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 Re: Intl. Box-Office: Taken 2 hits $200 million worldwide! Quote: Ted grossed $14.4 million in 43 markets this weekend for a new foreign total of $251 million. That makes it Universal Pictures International's number one movie this year ahead of Snow White and the Huntsman ($241.3 million) and Battleship ($237.6 million), both of which are big budget, effects-driven movies that had guaranteed overseas appeal.
Worldwide, Ted has now earned $469 million, which makes it the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy ahead of the first Hangover's $467.5 million. With openings in Malaysia, India, Venezuela and Japan on the way, Ted will ultimately wind up above $500 million.
Outside of China and Russia, where figures aren't available, Looper earned $8.5 million this weekend. Combining the reporting markets with extrapolations from some available data in China and Russia suggests that Looper has already earned around $75 million overseas, and will likely wind up over $100 million before the end of its run.
Looper's doing very well overseas and I said in an earlier post Ted could possibly make half a billion dollars worldwide and looks like it could exceed it. Very successful runs for both.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Taken 2 hits $200 million worldwide! Saw this like 2 days back. The Expendables has officially hit $300m WW total. http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/avi-ler ... ndables-2/
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Top Ten http://www.insidekino.com/BO/2012OKT.htmAnother update of the top ten movies of the year in 40 countries...
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Taken 2 hits $200 million worldwide! Great charts as always mark  Can't believe how HUGE Ice Age movies are overseas after 4 movies still
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"The 23rd installment in the James Bond series is looking like a worldwide juggernaut and could be the biggest in the series; sets attendance records in the U.K.
Easily dominating the foreign box office, James Bond pic Skyfall opened to a staggering $77.7 million from 25 markets, paving the way for the 23rd installment in the multi-billion franchise to become the best of the series.
The third Bond outing starring Daniel Craig as 007 opened a full two weeks before its Nov. 9 domestic debut and placed No. 1 everywhere. The Sony and MGM pic commanded $32.4 million in the U.K., shattering several records.
IMAX turned in $3.5 million from 27 theaters in 15 territories -- the exhibitor's largest opening ever for a non-holiday, non-summer title.
"This picture has such an incredible DNA and to be so loved by critics and audiences alike will push it be one of the biggest, if not biggest, Bond pics," Sony worldwide president of distribution Rory Bruer said.
Casino Royale, also starring Craig, is the top-grossing Bond pic to date, earning $599 million worldwide, including $432 million internationally.
Sony said Skyfall smashed the all-time Saturday attendance record in the U.K., as well as posting the No. 2 opening weekend in history, behind just the 3D Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2.
In France, Skyfall drew $9.1 million from some 700 situations. Russia opened to $8.6 million. The South Korea bow scooped up 49% of the market with $$6.1 million. Skyfall set an opening record for a Bond title in Brazil ($3.2 million) and drew $1.4 million in Belgium.
The 22 previous Bond titles dating from the first, 1962’s Dr. No (which generated $43.4 million overseas) to 2008’s Quantum of Solace ($407.7 million), have tallied total foreign revenues of $3.277 billion.
Biggest Bond not starring the British actor was No. 20, 2002’s Die Another Day with Pierce Brosnan as 007, which drew $271.1 million. (The biggest foreign grosser of the seven Sean Connery Bonds produced by Eon was No. 4, 1965’s Thunderball, $77.6 million).
Meanwhile, Argo, actor-director Ben Affleck’s international thriller, opened No. 1 in Australia ($2.1 million including previews at 351 situations) and grossed $5 million on the weekend overall at some 480 sites in 15 territories for a per-screen average of $nearly 12,350. It held at No. 1 in Taiwan in its second round there ($302,000 from 68 spots.
Debuts in Spain, Germany, the Ukraine, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and in the Middle East powered Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania -- a comedy voiced by Adam Sandler and Kevin James about a boy who discovers Dracula is real -- to an $18.1 million fourth week of foreign release at 5,550 sites in 50 markets and pushing the title’s foreign gross total to $68.8 million. The Spain opening provided $3.6 million at 623 spots.
Opening in 12 new territories in its second weekend, last week’s No. 1 title overseas, Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 4, grossed $14.1 million this time – down 47% from its opening round – from 4,467 locations in 45 territories, lifting its foreign gross total to $48.3 million.
No. 1 debuts are expected in Peru, Singapore and Malaysia with a No. 2 bow in The Netherlands generating $538,000 at 45 spots for a per-screen average of nearly $12,000. Paranormal Activity 4 opens this week in seven markets including Japan.
