News ‘Stray Kids’ Strut To No. 1 At Global Box Office With $19M+ (1 Viewer)

centen · 9 February 2026

Source: https://deadline.com/2026/02/box-office-stray-kids-zootopia-2-housemaid-send-help-1236712426/

Relevant snippet:

Before the Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie steamy lovefest, Wuthering Heights, takes over the world, this weekend belonged to K-Pop group Stray Kids as their Live Nation concert movie, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, danced to a $19.1M global win from 61 territories, electrified largely by Universal International. The pic also had bragging rights for the No. 1 pic at the weekend foreign B.O. with $13.5M, while domestic delivered $5.6M from Bleecker Street‘s new event cinema label Crosswalk at 1,724 locations.

CJ has Korea but the movie didn’t fare that well over there with an estimated $227K (we’re still figuring out why that is). Japan didn’t go this weekend. For Uni, it’s their first K-Pop movie. In several territories, the movie is besting such comps as Taylor Swift / The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Break The Silence: The Movie, Bring the Soul: The Movie, BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul and Moonage Daydream.

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centen · 9 February 2026

My takeaway from this is that JYPE might be well served at pushing Stray Kids even more internationally.

sooya_ · 9 February 2026

WOW, WHAT A MILESTONE

eclipsoul · 9 February 2026

i wanted to see it so bad but the local theater sold out quickly - then i saw how people behaved while the movie played and i suddenly felt no regret that i wasn't there

one theater in poland literally had to pause the movie because people were being obnoxiously loud, i'd be so embarrassed

centen · 9 February 2026

eclipsoul said:
i wanted to see it so bad but the local theater sold out quickly - then i saw how people behaved while the movie played and i suddenly felt no regret that i wasn't there one theater in poland literally had to pause the movie because people were being obnoxiously loud, i'd be so embarrassed

I like the event-like feel big movies can have, but yeah, people still need to be respectful! Movies are expensive, and people want to watch what they paid to watch!