Yep, very big indeed. $400m is guranteed with $450m likely now.

Depending on how Potter hits it, it may have a shot at the $475m mark. I still don't seen $500m though.

Why are the Ice Age films so popular overseas exactly? Just as popular as Shrek it seems.

Ice Age 3's total is now $447m+, enters the Top 100 WW and sits at around #90.

It will probably end up with $170m + $450m = $620m, not too far off Ice Age 2's $651.9m.

Germany estimate:

1,575,000 admissions (7th best 2nd weekend of all-time)
4,050,000 admissions (12 day total - 8th biggest CGI Animation ever)

down 7 % compared to 5 day opening weekend but up 8 % compared to regular 4 day opening weekend!

That's massive , 7m admissions for sure. I knew it was going to rebound in weekend 2 after a lacklustre opening.

Arch, I'm pretty sure it'll make way more than $450 million OS and will easily pass Ice Age 2. Even if it drops 50% next weekend OS, it'll still be above $400 million after only three weeks.

Scrat really is beloved here.

IA3 easily crosses 500m+ OS in an empty marketplace like March. I think it duplicates IA2 OS at least. Shrek 3 did get close to the 2nd, despite Pirates 3 on its way.

I wonder if sequels to well-liked original films are just always destined to explode overseas? I mean, part of it is the natural expansion of the foreign markets in recent years, but the overseas gross for the original Ice Age was nothing to write home about.

I wonder how Pixar sequels would do internationally.

Ice Age 3 dropped hard in Russia but huge midweek sales really helped it.

6,350,819 admissions. after 12 days,
1,073,090,444 Russian roubles = something like 33-33.5 mln. in USD.

How much did Mad2 making in Russia. Isn' t it all time biggest hollywood film in Russia.

Edit: nm. I got this from BOM. $40,665,152. Will IA3 beat it.

7,711,993 admissions
1,101,105,615 Russian roubles so Ice Age 3 nearly beat in local currency in 12 days

Is there a website with admissions info for Russia?

Yes, but they are mostly on Russian only.

Here you can find last week
http://www.kinometro.ru/box/show/region/ru/week/0
third column number of copies
4th weekend gross in roubles and USD
5th total gross in roubles and USD
6th average gross per screen
7th column weekend admissions
8th column total admissions

Another one more detailed chart but on Russian only.
http://www.np-anko.ru/box/ (this week)

Many thanks! I prefer admissions numbers and I only knew of http://www.kinobusiness.com/

On the second site you can find also data archive for weekend numbers since 2004 except for some minor distributors.

Great! Do you know by any chance a Brazilian and Belgian b.o. site?

Opening records have gone in these countries...

VENEZULA:

Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - $1,547,891 (112)
Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen - $1,297,480 (or $774,133 3-Day - 42)
Harry Potter 5: OOTP - $1,187,127 (5-day or $776,226 3-Day - 144)
Up - $1,184,736 (or $958,811 3-Day - 89)
Kung Fu Panda - $1,099,896 (or $874,752 3-Day - 97)
Shrek 3 - $1,073,358 (or $890,506 3-Day - 129)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $1,040,859 (or $810,473 3-Day - 87)
Wall-E - $1,012,956 (or $792,591 3-Day - 89)
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian - $922,774 (or $767,641 3-Day - 97)
Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian - $893,928 (82)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $855,009 (or $723,449 3-Day - 72)


BULGARIA:

Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - $494,393 (18)
Star Wars 3: ROTS - $255,934 (20)
Pirates Of The Caribbean 3: At World’s End - $219,183 (24)
300 - $198,299 (14)
Indiana Jones: The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - $197,126 (21)
The Mummy 3: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - $195,473 (22)
Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $180,359 (20) or $228,652 week
Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest - $164,477 (19)


CHILE:

1) Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - $1,435,695 (or $1,381,331 4-Day - 89)
2) The Simpsons Movie - $1,311,933 (43)
3) Star Wars 3: ROTS - $1.3m (38)
4) Harry Potter 5: OOTP - $1,266,963 (or $843,898 4-Day - 41)
5) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - $1.2m (70)
6) Spiderman 3 - $1,145,611 (95)
7) Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest - $1.1m
8) Pirates Of The Caribbean 3: At World’s End - $952,349 (38)
9) Shrek 2 - $876,732 (32)
10) The Da Vinci Code - $876,683 (78)

The Dark Knight - $805,318 (70)
Shrek 3 - $793,432 (43)
Transformers - $788,905 (38)
The Passion Of The Christ - $709,000 (42)
Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $695,808 (5-Day or $514,983 3-Day - 59)
Up - $695,467 (or $688,885 4-Day - 65)
The Matrix: Reloaded - $682,952 (31)
Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen - $674,661 (or $566,091 4-Day - 84)


COLUMBIA:

1) Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - $1,837,047 (or $1,530,396 3-Day - 115)
2) The Simpsons Movie - $1.4m (130)
3) Spiderman 3 - $1,270,618 (170)
4) Shrek 3 - $1.15m
5) Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen - $1,070,045 (or $674,835 3-Day - 121)

Pirates Of The Caribbean 3: At World’s End - $990,462 (125)
Spiderman 2 - $914,047 (or $615,006 without p/v - 101)
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - $911,300 (120)
Indiana Jones: The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - $861,344 (or $726,054 3-Day - 108)
Transformers - $834,526 (84)
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian - $829,644 (118)
Superman Returns - $809,600 (96)
The Da Vinci Code - $802,673 (115)
Mulan - $780,000 (75)
Up - $754,078 (165)

5 day OW in Poland was 489k adm.
After 12 days it at 1.013m adm.

If it will keep this pace then I can see another 2m adm. animation movie this year after Madagascar 2.

Foreign total as of July 15th is $362,355,801.

So basically it did around 35 million from monday-wednesday. Its total till July 14th was around $351M meaning it did around $11M on wednesday against potter.

In Germany, Ice Age 3 is heading for around 750,000 admissions this weekend (Potter obviously hit it HARD). That'd put it at around 5.2-5.4 million admissions by the end of the weekend. 7 million is certainly happening.

It grossed more in its first week in China than Ice Age 2 grossed in total: 37.5m yuan ($5.5m), Should break 100m yuan and make over $15m.

IA3 had a major comeback on Saturday and now it looks like that 3rd weekend with 1m admissions will be the 8th best third weekend of all-time. New total should be 5.6m by Sunday...

According to BOM, IA3 is at $429,062,000. That is around 107M over last 7 days. Just out of this world. It looks like coasting past 500M and even 550M.

Foreign Total as of Jul. 19, 2009 $429,062,000.

Foreign total till Jul 15 was $362,355,301.

It did $66.71m 4-day i.e. including thursday's foreign gross. I say this movie has a shot at 550M!