Box Office: ‘Ico II’ Tops $1 Billion Worldwide

Variety February 26, 2023

Sony/Columbia’s “Ico II” has cleared the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office in less than a month while becoming the first film of the year to top the billion mark. Additionally, the film made it to the billion mark quicker than the first film which did so in 49 days.

“Ico II” pulled in $120.4 million globally during this weekend, upsetting last week's winner, Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and made $44.7 million during this weekend.

Ico II is now the fifth Sony Pictures film to top $1 billion worldwide as well as their seventh highest-grossing domestic movie of all time with $358.9 million — only $15 million behind 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” and $31 million away from the original film's entire lifeline gross. On the worldwide chart, it’s now the highest grossing film of the year with $1.02 billion, edging MGM-Orion’s “Detective Carl Returns.” The tentpole’s international total, currently at $666.3 million, is currently the biggest of the year so far and the sixth biggest of all time for Sony.

“Ico II” however is slightly behind the current top grossing domestic film of the year “Detective Carl Returns,” which has grossed $382 million in North America thus far, for the top domestic spot.