More overseas numbers:

Salt - $166,991,182
Resident Evil: Afterlife - $154,094,283 (way up from the estimates)
Knight & Day - $152,863,266
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - $64,650,000

"In another listless weekend on the foreign theatrical circuit, Constantin Film's "Resident Evil: Afterlife" in 3D eked out its fourth consecutive round as the No. 1 overseas title, grossing $15 million from some 3,900 venues in 47 markets.

The latest in the scifi-horror franchise is currently scoring solid numbers in Latin and South America -- it was No. 1 in Mexico and Chile -- and its weekend box office pushed the Milla Jovovich vehicle's foreign gross past the $180 million mark (cume, $181.2 million) accumulated since its Sept. 10 offshore opening.

The weekend action overall typified the current between-the-seasons box office lull. That will change next month when several potential blockbusters -- including Warner's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" -- begin offshore rollouts.

No. 2 for the second straight round, Sony's "Eat Pray Love" is picking up steam overseas, garnering $13.4 million from 3,450 screens in 32 markets. The romantic drama starring Julia Roberts opened No. 1 in Brazil, Taiwan and Portugal, and has grossed $39.5 million foreign so far. Openings in Australia, Belgium, Greece and Russia are due this week.

Propelled by first-place openings in Germany, Austria, Sweden, South Africa and German-speaking Switzerland, "Despicable Me" collected $12.4 million from 2,546 sites in 43 markets for an overseas cume of $114.9 million. It finished No. 3 on the weekend.

The animated 3D family film voiced principally by Steve Carell took 32% of the German weekend market, said distributor Universal, with a gross of $5.5 million (including previews) from 684 venues. Openings in Denmark, France and Spain are on tap this week.

Fourth is director Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," which introduced itself in 14 markets in its second round on the foreign circuit, generating an overall weekend tally of $10.1 million from 2,740 screens in 55 territories. A No. 1 opening was logged in Finland while the biggest territory was France where the 20th Century Fox release starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko pulled $2.07 million from 410 spots, enough for a No. 2 market ranking and a No. 1 finish in the Paris and suburbs area.

Opening with force in Russia ($2.3 million from 668 screens) and Australia ($1.65 million from 347 locations), Warner Bros.' "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" delivered an overall weekend gross of $8.3 million from 2,700 screens in 21 territories. Very early cume for director Zack Snyder's animation fantasy stands at $9.9 million. It ranks No. 5 on the weekend. Mexico opens this week.

"Inception" from Warner's pushed its foreign gross total past the $500-million mark thanks to a $8.2 million weekend at 4,465 screens in 57 markets. Director Christopher Nolan's scifi-thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio has realized an estimated $54.7 million from the China market alone, said Warner Bros.

Bolstered by a No. 1 ranking in its third weekend in the U.K. ($1.5 million from 435 spots) plus first place openings in Hungary and the Ukraine, Sony's "The Other Guys" gathered an overall weekend take of $4.9 million from 1,410 screens in 31 markets. The cop comedy costarring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg pushed its foreign cume to $22.2 million since opening offshore on Aug. 5.

Despite its blisteringly downbeat reviews in the U.S., "The Last Airbender," director M. Night Shyamalan's 3D thriller from Paramount, has grossed a total of $176.4 million so far overseas. The latest weekend tallied $4.5 million from 2,000 locations in 60 markets.

Warner Bros.' "The Town," the Boston heist drama from director-actor Ben Affleck, grabbed the No. 2 spot in its second U.K. weekend, and pulled $4.3 million on the weekend overall from 991 spots in eight markets for an early cume of $13.2 million. France cume stands at $5.7 million over three rounds.

Fox's "Vampires Suck" drew $3.77 million on the weekend from 1,603 screens in a dozen territories, hoisting its overseas cume to $27.8 million. A No. 1 Spain debut generated $1.7 million from 325 screens. The horror movie spoof will open in five markets this week including Belgium.

Adam Sandler comedies have a way of breaking the $100-million gross mark overseas, and his latest release from Sony should be no exception to the rule. "Grown Ups" has logged $98.7 million so far thanks to a $3.6 million weekend at 1,570 locales in 49 markets.

Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" drove its international cume to $148.3 million thanks to a $3.1 million weekend at 2,486 screens in 26 markets. Globally the Jerry Bruckheimer live-action title starring Nicolas Cage has realized $211 million.

The weekend reinforced "Toy Story 3's" standing as the industry's biggest animation hit ever to the tune of $2.3 million drawn from 2,153 locations in 24 markets. Overseas cume for the Pixar/Disney title in 3D stands at $642.7 million while the global take so far is $1.054 billion.

Opening to warm reviews in the U.K., as per distributor Paramount, was "Made in Dagenham," director Nigel Cole's drama costarring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Miranda Richardson about a 1968 strike at a British car plant. Debut take was $1.1 million from 354 locales. Fox's Bollywood comedy "Khichdi, the Movie," opened No. 3 in India with $1.04 million derived from 410 sites.

Other international cumes: Universal's "The Devil," $9.5 million (thanks to a $1.8 million weekend at 934 sites in 13 markets); Fox's "Marmaduke," $47.7 million; Touchstone/Disney's "You Again," $2.5 million from Russia only; Fox's "Predators," $74.3 million; Focus Features/Universal's "The American," estimated $14 million; Weinstein Co.'s "Piranha 3D," estimated $42 million; Universal's "Charlie St. Cloud," $4.2 million; Universal's "Back to the Future," re-released at 277 digital locations in the U.K. and Ireland for $700,000; Fox's "Knight and Day," $154.1 million; Lionsgate's "The Switch," estimated $12.2 million; Fox's "The A-Team," $100.3 million; DreamWorks/Paramount's "Dinner For Schmucks," $8.6 million (thanks to a $2 million weekend at 648 spots in 17 markets); and Fox's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," $8.5 million. "

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Dam its been 3 weeks without an Expendables update. For christ sake, its probably close to 265 WW now with Japan still to come.

It died quickly in most of markets. At very best it made like 10 mln since last update.

superb for Inception !!!

