Box Office Results: Creed III Knocks Out the Competition

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Score one for Michael B. Jordan as his directorial debut,, just rocketed past expectations and opened with a sensational $58.6 million — a franchise record, according to Deadline, and the best opening for a sports movie ever. Internationally, the sequel (the first without Sylvester Stallone) earned $41.8M en route to a $100.4 million global debut.

Comparatively, the original finished with a $173.5M global take ($109M domestic, $63M international) in 2015, while earned a respectable $214M worldwide ($115.7M/$98M) in 2018. will easily overtake those total to become the highest-grossing entry in the trilogy, and might actually surpass the $300M (unadjusted for inflation) total of to become the highest-grossing flick.

Word of mouth should help as audiences awarded with a 96% score on RottenTomatoes and an A- CinemaScore. We loved it too, as you can tell by our review and rankings.

Meanwhile, dipped another 62% to bring its domestic total to $186.3M. Worldwide, the Marvel threequel has collected $419.5M and has a ways to go if it hopes to beat ($519.3M) and ($622.6M). That’ll be tough with Creed III performing above expectations and an upcoming docket that includes,,, and .

held well, dipping just 54% in its sophomore frame to bring its domestic total to $41.2M. Worldwide, Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy has collected $52M.

Also, for those of you keeping track at home, James Cameron’s  ($670.6M) needs just $4M to surpass ($674.3M) as the eighth highest-grossing domestic film of all time and $8M to top ($678.8M). Not bad for a film the internet claimed no one wanted. Worldwide, Cameron’s epic sits at No. 3 with $2.281 billion. Adjusted for inflation, lands at No. 22 on the domestic release chart, just behind and. No matter how