Universal opened The Bourne Legacy in China, where the action’s No. 1 debut furnished an estimated $11 million in its first four days. The figure is larger “than the combined lifetime totals of the three previous Bourne films in China,” said the distributor. The China figure provided almost all of the weekend’s $11.5 million overall gross drawn from some 6,000 playdates in 25 territories. Foreign cume stands at $138.5 million.
Grossing $10.1 million at 6,534 venues in 64 markets, Taken 2 pushed its total foreign gross just shy of the $200-million mark ($199.6 million) and to $314 million worldwide. 20th Century Fox is handling the thriller starring Liam Neeson in most foreign markets while co-producer EuropaCorp is distributing the sequel in 33 markets accounting for a weekend tally of $3.6 million at 2,500 spots and a cume of $56.8 million.
In Spain, Warner Bros. Espana’s release of Lo Impossible (The Impossible), director Juan Antonio Bayona’s action adventure costarring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, dominated the market for the third consecutive weekend, drawing $8.7 million from 643 screens and lifting its market cume to $34.3 million.
Over 21 rounds on the foreign theatrical circuit, DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is breathing hard on the half-billion gross mark ($495.7 million). The weekend provided the Paramount release with $8.4 million drawn from 2,153 situations in 28 countries. Second weekend action in the U.K. dipped just 20% to $4.7 million from some 540 sites, taking the No. 2 market spot.
The biggest grossing French-language title in France on the weekend was Wild Bunch Distribution’s release of Astrerix et Obelix: Au Service De Sa Majeste, the fourth comedy adventure directed by Laurent Tirard based on a series of popular French comic books. The live action title in 3D starring Gerard Depardieu finished No. 2 (after Skyfall) in its second round with an estimated $5.1 million drawn from 762 playdates. Market cume stands at $15.3 million.
Ted, director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, pushed its international gross total to $270.3 million -- with two territories still to play, including Japan -- thanks to an $5 million weekend at 2,005 locations in 36 markets. (Worldwide tally is $488.9 million.) Weekend action from the film’s India opening will not be reported until Monday.
Opening strongly in France was Stars Des Annees 80, co-directors Frederic Forestier and Thomas Langmann’s comedy about two producers staging concerts featuring 80’s pop stars. The Warner Bros. France release premiered at some 560 locations and drew an estimated $4 million.
Disney’s Frankenweenie, director Tim Burton’s comedy animation with horror overtones, drew $3.5 million in its second round overseas playing in 27 territories, raising its foreign cume to $17.7 million. Director Oliver Stone’s Savages opened No. 2 in Italy ($1.2 million at 308 sites), and drew $3 million on the weekend overall at 1,400 dates in 35 markets. Overseas cume stands at $26.8 million.
Other international cumes: Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $73.2 million; Universal’s Pitch Perfect, $2.5 million; Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, $712 million; Universal’s ParaNorman, $38.5 million; Fox’s The Watch, $31.3 million; and Warner Bros. France’s Les Seigneurs, $19.2 million in France only. "SOURCE____________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates with $77.7 million! that France opening seems kind of underwhelming
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates with $77.7 million! I don't think those numbers for Hotel Transylvania are good in OS markets. It still has a long way to go but for these many markets the total is quite low.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates with $77.7 million! As of Oct 21, TE2 has $219m overseas, and 38m admissions worldwide.
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""Wreck-It Ralph" opens tentatively while "Madagascar 3" is poised to become DreamWorks Animation's biggest foreign hit.
Skyfall once again overpowered the foreign theatrical circuit on the weekend as the 23rd installment of the multi-billion-dollar James Bond franchise, expanding its offshore run by 56 markets and grossing an eye-popping $156 million.
Markets handled by Sony delivered $139 million of that total with licensees of co-distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer coming up with $17 million. IMAX reported its weekend take at 132 locations in 36 territories was $4.3 million, or more than $33,000 per site.
In just 10 days of overseas release, the third Bond outing, starring Daniel Craig as 007, has taken in a whopping total of $287 million, propelling Sony International to its best year ever on the foreign circuit with total 2012 box office of $2.160 billion. (The film opens this week in the U.S. and Canada.)
Skyfall’s weekend take this time – nearly double the $78.6 million opening foreign weekend gross last round from 6,354 locations in 25 markets -- is the third highest of 2012, surpassed only by the offshore weekend revenues logged in late April and early May by Marvel/Disney’s The Avengers.
