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 Re: Intl. Box-Office: Puss in Boots passes $500 million WW! Dr. Lecter wrote: Magnus wrote: half a billion?! god damn.
performances like puss in boots really go unnoticed a lot but they're damn impressive. here we are raving about Liam Nesson able to draw in a film close to 20m OW and a fucking talking zorro-cat makes a half a billion dollar with relative ease. LOL, that's true. Or Real Steel hitting $210 million overseas by now has gone by rather unnoticed. Or Kung Fu Panda 2 actually making over $500 million overseas... is currently sitting at $665,692,281 WW - - just $974,385 to go to ⅔ of a billion dollars! (For comparison, the original Kung Fu Panda only made $631,744,560 WW.)
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Puss in Boots passes $500 million WW! Yes, I know. I said overseas and not worldwide because that is even more impressive considering how "little" it made domestically by comparison.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Puss in Boots passes $500 million WW! That's might impressive for Puss in Boots. Its time to update the WW charts of 2011. Puss, Sherlock and MI4 should have easily passed a lot of movies now.
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"With much of the foreign theatrical circuit -- particularly in Northern and Middle Europe -- in the icy grip of sub-zero weather, weekend box office was generally soft as Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol finished No. 1 with $25.8 million grossed from 5,924 locations in 64 markets.
The largest market contributor by far to the action sequel’s overall take was China, which generated $19.8 million from some 3,000 venues over three days in Ghost Protocol’s second stanza there. So far, the China accumulated total comes to $55.7 million.
By contrast, Ghost Protocol opened No. 1 in Finland to $491,000 from 86 sites and finished No. 3 in its second Italy round with $1.6 million (a drop of 47% from the opening weekend) from 367 sites for a market cume of $5.5 million.
In any case, the film finished No. 1 for the fifth time since it opened overseas on Dec. 14. Total foreign gross for the Tom Cruise vehicle has flown past the $400-million mark ($422.3 million), proving that the star maintains considerable box office appeal offshore.
No. 2 on the weekend, Warner Bros./New Line/Walden Media’s Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, opened No. 3 in the U.K. ($2 million from 435 sites) and No. 1 in Mexico ($2.8 million from 1,085 venues). Weekend take overall was $14.1 million from a total of $3,890 screens in 19 territories, lifting the film’s foreign gross total to $41.5 million.
No. 3 was 20th Century Fox’s Chronicle, which bolted out of the gate despite the weather. The action/sci-fi vehicle about highschoolers acquiring supernatural powers opened No. 1 in the U.K. ($3.6 million from 398 sites) and in Australia ($3.1 million from 204 locations), and generated a total of $13 million in its foreign debut from 2,410 screens in 33 (mostly small, noted Fox) markets.
Fourth was Sony’s Underworld: Awakening, the latest installment of the werewolf-versus-vampire franchise starring Kate Beckinsale, which opened No. 1 in Singapore and No. 2 in Germany ($3.25 million drawn from 372 locations). Weekend overall provided $11.9 million from 3,435 situations in 57 markets, lifting the sci-fi/horror outing’s total foreign gross to $53.9 million.
No. 5, Fox’s The Descendants, grossed $11.2 million from 2,890 situations in 43 markets, elevating its early foreign gross total to $44.8 million. Director Alexander Payne’s best-picture nominee starring George Clooney remained No. 1 in Spain for the third straight round, accumulating $7.75 million so far in the market.
Opening a strong No. 1 in France was Mars Distribution’s release of La verite si je mens 3 (roughly translated as Would I Lie To You?), director Thomas Gilou’s third installment in a comedy series about a group of rambunctious Parisian textile merchants. First round at some 650 screens drew an estimated $10.2 million.
Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has accumulated a foreign gross total of $311 million, and looks to outdistance the total foreign action of 2009’s Sherlock Homes ($314 million) within the week. Latest round for the sequel drew $9.3 million from 5,515 situations in 56 territories. A Japan opening is scheduled for March 12.
Sony’s Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill got some much-needed foreign traction with a No. 1 opening in Russia ($2.5 million from 519 locations) and a No. 2 bow in the Ukraine. Its No. 5 debut in the U.K. generated $1.5 million from 242 spots. Weekend overall came up with $8 million drawn from a total of 2,395 screens in 38 territories. Overseas cume stands at $40.8 million.
