It took Godzilla and Kong, those cinematic titans on the Earth’s surface, to jolt the overseas market from its pandemic slumber.

Godzilla vs. Kong, directed by Adam Wingard, scared up $121.8 million in overseas territories, despite theater capacity restrictions in most markets due to the COVID-19 health crisis.

That’s the biggest international bow by a Hollywood movie since the pandemic began. The monsters definitely roared at the international box office.

The iconic behemoths were especially huge in China, where they drew $70.3 million, notching the biggest debut by a foreign movie in both 2020 and 2021.

The fourth release from Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown and Rebecca Hall, also holds the title of being the foreign film with the highest opening day pre-sales in China since the coronavirus pandemic began. An estimated $6.88 million in tickets were sold before the film featuring the clash of the monsters debuted.

Godzilla vs. Kong set a record in Imax, too. The sequel to Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island brought Imax to its biggest global box office weekend since COVID-19 gripped the entire world. The monster movie brought in $12.4 million in Imax tickets sales in its overseas theaters.

The film, which also features Shun Oguri, Brian Tyree Henry, Eiza Gonzalez, Demian Bichir, Lance Reddick and Kyle Chandler, topped the box office in all the territories where it opened. It was especially strong in Australia, Mexico, India, Taiwan and Russia.

Other films making it in the international box office race are Raya and the Last Dragon ($3.9 million), the Avatar reissue ($3.5 million in China), Tom and Jerry ($2.7 million), Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway ($2.1 million in Australia) and Nobody ($1.18 million).

Speaking of Nobody, the Bob Odenkirk action-crime-drama was anything but a nobody in the North American box office. With $6.7 million in ticket sales, Nobody edged out Raya and the Last Dragon to claim the number one spot.

With more people getting vaccinated, and major movie markets Los Angeles and New York re-opening, albeit with capacity restrictions, the recent weekend saw one of the strongest box office performances.

Among the top performers were Raya and the Last Dragon ($3.5 million), Tom and Jerry ($2.5 million), Chaos Walking ($1.19 million), and The Courier ($1.04 million).

Elsewhere, in the SVOD ratings game, Netflix still monopolized Nielsen’s chart of shows and movies streaming in households.

Nielsen tracks the ratings of the fare streamed by Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Hulu, and Netflix but lags in its reporting.

On the week of February 22 to 28, only Disney Plus’ WandaVision managed to break Netflix’s stranglehold of the SVOD ratings chart. Female-centric shows, led by Ginny & Georgia, a debuting original series that follows a mom (Brianne Howey) and daughter (Antonia Gentry) in a New England town, topped the race.

The top 10 streaming shows, in order, are: Ginny & Georgia, WandaVision, Behind Her Eyes, Firefly Lane, Bridgerton, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, Longmire, The Crew, and The Great British Baking Show.