A No. 1 German opening delivered $23.9 million, which Sony said was the market’s biggest-grossing 2012 debut. The U.K.’s second weekend take was $25.7 million, lifting the 10-day cume there to $85.8 million. France kicked in $14.3 million for a two-round market cume of $30 million.
Italy launched with $7.9 million, a market record for a Hollywood title this year. Russia came up with $5.2 million in Skyfall’s second round there, pushing the market cume to $16.1 million. Openings in Switzerland, India, Holland and Mexico generated $5.3 million, $5.1 million, $4.4 million and $3.2 million, respectively.
An MGM/Eon/Danjaq coproduction, directed by Sam Mendes and filmed in the U.K., Turkey and China and France, Skyfall is well on track to become the biggest Bond grosser ever on the foreign circuit.
Biggest offshore grosser of the franchise is 2006’s Casino Royale, also starring Craig, which bagged $432.2 million, while the biggest Bond film not starring the British actor was No. 20, 2002’s Die Another Day with Pierce Brosnan as 007, which drew $271.1 million. (The biggest foreign grosser of the seven Sean Connery Bonds produced by Eon was No. 4, 1965’s Thunderball, $77.6 million).
The 22 previous Bond titles dating from the first, 1962’s Dr. No (which generated $43.4 million overseas) to 2008’s Quantum of Solace ($407.7 million), have tallied total foreign revenues of $3.277 billion.
Opening at some 2,500 situations in a half dozen territories was Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s 3D family animation title that drew $12 million on the weekend with $6.1 million coming from the film’s Russia opening and $4.9 million from Mexico. Ralph grossed $49.1 million in its simultaneous domestic debut.
Premiering in six new territories in its third overseas weekend, Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 4, grossed $14.3 million – just about even with last weekend’s take -- from 4,506 locations in 51 territories, lifting its foreign gross total to $68.8 million.
Its No. 2 Japan bow generated $1.1 million from 156 spots while its No. 3 France debut delivered $4.3 million from 250 cinemas, more than 60% ahead of the market opening takes of 2011’s Paranormal Activity 3 and 2010’s Paranormal Activity 2.
Holiday business in Europe and Latin American fueled Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania -- a comedy voiced by Adam Sandler and Kevin James about a boy who discovers Dracula is real -- to a $13.7 million fifth week of foreign release at 4,940 sites in 50 markets and pushing the title’s foreign gross total to $115 million. The second Spain round delivered a solid $3.4 million at 643 spots.
Having broken the $500-million overseas gross market during the week, DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted continued to pile it on over the weekend, taking in another $7.9 million in its 22d round at 1,777 spots in 28 markets.
The Paramount release thus lifted its foreign cume to $512.4 million to become the second biggest offshore DreamWorks Animation grosser. (Biggest is 2010’s Shrek Forever After, which drew $513.9 million.)
Universal's The Bourne Legacy became the distributor’s third biggest-grossing release in China; the weekend drew $6.5 million for an 11-day market cume of $24.1 million. The China figure provided almost all of the weekend’s $6.7 million take from a total of 5,300 playdates in 17 territories. Foreign cume for the action sequel stands at $152.3 million.
Grossing $6.2 million at 4,114 venues in 63 markets, Taken 2 pushed its total foreign gross well past the $200-million mark ($212.7 million). 20th Century Fox is handling the thriller starring Liam Neeson in most foreign markets while co-producer EuropaCorp is distributing the sequel in 37 markets accounting for a weekend tally of $1.89 million at 1,721 spots and a cume of $60.3 million.
Disney’s Frankenweenie, director Tim Burton’s comedy animation with horror overtones, drew $5.3 million in its third round overseas playing in 32 territories, raising its foreign cume to $24.8 million. Worldwide tally stands at $58.3 million.
In Spain, Warner Bros. Espana’s release of Lo Impossible (The Impossible), director Juan Antonio Bayona’s action adventure costarring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, dominated the market for the fourth consecutive weekend, said Warners, drawing $4.6 million from 560 screens and lifting its market cume to $42.5 million.
Ted, director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, pushed its international gross total to $277.5.9 million -- with two territories still to play, including Japan -- thanks to an $4.3 million weekend at 1,600 locations in 33 markets. (Worldwide tally is breathing hard on the half-million mark, $496.2 million.)
Argo, actor-director Ben Affleck’s international thriller, grossed $4.1 million on the weekend overall at some 1,323 locations in 17 territories. Offshore cume stands at $13.4 million. A No. 1 second Australia round generated $1.9 million at 351 spots for a market cume of $4.9 million.