Registering $7.6 million at 4,430 screens in 62 markets was director David Fincher’s adaptation of the Steig Larson novel about a trouble computer genius (Rooney Mara) investigating a decades-old crime. A No. 4 premier in Italy produced $1.1 million at 465 locations. Foreign cume to date: $99.3 million.
Still tops in Germany, and finishing No. 6 on the weekend in France, was Gaumont’s Intouchables. Take in the latter market came to an estimated $1 million from some 700 locations for a market cume of at least $154 million garnered over 14 weekend of playtime. In Germany, the comedy sensation about a wealthy quadriplegic and his caretaker with a shady past generated an estimated $6 million in its fifth round at some 725 sites for a market cume of $32 million.
Atop the box office in Italy for the third consecutive stanza was Medusa’s release of Benvenuti al Nord (Welcome to the North), the second Italian-made comedy based on the big 2008 French hit, Bienvenue chez les ch’tis. Latest round collected an estimated $3 million from some 465 locations for a market cume of an estimated $31.7 million.
Universal’s Tower Heist, the action comedy costarring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, opened in Japan via local distributor Toho-Towa at 217 spots, registering $1.4 million and taking the market’s No. 3 slot. Weekend as a whole drew $2 million from 450 playdates in 12 markets for a foreign cume of $68.5 million.
Other international cumes: Summit International’s Man on a Ledge, $9.4 million (after a 6.2 million weekend at 2,400 screens in 38 markets); Fox’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, $539,475 in four markets; DreamWorks/Disney’s War Horse, $41.2 million (after a $3.3 million weekend in 28 markets); and DreamWorks Animation/Paramount’s Puss In Boots, $367.4 million (after a $5.3 million weekend at 3,599 venues in 61 markets.
Also, Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, $189.8 million (after a $4.4 million weekend at 3,977 sites in 38 territories); Paramount’s The Devil Inside, $4 million; Universal’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, $5.7 million in Australia and New Zealand only; Fox’s The Darkest Hour, $42.9 million; The Grey, the Liam Neeson action title Universal is distributing in Russia, $2.2 million; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 3D, $1.4 million; Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, $23.6 million; Universal’s Johnny English Reborn, $157 million; and Universal’s Contraband, $8.3 million. "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/f ... cle-287166_____________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol passes $600m world That China number is unbelievable
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol passes $600m world Agreed it will beat HP:DH2 by next week in China which is just unbelievable.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol passes $600m world Quote: Foreign Box Office: 'Journey 2' Outpoints 'Star Wars' Reissue, Seizes No. 1 Spot Overseas
"Safe House" opens No. 4 while "The Vow" takes fifth place.
Continuing frigid weather causing traffic snarls, power outages and closed cinemas across much of Europe inhibited weekend box office on the foreign theatrical circuit as Journey 2: The Mysterious Island claimed the No. 1 spot with a relatively modest take of $25.5 million.
The Warner Bros./New Line/Walden Media family adventure costarring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson played at some 8,300 locations in 29 markets, including China and Russia where box office was strong. Warner’s projects the China take at $9.5 million drawn from some 2,000 sites while the Russia tally is estimated at $7.15 million from 1,021 situations.
Foreign gross total for Journey 2 ($74.7 million) is tracking 67% ahead of the comparable figure logged by the film’s 2008 predecessorJourney To The Center Of The Earth “at the same point in release in the same markets,” said Warners.
No. 2 on the weekend was Twentieth Century Fox’s reissue in 3D of 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which collected $20.5 million from 5,019 situations in 61 markets comprising 87 countries. Biggest market was Germany where the No. 2 market ranking provided $3.7 million from 489 venues.
Opening No. 1 in Australia ($3.23 million from 215 playdates) was Screen Gems/Spyglass Entertainment’s The Vow released by Sony. (No. 1 openings were also recorded in New Zealand and the Philippines.) It ranks No. 5 on the weekend.
The amnesia-themed romantic drama costarring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum drew $9.7 million on the weekend overall from 1,373 screens in 20 markets. A No. 4 U.K. debut provided $1.7 million from 323 sites.