Updated international grosses:


Resident Evil: Afterlife - $182,892,544
The Karate Kid - $179,826,111
The Last Airbender - $176,551,318
Salt - $169,413,272
Knight & Day - $153,197,275
The A-Team - $99,399,856
A Nightmare on Elm Street - $51,035,979
Get Him to the Greek - $29,032,953

"After drawing relatively tame box office for nearly two months on the foreign theatrical circuit, Sony's "Eat Pray Love" emerged center stage over the weekend, claiming the No. 1 spot with a $17.4 million gross collected from 4,280 screens in 56 markets.

Director Ryan Murphy's romantic drama has rolled up a box office total of $64.1 million since it opened overseas on Aug. 12, and is rapidly closing the gap between its domestic cume of more than $80 million. The Julia Roberts vehicle was sparked by seven No. 1 market openings on the weekend, the best of which was Australia ($3.57 million at 328 locations).

While overall overseas action is generally anemic this time of year, the six major Hollywood studios are collectively surging to a foreign box office record in 2010.

According to studio figures, the six majors have realized January-September overseas box office of $9.85 billion, an increase of nearly 35% over 2009's nine-month total for the companies. (In calendar year 2009, the studios collectively logged a record $10.7 billion in offshore box office.)

Twentieth Century Fox and Disney have grossed more than $2 billion overseas so far this year, and Warner Bros. International will do so before the end of December thanks to its release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" beginning in mid-November.

Paramount and Sony have already exceeded the $1-billion foreign box office mark while Universal expects to do so by mid-November.

Sony exceeded the $1-billion benchmark on Oct. 1. The company logged $1.030 billion through Oct. 3 on the strength of a muscular September on the foreign circuit -- $305 million in box office for the month, the best showing among the big six. (September action raised the company's nine-month box office total to $995.7 million.)

Top studio so far this year is 20th Century Fox, which tallied January-September box office of $2.42 billion, of which $96.3 million was logged in September. Other studios' respective nine-month totals and September returns: Disney, $2.060 billion and $99.4 million; Warner Bros., $1.9 billion and $175 million; Paramount, $1.592 billion and $83.6 million; and Universal, $882.1 million and $69.4 million.

Meanwhile, Sony oversaw weekend overseas openings of "The Social Network," director David Fincher's drama about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, at 452 locations in seven markets for $3.2 million, averaging slightly more than $7,000 per screen. Warner Bros. weighed in with "Life As We Know It" in the U.K., where the romantic comedy costarring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel opened at No. 2 with an estimated $1.6 million at 397 locations.

No. 2 on the weekend overall was Universal's "Despicable Me," which garnered $16.6 million from 3,500 venues in 35 territories, hoisting its overseas cume to $135.5 million. The family-oriented 3D animation title voiced principally by Steve Carell claimed the top spots in France ($5.3 million from 655 sites) and in Spain ($3.1 million from 575).

No. 3 was Warner's "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole," which opened in first place in Mexico and drew $11.3 million overall on the weekend from 4,500 situations in 35 markets. Cume for director Zack Snyder's animation fantasy stands at $25.8 million.

Fourth was director Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," which collected $10.28 million from 3,526 spots in 58 markets, pushing its overseas cume to $37.1 million. Top market was the U.K., where the Michael Douglas vehicle took the No. 1 spot with $2.87 million from 438 locations.

Constantin Film's "Resident Evil: Afterlife," which had occupied the No. 1 spot for several rounds, slipped to fifth position with a weekend tally of $8 million, nudging its foreign cume to nearly $200 million (actual total, $198.7 million) collected since opening offshore on Sept. 10. Sony, which is handling the Milla Jovovich action vehicle at 2,640 screens in 45 markets, provided $4.5 million of the weekend total.

Resurfacing on the foreign circuit with Japan and Italy openings was Fox's "Knight and Day," which grossed $7.26 million from a combined 1,002 locations. The action comedy costarring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz took the No. 1 spot in Japan -- where Cruise films are generally popular -- with a mighty $5.97 million drawn from 589 situations. Overseas cume stands at $161.6 million.

Remaining No. 1 in Italy was director Luca Miniero's comedy "Benvenuti Al Sud" (Welcome to the South), a re-doing of the French hit "Welcome to the Sticks." Second round for the Medusa Film release was an estimated $4.5 million from 472 locations for a market cume of $13.2 million. Warner's "The Town" from director-actor Ben Affleck generated $4 million from 1,300 screens in 12 markets for a cume of $18.8 million.

Sony's cop comedy, "The Other Guys," costarring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, raised its foreign cume to $28.1 million thanks to a $3.6 million weekend at 1,400 screens in 35 markets. Universal's "Charlie St. Cloud," a drama starring Zac Efron, opened No. 3 in the U.K. and grabbed a weekend total of $3.2 million from 1,568 sites in 23 markets. Overseas cume stands at $8 million.

Sony says "Grown Ups" is now Adam Sandler's best grossing title overseas after his latest comedy drew $2.3 million from 1,245 spots in 45 markets, pushing its foreign gross total to $102.3 million. Fox's horror spoof "Vampires Suck" drew $2.36 million on the weekend from 1,299 situations in 16 markets for a cume of $30.8 million.

Other international cumes: Disney's "Toy Story 3," $644.4 million; Fox's "Avatar: Special Edition," $2.018 billion; DreamWorks/Paramount's "Dinner for Schmucks," $11 million; Fox's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," $10.3 million; Paramount's "The Last Airbender," $180.5 million (after a $2.2 million weekend at 1,346 locations in 60 territories); Mars Distribution's "Des homes et des dieux," (Of Gods and Men), $16.7 million over five rounds in France only; and Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," $149.9 million.

Also, Warner's "Inception," $515 million; Paramount's "Made in Dagenham," $3 million in the U.K. only; Universal's "Back to the Future" (reissue), $1.5 million in the U.K. only; Lionsgate's "The Switch," estimated $12.8 million; Fox's "Nosso Lar," $19.25 million over six rounds in Brazil only; Universal's "Devil," $11.2 million; Lionsgate's "Alpha & Omega," estimated $4.8 million; and Paramount's "Tomorrow When the War Began," $12.8 million in Australia and New Zealand.