Universal’s release in France of Un Plan Perfect (Fly Me To The Moon), director Pascal Chaumel’s comedy costarring Danny Boon and Diane Kruger, opened No. 4 in the market with $4 million drawn from 576 screens. Universal said the figure was “lower than expected.”
Opening as Japan’s No.1 foreign import was Twentieth Century Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which collected $2.1 million from 405 sites in the market, just about its entire weekend take from a total of 466 spots in three markets. Offshore cume stands at $75.4 million.
Other international cumes: Universal’s Pitch Perfect, $3.1 million; Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $27.1 million; Universal’s Savages, $29.9 million; Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, $714.5 million; and Universal’s ParaNorman, $40.6 million. "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/f ... nds-386274_____________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! Great for all animation movies specially Madagascar and IA4 is still chugging along. The Bourne Legacy is also doing surprisingly well.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! The Expendables 2 is a big success internationally. It outgrossed The Hunger Games, Men in Black 3, Sherlock Holmes 2, Safe House, Snow White and the Huntsman, Ted, Journey 2, The Intouchables, Taken 2, Titanic 3D, Prometheus and The Bourne Legacy in Brazil this year to be the 7th biggest movie of the year.
No wonder TE3 is coming. Expect $400m worldwide next time. China is going to get $100m alone.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! How much did the second get in China?
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! $54m
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! TE2: $309.2m worldwide  --- BOMs WW chart should now look like this: 17 The Expendables 2 LGF $309.2 $84.9 DOM vs. $224.4 INTL 18 Battleship Uni. $302.8 $65.2 DOM vs. $237.6 INTL 19 Wrath of the Titans WB $302.0 $83.7 DOM vs. $218.3 INTL
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! I don't think TE3 will be big in OS next time. Domestic audience seem to have declined and with another movie international audience will start declining as well. The success of the movie came from one or two major markets rest of the markets it did average at best.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! Is Frankenweenie also a disappointment overseas?
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! Mostly yes. I don' think it will reach $100m OS total at this pace unless it breaks out in a major market.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! Jack Sparrow wrote: I don't think TE3 will be big in OS next time. Domestic audience seem to have declined and with another movie international audience will start declining as well. The success of the movie came from one or two major markets rest of the markets it did average at best. You don't know what you're talking about. It increased in almost every market. The International total for TE1 was $171m, but for TE2 it is currently $225m. A difference of $54m does not come from just two major markets. China increased by only $20m. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Skyfall dominates the world! A difference of $54m is good increase from $170m but it is still not great considering the reviews of the sequel, its more of inflation and few markets breakout.
The OS audience generally don't catch the original movies which is why the sequels explode from DVD business. The same happened with Taken but given the increase that Taken 2 got and Expendables 2 made you can easily tell that the decline will start soon, otherwise inflation might keep the numbers at level. They also need to keep the budget under control next time but given that Arnold and Sly are both getting their own movies, would mean that their price tag will increase for the third another advantage that Taken had over these movies.
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"Opening at 12,812 locations in 61 overseas markets, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 virtually sucked the box office oxygen out of the foreign theatrical circuit with a debut gross of $199.6 million – the biggest offshore opening launch of the year.
The weekend take easily beats the opening of last year’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I, which drew an estimated $144 million at about 9,950 locations in 54 overseas markets. To get an idea of just how big this weekend’s action was, Breaking Dawn 2’s debut tally just about matches the entire foreign box office of series original, 2008’s Twilight ($199.8 million).
Breaking day-and-date with its domestic release, the fifth and final title based on Stephenie Meyer’s series of novels about a young woman (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson) blasted its way to double-digit weekend debuts in the U.K. ($24.4 million), Russia and eight other CIS markets ($20.3 million), Brazil ($19 million), France ($16.4 million), Australia ($12.7 million), Italy ($12.4 million), Spain ($11.8 million) and Mexico (also $11.8 million).
Included in Breaking Dawn 2’s overseas weekend take was $3 million registered at 82 IMAX locations.
2009’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon cumed $413.2 million foreign while the following year’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse finished its overseas run with a gross of $398 million. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I drew a total offshore gross of $430.9 million.
The first four Twilight films grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide of which $1.4 billion came from the foreign circuit. (Worldwide total for Breaking Dawn 2 stands at $340.9 million.)
Pushed aside to a distant No. 2 was Sony/MGM’s Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise, which had been the foreign circuit’s box office champion for three prior stanzas.
