It probably should be noted that in the Mexico numbers were boosted by the National Children's Day holiday (That and it's 6 days as well). Still impressive, but I feel these numbers might be front loaded because of that reason.
Also, you don't have to watch it with Chris Pratt in these international versions, so double bonus.
That said, I am curious why they aren't releasing it in America and other English speaking parts of the world alongside this roll out. You are one month on from Kung Fu Panda 4s release, you have 3 weeks until IF comes out, then 7 weeks till Inside Out 2 gobbles up the Animation Family Audience. Sounds like an ideal spot, you'd have to compete with The Fall Guy, but that's not competing with an audience you are aiming for.
Now though, you are coming out one week after IF (Which at the moment is slated to open better than Garfield... I'll believe that when I see it, the current audience has NOT been kind to originals.) And you only have 3 weeks until Inside Out 2 is eating into your audience share. Was that late May slot really worth holding onto? You probably could have pushed it up a couple of weeks and taken advantage of what''s going to probably be a fairly quiet May.
I'm not a business exec though, so what do I know, maybe I'm just running on School Holiday logic here from the UK and maybe US wise there's a reason they are aiming for that late May spot that I don't know of, enlighten me, because in the UK that's prime exam season, so not a great time to release animated films, but the best Summer slots after Exams already got grabbed up by Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 so I know why they didn't go June or July, I just want to know why not early May instead of Late May.
variety.com