No. 4 on the weekend wasSafe House was ushered into the international arena via Universal at 1,559 locations in 25 markets, grossing an estimated $10.2 million. The Relativity Media/Intrepid Pictures CIA crime thriller costarring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds emerged in the No. 1 spot in seven territories.
Leading market was Australia ($3 million at 207 playdates). Safe House opens in nine markets this week including Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Weekend highlights included the $11.5 million drawn by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol from 4,737 sites in 65 territories, including a muscular $8.2 million registered in China at 3,000 venues. It ranks No. 3 on the weekend.
Sony’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo generated $8.4 million from 3,665 sites in 61 markets thanks to a $3.8 million debut at 437 spots in Japan. Sony’s Underworld: Awakening, the werewolf-versus vampire sequel starring Kate Beckinsale, bagged $8.7 million on the weekend from 3,665 situations in 61 markets, lifting the film’s overseas cume to 71.1 million.
Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows surpassed by $5 million the total foreign gross rolled up by 2009’s Sherlock Homes thanks to a $5 million weekend tally collected from 3,625 sites in 55 territories. Disney’s The Muppets drew $6.6 million overseas on the weekend playing 40 territories. Offshore cume stands at $43.2 million.
Overall on the foreign circuit, the Hollywood majors recorded mixed overseas box office performances in 2012’s first month.
Leading the six-studio pack is Warners, which logged an estimated $320 million in offshore b.o. during the month largely on the back of Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows, which grossed $310 in total as of Feb. 6 ($320 million through this past weekend).
Paramount said its January foreign box office totaled $304.4 million, up 62% over last year’s comparable take thanks Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which drew just shy of $170 million during the month. (Through the weekend, the Tom Cruise action vehicle has grossed $446.6 million since its foreign run began Dec. 14.)
Fox recorded $218.8 million, down 22% from January 2011, citing a lack of first-month releases in the key Japan market compared with some $12 million in Japan box office earned in January of last year. Biggest earner this year is Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which grossed $108.6 million in January, and $193.5 million through the weekend.
Sony’s offshore b.o. fell 20.5% from last year to $163.6 million, with director David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo the leading title, grossing $78.6 million in January. The film’s current cume is $110.7 million.
Disney was off to a slow start despite the release (via DreamWorks) of Steven Spielberg’s best picture Oscar contender, War Horse. January Disney total was $78.4 million, 69% down from the $255.7 million grossed in January 2011. (War Horse has grossed a total of $47.7 million offshore through the weekend.)
Universal’s January box office overseas was up 43% from last year (to $43.5 million) thanks to the $10 million Tower Heist, the crime caper costarring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. (The film’s current cume is $70.8 million grossed since November.)
Fox’s The Descendants, another best-picture Oscar contender, drew $7.77 million on the weekend from 2,694 sites in 43 markets. Cume for the George Clooney vehicle stands at $57.1 million. Fox’s Chronicle, the action-sci/fi title about highschoolers acquiring supernatural power, lifted its foreign gross total to $23.4 million thanks to a $6 million weekend at 2,271 situations in 35 territories.
Locally-produced titles seized in the No. 1 spots in four European markets on the weekend:
In the U.K., The Woman In Black, director James Watson’s horror thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, opened via Momentum Pictures at some 420 situations, drawing an estimated $5.5 million.
In France, Mars Distribution’s La verite si je mens 3 (Would I Lie To You?), remained on top in its second week, grossing an estimated $7.6 million from 1,052 screens. The comedy about a group of Parisian textile merchants has rolled up a market cume of $22.5 million.
In Italy, Medusa Films premiered director Fausto Brizzi’s 3-D sex comedy Com’e bello far l’amore (How Nice To Make Love) at some 520 sites for an opening tally of an estimated $2.7 million.
In Germany, the phenomenally successful French comedy Intouchables continues No. 1 after six weeks, piling up a market cume so far of an estimated $37 million. In France, the cume over 15 rounds is $154 million.
The Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill from Sony opened strongly in Brazil ($2.15 million drawn from 288 screens) and produced $7.8 million on the weekend overall from 2,750 sites in 41 markets. Foreign cume stands at $51.1 million.