Final international cumes: Fox's "Date Night," $54 million; Fox's "Fantastic Mr. Fox," $25.5 million; and Fox's "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief," $138.5 million. "

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"Riding a wave of school holidays overseas, "Despicable Me" emerged No. 1 on the foreign theatrical circuit over the weekend, generating $25.7 million at 4,900 screens in 54 markets and raising its offshore gross total to $168.6 million.

Although the Universal release has been playing the foreign circuit for the last 15 weeks, the family-oriented 3D animation title voiced principally by Steve Carell is just now hitting full stride offshore due to its graduated rollout calibrated to school breaks among other factors.

Weekend openings in nine territories were strong, said Universal. "Reactions and word-of-mouth are positive, and school holidays are underway in most of these countries. So we are looking at long runs."

Nearly half the weekend tally came from the all-important U.K. market and from Italy. "Despicable" was No. 1 in the U.K. with a commanding $6.2 million drawn from 522 locations, Universal's second-biggest market opening of 2010. A No. 2 Italy opening generated $4.3 million from 490 sites.

Holdovers included a No. 1 ranking for the third straight frame in Germany ($3.8 million in the third round at 766 sites for an 18-day market cume of $16.2 million). In France, the No. 3 weekend tallied $4.4 million from 655 locations for a 12-day total of $10.8 million. Spain provided a No. 1 ranking with $2.3 million from 575 venues for a 10-day total of $8.2 million.

"Despicable Me" passed the $400 million global gross benchmark Saturday. Overseas, the film has 10 more markets yet to play including Portugal, which opens this week, and Belgium and Japan, which open the following round.

Finishing second was the prior weekend No. 1 title, Sony's "Eat Pray Love." This time the romantic drama starring Julia Roberts drew $13.3 million from 4,075 locations in 67 territories, hoisting its foreign gross total to $86.8 million. No. 1 openings in Indonesia and New Zealand augmented a solid first-place second round in Australia ($2.1 million from 330 sites for a market cume of $7 million).

Third on the weekend was Sony's "The Social Network," which opened in at least five European territories including the U.K. (where it ranked No. 2 with $3.86 million derived from 439 spots), France (also No. 2 with $3.6 million taken from 351 screens) and Spain (No. 2 with $1.7 million drawn from 352 locations). Director David Fincher's drama starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has grossed $17.3 million so far overseas.

Fourth was Warner Bros' "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole," which drew $9.5 million from some 4,600 screens in 46 territories. Cume for director Zack Snyder's animation fantasy stands at $41.6 million. A second weekend No. 1 finish in Mexico yielded $1.3 million from more than 900 venues.

No. 5 was director Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," which grossed $7.27 million from 4,012 screens in 60 markets. The sequel starring Michael Douglas as financial miscreant Gordon Gekko opened No. 1 in China ($2.24 million, as per distributor 20th Century Fox, from 1,200 screens). Overseas cume stands at $49.4 million.

"Resident Evil: Afterlife," via Sony and other distributors grossed $5.8 million. Sony's portion of the action was $4.3 million from 1,495 screens in 44 territories. Constantin Film's sci-fi/fantasy starring Milla Jovovich as a video game heroine has grossed $207.4 million so far overseas.

Also coming in at $5.8 million on the weekend, from about 1,600 screens, was Warner's "The Town," from director-star Ben Affleck. The Boston-area heist drama's international cume stands at $26.3 million. An Australia opening generated $2 million from 262 sites.

Still reigning No. 1 in Italy was "Benvenuti Al Sud" ("Welcome to the South"), director Luca Miniero's interpretation of the smash French comedy, "Welcome to the Sticks." Third weekend at some 430 sites generated an estimated $4.6 million for a market cume of about $24 million.

Sony's copy caper "The Other Guys," starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, pushed its overseas cume to $33.8 million thanks to a $4.3 million weekend at 1,425 screens in 37 markets. Also yielding $4.3 million was Warner's romantic comedy "Life As We Know It" starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, which played some 1,500 screens including openings in Russia, Mexico, Holland and Brazil. Early foreign cume stands at $7.1 million.

Fox's "Knight and Day" with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz scored a solid second round in Japan ($2.5 million from 590 spots for a market cume of $14.1 million), and drew $3.28 million overall on the weekend from 946 screens in Japan and Italy. Overseas cume for the action comedy stands at $171.5 million.

Taking the weekend's No. 1 spot in France was director-scripter Luc Besson's "Arthur et la guerre des deux mondes" ("Arthur and the Two World Wars") distributed by Europa Corp. Distribution. The English-language animation, third installment of the "Arthur and the Minimoys" series, is voiced principally by Mia Farrow and Freddie Highmore. It drew an estimated $5.5 million in the opening round at 700 situations.

No. 4 in France was UGC Distribution's release of director Giles Paquet-Brenner's drama, "Elle s'appelait Sarah" ("She was Called Sarah"), starring Kristen Scott Thomas as a journalist investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl in 1942. Opening round at 400 screens generated an estimated $2.3 million.

Other international cumes: Warner's "Inception," $521.7 million; Fox's "Vampires Suck," $36 million; Pixar/Disney's "Toy Story 3," $645.3 million (eighth biggest titled ever released overseas); Paramount's "The Last Airbender," $183.3 million; Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," $151.1 million; Universal's "Charlie St. Cloud," $10.7 million (after a $1.6 million weekend at 1,166 screens in 16 markets); Touchstone/Disney's "You Again," $3.3 million; Universal's "Devil," $12.3 million; DreamWorks/Paramount's "Dinner For Schmucks," $11.9 million; and Universal's "Senna," $560,000 over 10 days in Japan only.

Also, Sony's "Grown Ups," $105.5 million (after a $1.6 million weekend at 830 screens in 41 markets); Fox's "Avatar: Special Edition" $2.020 billion); Lionsgate's "Alpha and Omega," estimated $5 million; Fox's "Predators," $75 million; Mars Distribution's "Des homes et des dieux" (Of Gods and Men), $19.4 million over six rounds in France only; Lionsgate's "The Switch," estimated $14 million; and Fox's "Nosso Lar," $20 million in Brazil only.

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"Halloween got a jump on the foreign theatrical circuit over the weekend as Paranormal Activity 2 claimed the No. 1 box office spot by scaring $22.1 million out of audiences at 2,913 screens in 21 offshore markets.