The third outing starring Daniel Craig as 007 collected $49.6 million this weekend from 9,950 locations in 83 territories, pushing its foreign gross tally to $507.9 million. That makes Skyfall the biggest-grossing (not adjusted for inflation) James Bond title ever released on the foreign circuit. Top market on the weekend was Germany where the film tallied $10.3 million at 1,330 sites.
Flight starring Denzel Washington got off to a tentative start offshore, premiering No. 5 in Russia with $1 million extracted from some 400 spots. The film’s very early foreign cume stands at $2.1 million. Distributor Paramount said that major-market openings are due in January and February “during the awards season.”
Continuing to show overseas box office traction after early lackluster rounds in Turkey, South Africa, India and Iceland, Cloud Atlas, the soul-searching sci-fi drama costarring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. The film seized the No. 1 spot in Russia (via Twentieth Century Fox working on a distribution fee basis with A Company Russia) for the second consecutive round, drawing $1.7 million from 1,300 spots for a market cume of $12.1 million.
Thanks to solid holdovers in France ($1.6 million at 346 spots at No. 3 in the market) and in the U.K. (No. 4 with $1.3 million drawn from 345 locations), Argo, actor-director Ben Affleck’s international thriller, grossed $8.7 million on the weekend overall at 3,451 screens in 38 territories. Offshore cume stands at $40.4 million.
Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania, a comedy voiced by Adam Sandler and Kevin James about a boy who discovers Dracula is real, grossed $7.8 million at 4,435 sites in 57 markets. The title’s foreign gross total stands at $140.3 million.
Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s 3D family animation title, playing in 19 territories, dipped to $4.8 million overseas its third round in 18 territories, and lifting its foreign gross total to $35.7 million. Worldwide take stands at $157.2 million.
DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians opened at some 7,500 situations in China and bagged $3.1 million. The Paramount release, featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin and Hugh Jackman, opens in eight markets this week including Hong Kong, Russia and the Ukraine and Singapore.
Sony’s Here Comes the Boom, a comedy starring Kevin James as a biology teacher turned martial arts fighter, drew $2.5 million in its second round overseas at 975 screens in 17 markets. A No. 3 ranking in Germany kicked in $1.7 million at 559 locations.
Pushing its foreign gross total to $82 million was Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 4, which collected $2.3 million on its fifth offshore weekend from 3,316 spots in 48 markets.
Universal’s The Bourne Legacy pushed its foreign cume to $161.3 million thanks to a $2.1 million weekend at some 5,000 playdates in nine markets while Twentieth Century Fox’s-EuropaCorp.’s Taken 2 grossed $1.95 million on the weekend an offshore cume of $219.5 million.
Top-grossing local language newcomer in the France market is Le Capital, director Costa-Gavras’ big business drama starring Gabriel Byrne. The Mars Distribution release opened No. 4 with an estimated $1.3 million derived from some 300 screens.
Other international cumes: Universal’s Pitch Perfect, $4.1 million (worldwide, $65.7 million); Fox’s The Watch, $33 million; Paramount’s Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away, $3.7 million after a 819,000 second weekend in Japan); Universal’s Ted, $282 million (worldwide, $500.7 million); Wild Bunch’s Asterix et Obelix: Aus Service de sa Majeste, $32.3 million over five rounds in France only; and Universal’s Anna Karenina, $10.8 million from Taiwan, China, the U.K. and Ireland.
Also, Warner Bros. Espana’s The Impossible, $48.5 million over six rounds in Spain only; Pathe’s Nous York, $3.8 million over two stanzas in France only; Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $78.6 million; Universal’s ParaNorman, $42.6 million; Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, $27.8 million; Warner Bros. France’s Stars Des Annees 80, $11.4 million in France only; Fox’s The Sessions, 753,467 in two markets; and Universal’s Un Plan Parfait (Fly Me To The Moon), $8.3 million in France only."SOURCE________________________________________________________________________
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" Although dropping 51 percent from its opening-round gross, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 still monopolized the foreign theatrical circuit for the second consecutive weekend, drawing $97.5 million from some 13,500 locations in 73 overseas territories.
The fifth and final title based on Stephenie Meyer’s series of novels about a young woman (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson) has blasted its way to a total international tally of $350.8 million, about $80 million less than the franchise’s all-time offshore box-office champ, last year’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 ($430.9 million).