Other international cumes: DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots, $373.5 million (after a $4.1 million weekend at 2,689 locations in 62 markets); Universal’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, $6.6 million in Australia and New Zealand via Universal; Hugo, $21.6 million in Paramount markets only; Universal’s Contraband, $8.9 million; and Paramount’s The Devil Inside, $7.5 million.
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Updated article:
"Continuing frigid weather causing traffic snarls, power outages and closed cinemas across much of Europe inhibited weekend box office on the foreign theatrical circuit as Journey 2: The Mysterious Island claimed the No. 1 spot with a relatively moderate take of $30 million.
The Warner Bros./New Line/Walden Media family adventure costarring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson played at some 8,580 locations in 30 markets, including China and Russia where box office was strong. Warner’s projects the China take at $13.5 million drawn from some 2,000 sites while the Russia tally is estimated at $6.8 million from 1,021 situations.
Foreign gross total for Journey 2 ($79.2 million) is tracking 76% ahead of the comparable figure logged by the film’s 2008 predecessor Journey To The Center Of The Earth “at the same point in release in the same markets,” said Warners. Openings in France and Spain are due this week.
No. 2 on the weekend was Twentieth Century Fox’s reissue in 3D of 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which collected $20.45 million from 5,083 situations in 59 markets comprising 87 countries. Biggest market was Germany where the No. 2 market ranking provided $3.9 million from 489 venues.
Opening No. 1 in Australia ($3 million from 209 playdates) was Screen Gems/Spyglass Entertainment’s The Vow released by Sony. (No. 1 opening was also recorded in New Zealand.) It ranks No. 5 on the weekend.
The amnesia-themed romantic drama costarring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum drew $9.6 million on the weekend overall from 1,414 screens in 20 markets. A No. 4 U.K. debut provided $1.7 million from 319 sites.
No. 4 on the weekend was Safe House, which was ushered into the international arena via Universal at 1,559 locations in 25 markets, grossing an estimated $10 million. The Relativity Media/Intrepid Pictures CIA crime thriller costarring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds emerged in the No. 1 spot in eight territories.
Leading market was Australia ($2.9 million at 206 playdates). Spain provided a No. 1 ranking and $2.3 million from 322 sites. Safe House opens in nine markets this week including Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Weekend highlights included the $11.8 million drawn by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol from 4,571 sites in 47 territories, including a muscular $8.2 million registered in China at 3,000 venues. It ranks No. 3 on the weekend. The international total is at $446.9 million.
Sony’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo generated $8.2 million from 3,602 sites in 66 markets thanks to a $3 million debut at 431 spots in Japan. The overseas cume stands at $110.3 million. Sony’s Underworld: Awakening, the werewolf-versus vampire sequel starring Kate Beckinsale, bagged $8.4 million on the weekend from 3,025 situations in 63 markets, lifting the film’s overseas cume to $71 million.
Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows surpassed by $5 million the total foreign gross rolled up by 2009’s Sherlock Homes ($315 million) thanks to a $5.2 million weekend tally collected from 3,045 sites in 53 territories giving it $320 million. Disney’s The Muppets drew $6.6 million overseas on the weekend playing 40 territories. A No. 2 opening in the U.K. generated $4.2 million from 534 locations. Offshore cume stands at $43.2 million.
Overall on the foreign circuit, the Hollywood majors recorded mixed overseas box office performances in 2012’s first month.
Leading the six-studio pack is Warners, which logged an estimated $320 million in offshore b.o. during the month largely on the back of Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows, which grossed $310 in total as of Feb. 6 ($320 million through this past weekend).
Paramount said its January foreign box office totaled $304.4 million, up 62% over last year’s comparable take thanks Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which drew just shy of $170 million during the month. (Through the weekend, the Tom Cruise action vehicle has grossed $446.9 million since its foreign run began Dec. 14.)
Fox recorded $218.8 million, down 22% from January 2011, citing a lack of first-month releases in the key Japan market compared with some $12 million in Japan box office earned in January of last year. Biggest earner this year is Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which grossed $108.6 million in January, and $194.2 million through the weekend.