Director Tod Williams' sequel to 2009's Paranormal Activity, which reportedly grossed more than $92 million overseas, premiered No. 1 in at least four key markets, notably in the U.K., where the weekend tally was $6.3 million from 392 locations -- which distributor Paramount Pictures said outperformed the opening market tally of the horror original by as much as 103%.

Paranormal 2, which also opened No. 1 on the weekend in the U.S. and Canada, drew first-place rankings in Australia ($2.7 million from 179 spots), Mexico ($1.9 million from 450 screens) and Russia ($1.8 million from 360 locations).

Paramount also said the sequel outdrew the opening box office of the original -- directed by Oren Peli, who co-produced and co-scripted Paranormal 2 -- in France ($2.5 million from 199 spots, ranking No. 2), Korea and Spain.

The sequel to the box office phenomenon -- produced for a reported $10,000 and grossing domestically more than 10 times that figure -- continues its rollout offshore over the coming weeks with openings in some 30 foreign markets.

No. 2 on the weekend was Universal's Despicable Me, which had been the foreign circuit's top grosser in the prior stanza. After 16 weeks of overseas playtime, the family-oriented 3D animation title voiced principally by Steve Carell has grossed a total of $198.1 million.

Universal -- which reported its 2010 international box office total exceeded $1 billion on Sunday -- said it expects Despicable to surpass the $200 million offshore gross mark on Monday.

The film's weekend gross was $19.8 million from 4,800 situations in 39 territories. It opened No. 1 in Portugal, Czech Republic, Latvia and Slovakia, with the U.K. as the top holdover market ($4.3 million from 520 venues for a 10-day total of $12.2 million). Despicable has openings in five territories on tap this week, including Japan and Belgium.

Opening No. 1 in Sweden, Norway and the Ukraine was the weekend's No. 3 title, Sony's The Social Network, which grossed $10 million at 2,110 screens in 25 markets. Overseas cume for director David Fincher's drama starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stands at $32.2 million.

Fourth was Le Petits Mouchoirs (Little White Lies), the weekend's dominant No. 1 opener in France, grossing an estimated $9.9 million from 750 locations. The EuropaCorp. Distribution release, directed by Guillaume Canet and costarring Marion Cotillard and Francois Cluzet, played the recent Toronto International Film Festival, and is being hailed as a French variation of The Big Chill, director Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 title.

No. 5 was director Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which drew $9.5 million on the weekend from 4,309 sites in 53 markets. Offshore gross total for the Michael Douglas-as-Gordon Gekko vehicle from 20th Century Fox totals $62.18 million.

Warner Bros.' romantic comedy Life As We Know It, costarring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, drew $8.3 million from about 2,500 screens in 22 markets, with a No. 4 Germany opening yielding $2 million from 403 screens. Overseas cume stands at $17.8 million.

With unspectacular openings in the U.K. and Spain, Warner's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole drew $8.1 million on the weekend at a total of about 5,000 screens in 51 markets. Overseas gross total for director Zack Snyder's animation fantasy stands at $53 million. Openings in France, Korea and Italy are due this week.

Crossing the $100-million overseas gross mark was Sony's Eat Pray Love, which has collected $100.2 million since opening on the foreign circuit on Aug. 12. Latest weekend box office tally for the romantic drama starring Julia Roberts was $7.8 million from 3,320 screens in 67 markets.

Summit International's RED drew an estimated $7.1 million on the weekend from 1,804 situations in 19 markets, with a No. 3 opening in the U.K. looming ($2.7 million from 403 sites). Early cume for the action title -- costarring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as retired spies back in action -- stands at $15.3 million after two rounds. Openings in 10 territories, including Germany and Australia, are due this week.

Director-actor Ben Affleck's heist vehicle, The Town, drew $5.4 million from 1,900 screens in 31 markets, lifting its overseas cume to $34.1 million. Brazilian-made action title Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2) grabbed an estimated $4.7 million from some 300 screens in Brazil only, lifting its market cume to about $33 million over three stanzas.

No. 3 in France was director Luc Besson's Arthur 3: La Guerre des Deux Mondes (Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds), which collected an estimated $3.9 million from 778 locations and a market cume of $10.2 million over two frames. Constantin Film's "Resident Evil: Afterlife" pushed its foreign gross total to $213.5 million via Sony and other distributors thanks to a weekend gross of $3.1 million.

Sony's cop comedy "The Other Guys" laughed all the way to $2.4 million from 1,355 screens in 40 markets; cume is $37.5 million. Japan is Tom Cruise country and Fox's Knight and Day, the action comedy with Cruise and Cameron Diaz, maintains a strong No. 2 spot in that market ($2.14 million from 578 sites) for a weekend total of $2.3 million from 697 screens in Japan and Italy. Knight and Day's cume totals $176.47 million.

Other international cumes: Warner's Inception, $524.5 million; Sony's Easy A, $5.6 million; Fox's Avatar: Special Edition, $2.021 billion; Summit/Universal/Disney's Step Up 3D, $119 million; Mars Distribution's Des Homes et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men), $21.2 million over seven rounds in France only; Universal's Charlie St. Cloud, $12 million; Fox's Ramona and Beezus, $424,799 in U.K. only; Pixar/Disney's Toy Story 3, $646.1 million, the eighth most popular release overseas ever; Fox's Vampires Suck, $38.2 million; and Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, $151.6 million.

Also, Touchstone/Disney's You Again, $3.6 million; Universal's Devil, $12.6 million; DreamWorks/Paramount's Dinner for Schmucks, $12.6 million; Universal's Senna, $830,000 in Japan only; Lionsgate's The Switch, $14.4 million; Paramount's The Last Airbender, $184.5 million; and Lionsgate's Alpha and Omega, $5.2 million."

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In Great Britain, the only foreign territory where Lionsgate is distributing the movie, "Saw 3D" set a new franchise record. It opened to $5.3 million, 30% better than the previous best British debut for the series, 2006's "Saw III

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"Family-oriented animation trumped horror on the foreign circuit over the Halloween weekend as Despicable Me reclaimed the No. 1 box office spot, snaring $21.8 million from 4,546 venues in 44 markets and pushing its offshore gross total to $234.4 million.

