy, Japan and China later this month.
In Imax,Bad Boysdelivered $8.2M including $3M from overseas.
Chinadebuted this weekend to an estimated $3.6M, ranking as the No.
2 U.S. title behindThe Garfield Movieon what was a local holiday frame.
Opening weekend results in China are 54% ahead ofIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Imax accounted for a strong 34% of the opening with $1.2M.
Sony/AlconsThe Garfield Moviekeeps purring offshore, down just 44%.
The frame added$15.3Mfrom 61 markets.
The full overseas cume is now$124.1Mfor$192.7Mglobal.
Still to release are France and Japan.
The weekend pushed the currentApesfranchise across $2B worldwide to $2.043B.
In Brazil, its the top movie of the year.
ParamountsIFadded another$6.2Mfrom 65 overseas markets to take its running cume to$67.2M.
The John Krasinski pic now has a global total of$160.7M.
The film opens next weekend in Japan and China.
Next weekends major global wide release is Disney/Pixars anticipatedInside Out 2.