Sony’s offshore b.o. fell 20.5% from last year to $163.6 million, with director David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo the leading title, grossing $78.6 million in January. The film’s current cume is $110.3 million.
Disney was off to a slow start despite the release (via DreamWorks) of Steven Spielberg’s best picture Oscar contender, War Horse. January Disney total was $78.4 million, off 69% from the $255.8 realized in January 2011. (War Horse has grossed a total of $47.7 million offshore through the weekend.)
Universal’s January box office overseas was up 43% from last year (to $43.5 million) thanks to the $10 million Tower Heist, the crime caper costarring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. (The film’s current cume is $70.7 million grossed since November.)
Fox’s The Descendants, another best-picture Oscar contender, drew $7.86 million on the weekend from 2,691 sites in 43 markets. Cume for the George Clooney vehicle stands at $57.2 million. Fox’s Chronicle, the action-sci/fi title about highschoolers acquiring supernatural power, lifted its foreign gross total to $23.5 million thanks to a $6.1 million weekend at 2,278 situations in 35 territories.
Locally-produced titles seized in the No. 1 spots in four European markets on the weekend:
In the U.K., The Woman In Black, director James Watson’s horror thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, opened via Momentum Pictures at 412 situations, drawing $4.98 million.
In France, Mars Distribution’s La verite si je mens 3 (Would I Lie To You?), remained on top in its second week, grossing $7.4 million from 1,051 screens. The comedy about a group of Parisian textile merchants has rolled up a market cume of $24 million.
In Italy, Medusa Films premiered director Fausto Brizzi’s 3-D sex comedy Com’e bello far l’amore (How Nice To Make Love) at 598 sites for an opening tally of $3.25 million.
In Germany and in Austria, the phenomenally successful French comedy Intouchables continued No. 1 after six weeks, piling up a cume so far from the two markets of $42.9 million. In France, the market cume over 15 rounds is $162 million.
The Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill from Sony opened strongly in Brazil ($2.4 million drawn from 297 screens) and produced $7.9 million on the weekend overall from 2,746 sites in 63 markets. Foreign cume stands at $51.2 million.
Other international cumes: The Weinstein Co.’s The Artist, $37.8 million (worldwide, $61.8 million); DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots, $373.9 million (after a $4.55 million weekend at 2,763 locations in 42 markets); Universal’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, $6.5 million in Australia and New Zealand via Universal; Hugo, $21.7 million in Paramount markets only; Universal’s Contraband, $8.9 million; Paramount’s The Devil Inside, $7.9 million; Fox’s The Darkest Hour, $43.5 million; and Paramount’s Young Adult, $2 million.
Also, Focus Features/Universal’s One Day, $43.5 million; The Weinstein Co.’s My Week With Marilyn, $7.4 million; Focus Features/Universal’s Jane Eyre, $21.3 million; Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, $24.4 million; Focus Features’ The Conspirator, $4.1 million; Universal’s Johnny English Reborn, $157.6 million; Focus Features’ Beginners, $8.7 million; Sony’s Moneyball, $33.2 million; and Sony/Paramount’s The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, $295.5 million."SOURCE______________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Journey 2 already above $100 million W Definitely. They shouldn't wait another four years,k though. Should be good for a February 2014 release. Maybe add Vin Diesel this time?
We should also see another Alvin film and definitely another Puss in Boots film. The former should actually increase overseas and probably domestically.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Journey 2 already above $100 million W The Smurfs should also get a sequel, though for that I feel it might stay flat domestically but will decrease in OS, but given the strength of OS markets you never know it might still see an increase.
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"While foreign theatrical circuit experienced a listless weekend, a strong France opener buttressed by generous holdover numbers in Russia and China propelled Journey 2: The Mysterious Island to No. 1 status for the second consecutive weekend.
Overall weekend take for the Warner Bros./New Line/Walden Media family adventure costarring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson totaled an estimated $26 million – just $4 million shy of last weekend’s number – drawn from 8,700 locations in 43 markets. Overseas gross total stands at $128 million.
Journey 2’s No. 2 France debut generated $3.4 million (including previews) at 436 locations, which Warner’s said was 51% larger than the take generated in the market by the film’s 2008 predecessor Journey To The Center Of The Earth.