The 3D title voiced principally by Steve Carell was the top title overseas two weekends ago, before being edged out of the No. 1 spot last round by Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2, which finished in third place this time. School holidays in key markets significantly benefited Despicable Me.

What put the animated title back on top was a No. 2 opening in Japan ($3.1 million from 225 spots) plus a No. 1 Belgium bow ($1.1 million from 125 venues for a per-screen average of $8,800). Backstopping was a No. 2 holdover round in the U.K. ($4.1 million from at 549 locations) plus a powerful fourth round hold in France where the weekend produced $5.2 million from 659 sites, an increase of 64% from the prior stanza thanks to increase school holidays business.

The weekend's other Halloween-timed entry, Saw 3D, opened day-and-date with its No. 1 domestic debut, drawin an estimated $11.5 million from an unspecified number of screens in some 25 territories. That was sufficient for a No. 4 spot on the foreign circuit.

In the U.K., Saw 3D premiered No. 1 at 382 screens for a tally of $5.77 million. The record weekend action, said Lionsgate -- which is distributing the seventh installment in the lucrative horror franchise overseas along with other regional distributors – was 30% bigger than any other market opening of a Saw title.

Among the weekend's newcomers to the foreign circuit was DreamWorks Animation's Megamind, which opened a week before its U.S. and Canada bow in Russia and Ukraine, two markets where piracy is a big concern. The comedy/fantasy, voiced by Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey among others, premiered No. 1 in each territory for a total of $7.28 million from 1,038 locales.

Paramount also opened Jackass 3D at 452 venues in six markets for a weekend total of $4.55 million. No. 1 debuts for the docu-action-comedy costarring Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O were recorded in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands with opening grosses in each territory exceeding those registered by each of the two previous Jackass films.

In Japan, the reigning No. 1 opener was Fuji TV/Toho's Security Police: The Motion Picture, which bowed at 394 locations for a muscular $6.58 million. The police drama directed by Takafumi Hatano costars Japanese pop star Junichi Okada.

In Spain, Universal opened Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) produced by Guillermo de Toro and directed by Guillen Morales. The horror thriller about a young woman going blind while investigating the murder of her twin sister finished No. 1 in the market with $2.1 million drawn from 365 screens.

Racking up a weekend tally of $14 million (from 2,990 situations in 50 territories) was Sony's The Social Network, which is No. 2 on the weekend. Openings in more than 20 markets were highlighted by No. 1 introductions in Australia ($2.7 million drawn from 284 screens), Singapore and Israel. A No. 2 Russia debut generated $1.65 million from 274 locales.

Since opening on the foreign circuit on Sept. 30, director David Fincher's drama starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has grossed a total of $51 million.

Meanwhile, Paranormal Activity 2 dipped 43% from its No. 1 opening round last stanza to $12.5 million from 2,481 sites in 25 markets and the weekend's No. 3 spot. Openings in six territories were outpaced by holdovers in the U.K. ($3 million from 393 spots; market cume $13.3 million) and in Mexico (No. 1 with $1.56 million drawn from 436 locations; market cume $4.4 million). Overseas gross total for the horror sequel over two rounds stands at $44.9 million.

No. 1 in France and fifth on the weekend overall was Let Petits Muchoirs (Little White Lies), which collected an estimated $9.4 million in its second round at 555 locations -- an increase of 10% from the opening weekend. The EuropaCorp. Distribution release, a French variation starring Marion Cotillard of the 1983 American title The Big Chill, has racked up $20.7 million since opening in France on Oct. 20.

Warner Bros.' Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole also drew $8.9 million from some 4,625 screens in 58 markets. A France opening propelled by school holidays provided $2.6 million (including sneak previews) from 519 locales. Cume for director Zack Snyder's animation fantasy is $66.1 million.

Summit Int'l.'s RED bagged $8.8 million from 2,314 locations in 27 territories. No. 2 openings in Germany and Austria produced a total of $3.8 million from 739 spots. Foreign cume for the spy action vehicle costarring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren stands at $27.6 million after three weekends.

No. 2 in France and another big beneficiary of school holidays was producer-director Luc Besson's Arthur 3: La Guerre des Deux Mondes (Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds), an English-language animation title which grossed an estimated $8.2 million in its third weekend at 778 situations -- an increase of 120% from the prior weekend's take. Market cume stands at $20.5 million.

The Town, Warner's bank heist drama starring Ben Affleck, grossed $6.1 million from 2,240 screens in 40 territories, pushing its overseas take to $42.6 million. Romantic comedy Life As We Know It costarring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel picked up $6 million from 2,110 screens in 27 markets. The Warner's release has grossed $27.1 million so far overseas.

Eat Pray Love, Sony's romantic drama starring Julia Roberts, grossed $4.9 million from 2,830 screens in 70 territories for an overseas cume of $108.8 million. Fox's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps pushed its foreign cume to $70 million thanks to a $4.5 million weekend at 3,526 screens in 48 markets.

Opening No. 4 in France was Gaumont's Il Reste du Jambon (The Rest of the Ham), director Anne Depetrini's romantic comedy about a French TV reporter and an Arabic surgeon. Weekend generated an estimated $4.1 million from 450 situations.

Other international cumes: Sony Animation's Open Season 3, $4.1 million since Oct. 21; Pixar/Disney's Toy Story 3, $646.8 million (eight biggest title ever released overseas); Sony's Easy A, $7.2 million; The Weinstein Co.'s Piranha 3D, $52.3 million; Fox's The A-Team, $100.4 million; Lionsgate's Alpha and Omega, estimated $8 million; Sony and other distributors' Resident Evil: Afterlife, $216.9 million; Universal's Charlie St. Cloud, $12.9 million; and Fox's Vampire's Suck, $40 million.

Also, Warner's Inception, $527.1 million; Sony's The Other Guys, $41.6 million (after a $3.3 million weekend at 1,198 screens in 39 markets); Fox's Knight and Day, $181 million; Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, $152 million; Universal's Senna, $968,547 for this docu over four weeks in Japan only; Paramount's The Last Airbender, $185.3 million; Touchstone/Disney's You Again, $4 million; Focus Features/Universal's The Kids Are All Right, $658,570 opener at 205 screens in U.K. only; and Sony's Salt, $173.2 million.