Breaking Dawn Part 2 -- held the top spot in most major markets, although it dropped to No. 2 in Australia (thanks to the debut of Skyfall) and in Russia (bumped by the opening of Rise of the Guardians) and No. 3 in South Korea (finishing third after a pair of local-language titles).
A Germany opening generated $15.2 million at 765 sites – a market record for a Twilight title – while an Austria debut contributed $1.8 million and a premiere in German-speaking Switzerland came up with $1.5 million.
Lionsgate International, which is handling foreign distribution of the Summit Entertainment co-production, said Breaking Dawn -- Part 2’s mighty action helped lift the distributor’s 2012 total foreign box office past the $1 billion mark.
Finishing No. 2 was Sony/MGM’s Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise, which collected $41.3 million from 7,975 spots in 60 markets handled by Sony. Results from territories handled by licensees of co-distributor MGM were “not current available” on Sunday.
The third outing starring Daniel Craig as 007 collected a total foreign gross of $507.6 million via both Sony/MGM through Nov. 18. (Sony has so far collected about 86 percent of Skyfall’s foreign revenue.) The film's current international gross total is estimated to be at least $568 million.
In its Australia opening, Skyfall generated $12.5 million at 597 sites for a per-screen average of $21,000, said Sony. In New Zealand, it drew a 65 percent share of the market’s total weekend gross with $1.68 million at 111 spots.
Lighting up the foreign circuit was Twentieth Century Fox’s release of Life of Pi, the film version of Yann Martel’s novel about a young castaway and a Bengal tiger. Directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee, the Fox 2000 co-production opened at No. 1 in China ($10.5 million at 4,500 spots), Taiwan ($2.2 million at 165 locations), Hong Kong ($1.4 million at 96 situations) and India ($3.4 million at 697 sites).
Overall on the weekend, in its opening offshore launch, Life of Pi grossed $17.5 million at 5,458 locations in the four markets. IMAX said the film tallied $3 million on 97 IMAX screens in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, for a per-screen average of more than $30,000.
In its second round on the foreign circuit, DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians opened in eight markets, grossing $10 million from 3,869 cinemas and lifting its very early offshore cume to $13.5 million.
The Paramount release, a $145 million fantasy title featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin and Hugh Jackman, premiered No. 1 in Russia with $5.85 million elicited from some 800 locations. Guardians takes off in some 50 markets this week including Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea.
Thanks to a solid holdover in France ($1.4 million at 360, No. 4 in the market), Argo -- actor-director Ben Affleck’s international thriller -- grossed $6 million on the weekend overall at 2,700 screens in 47 territories. Offshore cume stands at $50 million.
Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania, a comedy voiced by Adam Sandler and Kevin James about a boy who discovers Dracula is real, grossed $5.5 million at 3,825 sites in 58 markets. The title’s foreign gross total stands at $147.9 million.
Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s 3D family animation title playing in 19 territories, dipped to $2.1 million overseas in its fourth round -- lifting its foreign gross total to $41.2 million. Its worldwide take stands at $190.8 million.
Elevating its very early overseas cume to $3.4 million was Flight, starring Denzel Washington, which has yet to really take off outside of its domestic release. The drama's fourth foreign round in five markets drew $723,000. "Major focus of the international release will hit theaters at the beginning of next year, to coincide with awards season," said distributor Paramount.
Opening No. 4 in the U.K. was The Weinstein Co’s Silver Linings Playbook, director David O. Russell’s dramedy co-starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. A first round at 394 sites lured an estimated $2 million. The film also opened No. 7 in Russia.
The biggest-grossing local-language newcomer in France was Therese Desqueyroux, an adaptation of Francois Mauriac’s 1927 novel about thwarted passion and attempted murder.
The UGC Distribution release, which played at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival, stars Audrey Tautou, and was directed and scripted by the late Claude Miller. The opening round at some 350 screens drew an estimated $1.2 million, sufficient for a No. 5 market ranking.
Other international cumes: Universal’s The Man With The Iron Fists, $750,000 in four markets; Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 4, $84.5 million; Universal’s Pitch Perfect, $4.6 million; Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $79 million."SOURCE__________________________________________________________________________ _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Ted passes $500 million worldwide Is The Bourne Legacy's overseas run nearing completion? Any markets left?
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Ted passes $500 million worldwide David wrote: Is The Bourne Legacy's overseas run nearing completion? Any markets left? No markets left. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Ted passes $500 million worldwide David wrote: Is The Bourne Legacy's overseas run nearing completion? Any markets left? China was the last market to open in and it made about $1m there in the past 7 days. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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