In terms of global box-office, it’s No. 2, just behind Bohemian Rhapsody, the Oscar-winning 2018 biopic of Queen‘s Freddie Mercury. Here are the 25 top-grossing biopics of musicians in terms September 19, 2023 · 3 min read. After hitting $912 million in ticket sales at the global box office this past weekend, writer-director Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (currently playing in So far, Bohemian has picked up a staggering $624.6 million at the foreign box office, according to Box Office Mojo. (Compare that to $209.5M for A Star Is Born .) The current worldwide total for Bohemian Rhapsody is the champion of the world box office. Sometime Monday or Tuesday, the Queen biopic — one of the final films released by 20th Century Fox as a stand-alone Hollywood studio The only movies that made more than $650m OS-China, more OS than Bohemian Rhapsody, but less OS-China than Bohemian Rhapsody, are The Hobbit 1 and Star Wars VIII. The movies above it in OS-China are: Titanic and Avatar All three Avengers movies Furious 7 Star Wars VII Jurassic World Harry Potter VII part 2 Frozen Minions At one movie theater in Nagoya, in central Japan, moviegoers are being offered a 200-yen ($1.90) discount if they turn up in a Queen T-shirt, 400 yen if they wear a white tank top and 700 yen for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Will Rock the Box Office With $30 Million Opening By Dave McNary. Plus Icon. Dave McNary Hallstrom was the first director on the movie, and Johnston was hired for a It was classical ballet vs. arena rock as The Nutcracker and the Four Realms took on Bohemian Rhapsody at the box office this weekend. As expected, the story of Queen’s frontman, Freddie Mercury, rocked the competition. The movie earned $50 million, making it one of the highest openings ever for a movie centered around a musician. ks51mEA.