And, Fox's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $11.4 million; DreamWorks/Paramount's Dinner For Schmucks, $12.9 million; Universal's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, $14.4 million; Paramount's Extreme Happiness, $389,974 in Brazil only; Universal's Devil, $13 million; Focus Features/Universal's The American, $19.9 million; Paramount's Made in Dagenham, $5.7 million in three markets; Fuji TV/Toho's Umizaru 3: The Last Message, $91.8 million in Japan only; Focus Features' Biutiful, $2.5 million in Mexico only; and Universal's 13, $1.45 million in Russia only."

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"Time to rewrite the foreign box office record book -- a bit earlier than expected.
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Hollywood's six major studios nailed down an annual box office high by weekend's end with nearly two months of overseas playtime left on the 2010 calendar.

The new yearly record was reached despite a seasonally so-so weekend stanza overall, which saw director Todd Phillips' comedy Due Date costarring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis take the No. 1 spot on the foreign circuit with $21.5 million collected from some 4,000 screens in 36 markets. (Distributor Warner Bros. said the overseas Due Date opening tally was almost identical to that registered by The Hangover in the same markets. Phillips' 2009 hit comedy went on to gross $191.6 million on the foreign circuit.)

From January through October, the studios -- 20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony and Universal -- collectively grossed offshore box office of $10.661 billion, according to studio figures, from all territories outside of the U.S. and Canada.

That was an increase of 30% over last year's comparable 10-month period, and only $39 million shy of calendar 2009's record foreign box office of $10.7 billion. The $39-million box office gap was collectively erased by the majors in the Nov. 1 through Sunday period.

And, with several big tentpoles in the wings – including Warner Bro.'s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, which rolls out Nov. 19, and Disney's Tron Legacy, due in December – calendar 2010's total foreign box office will be significantly higher than the previous 2009 record. (Just in October, a slow month overall, the majors collectively grossed $819 million overseas.)

Fox is leading the six studios with a 10-month box office return of $2.544 billion, of which $121.2 million was grossed offshore just in the month of October. The year-to-date tally, a Fox International record, is 43% higher than the company's take in the January through October period of 2009.

Disney is second with $2.084 billion January through October, of which only $23.8 million was grossed last month. Vying to wrest second place from Disney this year is Warner Bro.'s, which registered $2.080 billion in 10 months, $192 million in October. Paramount weighed in with $1.688 billion over 10 months and $92.7 million in October.

Sony was the leading distributor of the big six in October with a monthly gross of $228.6 million while logging $1.222 billion since January. Universal also had a strong October, registered $161 million. The studio passed the $1-billion overseas gross mark last month, logging $1.043 billion in the January through October period.

Meanwhile, Due Date premiered No. 1 in the U.K. ($3.8 million from 450 sites), Germany ($3.6 million including previews from 519 spots) and No. 2 in Russia (an estimated $3.8 million from 543 screens). A France opening is due Wednesday.

Summit Int'l.'s Fair Game, the screen interpretation costarring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn of the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case, played in six markets for $1.9 million from 412 screens. Early international cume stands at $3.2 million.

Second on the weekend was Paramount's Jackass 3D, the docu-action comedy which drew $12.5 million from 1,482 venues in just 14 markets. In only 10 days, the third Jackass title has already out-grossed its two predecessors. Overseas cume stands at $18.8 million.

No. 3 was Despicable Me, Universal's family-oriented animation in 3D, which grossed $11.8 million from 4,300 locations in 45 territories, pushing its foreign cume to $256.2 million and $504.5 million worldwide. Fourth was Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2, which opened No. 2 in Germany ($2.1 million from 519 spots) and generated $11.6 million overall from 3,490 sites in 37 markets. Overseas cume stands at $66 million.

Holding at No. 5 on the weekend was Summit's RED, the spy saga costarring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren, which grossed $9.5 million from 2,380 screens in 37 territories, pushing its overseas cume after four rounds on the foreign circuit to $42.6 million.

Sony's release of director David Fincher's drama The Social Network hoisted its overseas cume to $66.1 million thanks to a 9.1 million weekend at 3,050 situations in 54 markets. Lionsgate's Saw 3D, the latest in the horror franchise, drew a weekend tally of $8.3 million from 10 territories for an international cume of $26.3 million.

Megamind, DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's 3D comedy-fantasy, which opened No. 1 domestically, finished its second round on the foreign circuit with $8.2 million overall from 1,093 venues in just seven markets for an early overseas cume of $18.6 million. Russia is providing most of the action as a No. 1 second round there generated $5.1 million from 691 locations for a market cume of $14.6 million.

Local-language titles took the top spots in Spain, South Korea and France. Repeating in the No. 1 spot in France was Le Petits Muchoirs (Little White Lies), EuroCorp. Distribution's Big-Chill-style drama starring Marion Cotillard, which in its third round collected an estimated $5.3 million from 600 screens. France cume stands at $28.9 million.

In Korea, CJ Entertainment's serial killer thriller The Unjust finished No. 1 for the second straight weekend with an estimated $3.6 million from some 465 locations. In Spain, the No. 1 film for the second consecutive weekend was Universal's co-production Los Ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes), a horror thriller drawing $1.7 million from 360 screens and a 15-day market cume of $5 million.

EuroCorp. Distribution released France's No. 2 title, director Eric Lartigau's L'hommes qui Voulait Vivre sa Vie (The Man Who Wanted to Live His Life), a drama about a Paris lawyer and his cheating wife. Opening round drew an estimated $3.3 million from 500 sites.

No. 3 in France was director Bertrand Tavernier's La Princesse de Montpensier (The Princess of Montpensier), a costume drama set in the 16th century about the romantic trials of an aristocratic young woman. The film, which played in competition at Cannes this year, opened to an estimated $1.8 million at 500 situations.

Other international cumes: Warner's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, $74.5 million after a $4.2 million weekend at 4,000 sites in 55 markets; Sony's Eat Pray Love, $115 million after a $3.2 million weekend at 2,393 screens in 69 markets; Universal's Devil, $13.9 million; Pixar/Disney's Toy Story 3, $647.7 million; EuroCorp. Distribution's Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds, $22 million over four rounds in France only; Universal's The Kids Are Alright, $1.6 million in 10 days in the U.K. and Ireland; Summit's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, $394 million after a $1.2 million opener in Japan at 296 screens.

