Star Trek was always pretty popular in Germany, though. Other countries should give us a better idea what to expect from overseas.

Star Trek is like crack here. In the last 6/7 years they've been running pretty consistently TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY on rotation five days a week year round. The only exception is ENT that never got a repeat airing after its original run I think.

And it's basically the only sci-fi show of its kind on air here. SG franchise never aired, nor did Farscape. Babylon 5 aired a long time ago, but it aired on a failed pathetic try of a syndicated network system. I doubt many people even knew it was on air.

Angels & Demons - which is coming out only a week later in most markets i believe - might hurt Trek severely i fear, Davinci Code was huge overseas.

I just wanted to comment MVAs overseas gross is quite mediocre.

Star Trek isn't doing too great. I suppose it's opening was too weak for it to do anything major.

Good for Wolverine, outstanding for Angels.

17 Again will wind up with about $120m worldwide.

Nice start for Fighting in the UK.

BTW, good news for the Hollywood studios... the value of the US-$ is in free fall again (= international grosses go up)...

Right before Potter so that it can gross $600m again. Frack that shit!

LOL funny how that happens. It should help Transformers 2 as well.

Amazing hold for A&D. Not so great number for NATM2 considering it opened in most major markets. It wont even make 200M OS which would be significant drop from the 1st film.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssCons ... 9520090524

Angels & Demons looks good for about $290-$300m.

Night At The Museum should find its way to about $200m-$210m.

Wolverine at around $175m.

And Star Trek at around $120m.

Pretty ordinary grosses if you ask me......have to wait until Transformers and HP6 to see monster grosses.

Actualy it was greenlit a few weeks before A&D came out.

I wonder whether the American setting of it will hurt the film's OS performance, though.

Well Wolverine looks will at least hit 350 million and depending on how it does in Mexico and Japan could go as high as 380 million. Last Stand did about 29 million combined there.

And nice for A&D 350 Overseas is certainly possible.

It should be noted that with BOM's newest update MADAGASCAR 2 has broken the worldwide $600m barrier...

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/cha ... 008&p=.htm

If Madagascar 2 was that big overseas...one can only imagine how HUGE Ice Age 3 will be... Considering the last one made $456 million overseas... I think there's a very good shot that it'll end up with a higher OS gross than Transformers 2. I could see a $500+ million OS and a $730+ million WW gross for it. #2 OS after Harry Potter.

"Pixar/Disney's "Up" dipped its animated toes in international waters during the weekend, but it was Fox's "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" that claimed the top spot overseas for the first time with $37.2 million from 9,000 screens in 100 markets.

The family comedy, a sequel to 2006's "Night at the Museum," opened at No. 1 in China, grossing $7.4 million from 818 screens. The Ben Stiller starrer also finished first in at least 11 other territories, propelling its overseas gross past the $100 million mark ($106 million).

Its worldwide gross to date is $211.3 million.

After two stanzas atop the international circuit, Sony's "Angels & Demons" finished a close No. 2 this round, grossing $32.9 million from 10,145 screens in 101 territories.

The follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code" ranked No. 1 in at least 14 markets, including Germany, where it tallied $4.8 for the weekend, and Japan ($3.2 million). Its overseas cume is $251.7 million.

Like DreamWorks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" before it, "Up," the 10th title from Pixar/Disney, opened in Russia ahead of its domestic bow largely because of piracy concerns. It drew an animated $4.2 million from 560 screens, ranking No. 1 and marking the biggest weekend opening of a Pixar/Disney title in the territory.

Openings in Ukraine, Mexico and in South America are due this weekend.

Unlike other summer blockbusters this season, Disney -- as with its previous Pixar titles -- adopted a more deliberate overseas-release campaign for the 3-D animation saga about a septuagenarian (voiced by Ed Asner) whose house is lifted by multiple balloons to the wilds of South America.

"Up's" foreign exposure began May 13 at the Festival de Cannes, where it became the first animation title to kick off that event. A delayed Mexico opening is set for June 5, followed by Argentina on June 11. The next month brings debuts in France (July 29), Korea and Spain (both July 30). Rollouts continue in other key foreign markets throughout the fall, capped by a Japan bow Dec. 5.