Also, Warner's Life As We Know It, $34 million after a $3.9 million weekend from 2,000 screens in 30 territories; Fox's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, $75 million after a $2.1 million weekend at 1,850 screens in 27 markets; Gaumont's Il Reste du Jambon, $5.1 million in two rounds in France only; Fox's Knight and Day, $183.7 million; Warner's The Town, $49.3 million after a $3.5 million weekend at 1,700 sites in 40 markets; Touchstone/Disney's You Again, $4.9 million; Sony's The Other Guys, $44.6 million; Fox's Vampires Suck, $41.6 million; and Universal's Senna, $1.1 million in 31 days in Japan only."

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"The 20th Century Fox film Unstoppable narrowly lived up to its billing on the foreign circuit as director Tony Scott's action vehicle barely edged out the Warner Bro.'s comedy Due Date for the No. 1 overseas box office spot, grossing $18.2 million on the weekend from 3,191 screens.

Starring Denzel Washington in his fifth film directed by Scott, the runaway train thriller costarring Chris Pine opened in 40 foreign markets, drawing $5.3 million less in box office than its No. 2 U.S. and Canada debut.

Unstoppable premiered strongly in Asia. The No. 1 China tally was $4.4 million from 1,200 screens, said Fox. The film also ranked No. 1 in its Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong bows. Top European markets were France (No. 4 with $2.55 million from 430 locations), Spain ($1.5 million at 334 screens) and Germany (No. 2 with $1.39 million from 504 spots).

Finishing a close second on the weekend, Due Date grossed an estimated $17.4 million from some 2,300 screens in 40 territories. Director Todd Phillips' comedy costarring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis scored a No. 3 France opening, generating $3.45 million from 388 situations. A No. 1 second weekend in the U.K. provided $3.1 million from 562 sites for a market cume of $9.5 million. The running total is $46.9 million.

Opening No. 2 in the U.K. was Momentum's release of Skyline, a scifi-thriller co-directed by brothers Colin and Greg Strause. Debut round at some 385 screens was an estimated $2.2 million. DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's 3D animation title Megamind, which ranked No. 1 domestically, grossed $4 million overseas from 1,108 situations in 11 markets, for a very early foreign cume of $27 million.

Despicable Me came in No. 3 overall thanks to an estimated $9.5 million weekend at some 3,800 venues in 40 markets. Universal's 3D family-oriented animation comedy has grossed $270.6 million since opening offshore 19 weeks ago.

Introducing itself in eight markets and finishing fourth was Paramount's Jackass 3D, which laughed all the way to the bank with $8.3 million from 1,863 locations in 22 territories. The stunt-doc action comedy, the third in the Jackass series, held the No. 1 spot in its second Australia round ($1.9 million from 164 spots, cume $6.7 million) and has generated total overseas box office so far of $31.5 million.

RED, the spy saga costarring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren, chugged along in 42 markets to an estimated $7.5 million from 2,897 screens, enough for a No. 5 ranking. That lifted the Summit Int'l. release to a $52.6 million after five weeks of playing abroad. Openings in four markets, including France, are due this week.

The Social Network, director David Fincher's drama about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, grossed $7.2 million from 2,925 screens in 58 territories, pushing its cume to $76.6 million since opening overseas on Sept. 30.

A dominant No. 1 in France was director Francois Orzon's farce Potiche (Puppet) costarring Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu and Fabrice Luchini. The Mars Distribution release, which has been screened at a handful of European festivals, including Berlin and Venice, has Deneuve playing a small-town housewife who takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness. Opening round at some 600 situations came in at an estimated $6.1 million.

Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2 hoisted its overseas gross total to $74.5 million thanks to a $5.3 million weekend at 2,954 spots in 39 markets. Finishing No. 2 in France was EuroCorp. Distribution's Little White Lies, a drama starring Marion Cotillard, which drew an estimated $5.2 million from 620 spots, pushing its France cume to $35.1 million.

Other international cumes: Warner's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, $80.2 million (after a $4.6 million weekend at some 5,000 screens in 47 markets); Summit's Fair Game, estimated $4.9 million; Fox's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, $76 million; Touchstone/Disney's You Again, $5.5 million; Universal's Devil, $15.2 million; Sony's Eat Pray Love, $118.5 million; Universal's Charlie St. Cloud, $14.2 million; and Pixar/Disney's Toy Story 3, $648 million (worldwide, $1.063 billion).

Also, Fox's Knight and Day, $184.3 million; Sony's The Other Guys, $47.1 million; EuroCorp. Distribution's Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds, $24 million in France only; Lionsgate's The Switch, $16.7 million; EuroCorp. Distribution's The Man Who Wanted to Live His Life, $6.3 million over two rounds in France only; Lionsgate's Alpha and Omega, $14.2 million; Sony's Easy A, $10.2 million; Fox's Vampires Suck, $41.8 million; and Studio Canal's The Princess of Montpensier, $4 million over two rounds in France only."

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Updated overseas totals:

Resident Evil: Afterlife - $217,357,846
Robin Hood - $206,370,018
The Last Airbender - $186,901,861
The Karate Kid - $182,060,397
Salt - $175,017,705
Eat Pray Love - $118,703,235
Grown Ups - $108,816,904
The Town - $48,900,000

"He's back again -- flying high lower down the home stretch on the foreign theatrical circuit, but handily claiming the No. 1 box office perch.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, the seventh installment of the most successful movie franchise in history, grossed $205 million over five days at some 19,000 screens, covering 54 countries comprising 91 markets. Opening launch was the second best of the Harry Potter series both overseas and worldwide.

Deathly Hallows' launch -- begun in France, Belgium and the Netherlands on Wednesday -- propelled the next-to-last Harry Potter title to a $28 million tally in the U.K. from 1,852 screens, which Warners characterizes as the "biggest three-day opening ever" for the market with Saturday's box office action "the biggest single day ever."

Based on the J.K. Rowling novel, directed by David Yates and starring Daniel Radcliffe, the penultimate Harry Potter registered $21.8 million in Germany at 1,450 sites while the Australia bow provided $14.8 million from 610 situations, the market's second biggest all-time opening.

Humongous weekends were also racked up in Japan ($14 million from 885 screens, the market's biggest opening weekend for a Harry Potter picture), Russia ($12.3 million from 1,133 screens, the biggest market opening of the franchise), Italy ($11.5 million from 935 sites), Mexico ($10.2 million from 1,833 screens) and in China (an estimated $9 million from 3,100 sites).

No. 6 in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set a five-day international opening record in July of 2009, grossing $236 million on 15,800 screens in 54 territories. (Prince handily eclipsed the previous franchise record for the top international launch: the $192.9 million accumulated in five days from 44 territories by 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.)

The worldwide opening tally for Prince was $394 million, which Warner's says is the biggest worldwide opening launch for any film ever. Deathly Hallows' opening launch worldwide realized slightly more than $330 million.

Robust boxoffice action overseas is crucial for Deathly Hallows since the previous Harry Potter titles drew far more box office offshore than in the U.S. and Canada. Of the $5.4 billion worldwide total accumulated by the first six Harry Potter films, $3.7 billion or about 70% was grossed on the foreign circuit, as per Warner Bros. data.

So far, the best of the franchise titles is Harry Potter and the Sorcerers's Stone. The 2001 original realized global box office of $975 million of which $657 million came from abroad. There is still one more Harry Potter title to go; the eighth and final of the series is scheduled to open in 3D next summer.

Warners said the Deathly Hallows opening gross total included $4.2 million derived from 101 IMAX screens. By contrast, the Prince bow drew about $3.6 million from 62 IMAX screens.

Box office results for other titles playing overseas on the weekend paled in comparison to the Deathly Hallows action.

No. 2, for example, was Sony and other distributors' sci-fi-action vehicle Resident Evil: Afterlife, which opened at 3,090 screens in China for an estimated $9.4 million, raising its total offshore gross take to $228.8 million. With China, the Constantin Film title has just about completed its foreign theatrical run.

Third was 20th Century Fox's Unstoppable, the Tony Scott vehicle for Denzel Washington which bagged $7.5 million in its second round from 4,002 screens in 41 markets. The runaway train action saga, which barely finished No. 1 in its opening weekend, has rolled up an offshore cume of $32 million thus far.

Fourth was Summit International's RED, the spy action caper costarring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren, which drew $6.7 million from some 2,700 screens in 46 markets, raising its offshore gross total to date to $63.2 million. It opened No. 2 in France ($2.4 million from 289 spots).

No. 5 on the weekend was Sony's The Social Network, which opened No. 2 in Korea and Hong Kong, and grossed $5.8 million overall from 2,485 screens in 55 markets. Cume for director David Fincher's drama about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stands at $85.4 million.

Universal's 3D family animation title Despicable Me drew hoisted its foreign boxoffice total over a 20-week run to $278.3 million thanks to an estimated $4.7 million weekend from about 3,000 screens in 40 markets. Paramount's Jackass 3D nudged its overseas total to $39 million after a $4.1 weekend at 1,676 locations in 24 markets.

Remaining No. 1 in France for the second straight weekend was Mars Distribution's release of director Francois Orzon's Potich (Puppet), a comedy costarring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, which grossed an estimated $3.6 million from 440 screens. Market cume stands at $10.7 million.

In Paris, Disney opened Tangled at just one location (the Grand Rex) with the family animation comedy about Princess Rapunzel and a handsome bandit drawing $258,000. Disney plans to open the title in seven markets including Mexico, Russia and Singapore this week.

Holding No. 3 in it fourth Spain round was Universal's local language coproduction, Julia's Eyes, which claimed $800,000 from 300 spots for a 24-day market cume of $7.5 million.

Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2 claimed $3 million from 2,277 situations in 39 markets, raising the horror sequel's international gross total to $80 million. EuroCorp. Distribution's Little White Lies, a drama starring Marion Cotillard, pushed its France-only cume to $37.7 million thanks to a No. 3 $2.6 million weekend at some 600 sites.

DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's 3D title Megamind, which has realized nearly $110 million in the U.S. and Canada, is in its early stages of foreign playoff, grossing $1.3 million on the weekend at 694 spots. Foreign cume is $30.2 million with European and Latin American dates beginning next month.

Other international cumes: Fox's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, $77.6 million; Sony's Eat Pray Love, $121 million; Universal's The Kids Are All Right, 42.7 million (Universal territories only); EuroCorp. Distribution's The Man Who Wanted To Live His Life, $7.5 million over three rounds in France only; Fox's Knight and Day, $185.2 million; Sony's Easy A, $12.2 million; EuroCorp. Distribution's Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds, $24.4 million over six frames in France only; Sony's The Other Guys, $48.4 million; Studio Canal's The Pricess of Montpensier, $4.7 million in three stanzas in France only; and Universal's Senna, $2.3 million from Japan and Brazil only."

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Some weekend numbers are up:

$54.4m/$469.1m HP7-1
$26m/$45.8m Tangled
$16m/$48.3m Megamind
$4.2m/$51.1m Unstoppable

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Toy Story has the yearly crown on lock.

Well after HP7.1 was declared to be only in 2D and not in 3D it was obvious that TS3 was going to win this year

Overseas, where Paramount is releasing the movie, "Little Fockers" took in $27 million in 37 foreign markets, which Paramount estimated represented about two-thirds of its foreign box-office potential.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... ox_office/

I think that is underwhelming number, given holiday season and good OS takings from previous installments

Well here in Germany FOCKERS was severly damaged by countless snowstorms - looks like this will be the worst Christmas B.O. weekend in decades...

$27.0m Fockers
$26.6m/$65.5m Tron

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Several biggies yet to come:
Italy – 29 December 2010
Estonia – 30 December 2010
South Korea – 30 December 2010
Poland – 31 December 2010
Slovakia – 6 January 2011
Portugal – 13 January 2011
Belgium – 26 January 2011
Netherlands – 26 January 2011
Germany – 27 January 2011
Turkey – 28 January 2011
France – 9 February 2011