Opening overseas simultaneously with its domestic release was Mandate Pictures' "Drag Me to Hell." It screamed all the way to $4.4 million from a combined 700 screens in the U.K., Israel and France, said Mandate International, which is sharing overseas distribution with Universal. The tongue-in-cheek horror title from Sam Raimi finished No. 2 in the U.K. and ranked No. 1 in the Paris area.

No. 3 during the weekend was "Terminator Salvation," which drew an action-packed $13 million from mostly Middle East and Asian markets. Sony, which is sharing overseas distribution with local distributors, said "Salvation" drew $8.6 million from 673 screens, finishing No. 1 in the seven markets it handled. The international total so far for the fourth "Terminator" title stands at $23.1 million; its worldwide gross is $113.8 million.

Fourth overall was Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which finished a month on the foreign circuit with an international cume of $170.1 million after an $8.1 million weekend from 5,000 screens in 104 markets. A delayed Mexico opening produced a decisive No. 1 market ranking with $4.4 million from 1,336 screens.

At No. 5 was Paramount's rejuvenated "Star Trek," which rocketed past the $100 million overseas mark ($101.5 million) thanks to an $8 million weekend from 4,869 situations in 59 markets. A Japan bow produced $2.2 million from 275 locations. Its worldwide tally is $311 million.

Propelled by openings in Poland, Singapore and Malaysia, the 3-D animated "Monsters vs. Aliens" drew $3.1 million during the weekend from 1,836 locations in 63 markets. Its foreign cume is $166.5 million.

Opening in 14 markets including a No. 3 bow in Australia was Universal's "State of Play," a journalism saga starring Russell Crowe, which tallied $2.6 million for the weekend overall from 1,150 locations in 27 territories. Its international cume to date is $22.4 million.

Disney's "Hannah Montana: The Movie" drew $2.4 million from 2,221 sites in 23 territories, raising its international cume to $35.2 million. Disney's "Jonas Brothers 3D" raised its cume to $3.1 million from strictly 3-D situations.

Other international cumes: Disney's "Confessions of a Shopaholic," $60.5 million; Universal's "Fast & Furious," $193.5 million; New Line's "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," $11.3 million; Focus Features/Universal's "Coraline," $23.9 million; New Line's "17 Again," $53.8 million; Universal's "Duplicity," $34.5 million; New Line's "He's Just Not That Into You," $71.8 million; Universal's "Fighting," $4.2 million; Fox's "12 Rounds," $4.1 million; and Universal's "The Last House on the Left," $3 million. "

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 2e675ffab3

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T4 is amazing considering its in 2nd weekend in south korea and has not opened in any other major territory.

I agree, Ice Age 2 was a monster in 2006, it's international gross was superb. HP6 is good for $600m, while Transformers 2 and Ice Age 3 should be in the $400-450m region. Avatar i think is the only movie that could upset for the rest of the year.

If the number is true, UP actually marks the first decline in Pixar's opening weekends - Wall-E did $5.2 million.

Is that number with or without Ukraine?

http://www.screendaily.com/night-at-the ... 93.article

Very good for Up! but once again, Pixar is nowhere near some of Dreamwork's best...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $16m
Shrek 3 - $11,657,486 (4-Day - 600)
Kung Fu Panda - $9.2m
Monsters vs. Aliens - $6.9m

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - $7.6m (460)

Why are you quoting me? I was asking about the WALL-E number Mr. R posted. I doubt the distributor would make a mistake like that. It's pretty clear Up's number is Russia only. I know that various sources sometimes lump together Russia and Ukraine as CIS territory.

Up is Russia only. Wall-E did 5.2 in Russia and 0.6 in Ukraine.

Here's from Screendaily:
"Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) said the opening was the best ever for a Disney Pixar film in Russia, beating the debut last year of Wall-E." - I just figured it out. Up beats Wall-E in local currency - 130+ m rubles against 122.2. Since when anyone gives a f$ck about the local currency? It's a funny world we live in...