Second round in China delivered an estimated $7.9 million from 3,361 sites for a market cume of $36.2 million. Russia came through with $4.7 million from 1,001 sites in the second round for a market cume of $13.5 million.
Thanks largely to No. 1 premiers in Russia ($5.8 million from 1,049 screens), Australia ($3.1 million from 338 sites), 20th Century Fox’s This Means War opened offshore to $11 million drawn from 1,963 spots in 16 territories. (It ranked second on the weekend overall.)
That was “a very promising beginning considering only two of the top 10 international markets released this past weekend,” as per Fox. The romantic comedy costarring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Thomas Hardy also opened No. 1 in Hong Kong, averaging more than $6,000 per-screen there.
Opening softly in 10 markets was Warner’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which drew $2.6 million from 909 screens. The best-picture Oscar contender premiered No. 4 in Japan ($1.2 million from 309 screens) but No. 12 in the U.K. ($646,000 from 301 spots).
No. 3 was Fox’s reissue in 3D of 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which grossed $10 million on the weekend at 4,571 venues in 63 territories, lifting its offshore cume to $37.1 million.
Boosted by half-term school holiday business in the U.K., Disney’s The Muppets, scored $5.8 million on the weekend at some 550 spots, warranting a No. 2 market ranking. Market cume over 10 days comes to $17.4 million. Overall, the live-action/animation family comedy grossed on the weekend $7.6 million from 42 territories including the U.K., lifting its overseas gross total to $59.1 million. It took the weekend’s No. 4 spot.
Fifth was Fox’s release of The Descendants starring George Clooney, which opened No. 3 in Italy ($1.28 million drawn from 280 screens), and wound up grossing $7.5 million on the weekend overall from 3,014 sites in 50 markets. As a result, the best-picture Oscar candidate hoisted its overseas cume to $68.4 million.
Sony’s release of The Vow, which placed second in the U.S. and Canada, held the No. 1 spot in New Zealand, and yielded $6.8 million on the weekend overall at 1,550 screens in 24 markets. Foreign cume for the romantic comedy costarring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum stands at $22.8 million.
Making its debut in 10 mostly smaller offshore markets, Universal’s Safe House, the weekend’s No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada, drew $6 million overseas from 1,932 locations in 35 markets, pushing the early foreign gross total for the CIA crime thriller costarring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds to $19.6 million. Openings in 11 additional markets including the U.K., France and Germany are due this week.
Columbia Pictures’ coproduction, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – the weekend’s No. 3 title in the U.S. and Canada -- opened No. 3 via local distribs in the U.K. and France, and took the No. 7 spot in South Korea. The Nicolas Cage-as-Marvel comics superhero vehicle grossed an estimated $4 million from the three markets.
Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise propelled its foreign gross total to $461.9 million (of which $85.6 million comes from China) thanks to a $5.8 million weekend at 4,160 venues in 65 territories. Sony’s Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill has grossed $60.8 million since opening overseas on Nov. 9. Weekend tally was $5.5 million derived from 2,670 screens in 30 territories.
Steven Spielberg’s War Horse has grossed $54.7 million overseas so far thanks in part to a $4.7 million weekend playing in 41 markets. Hugo, director Martin Scorsese’s best-picture Oscar contender, grossed $4.3 million at 1,452 situations in 27 markets being handled by Paramount. A Brazil bow yielded $1.1 million from 257 sites. Paramount’s cume for the film, stands at $27 million.
Sony’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is nearing the $120-million-mark in total overseas gross ($119.7 million) due to a $4 million weekend at 2,530 locations in 56 markets. Same distrib’s Underworld: Awakening, the Kate Beckinsale werewolf-versus-vampire sequel, grossed $3.2 million on the weekend at 1,975 locations in 49 markets, boosting its overseas cume to $71.1 million.
Fox’s Chronicle, the action/sci-fi vehicle about high schoolers with supernatural powers, pushed its overseas gross total to $30.6 million thanks to a $3.76 million weekend playing at 1,656 locations in 41 markets.
Market leaders in an assortment of key territories:
* Maintaining its grip on the No. 1 spot in the U.K. is The Woman In Black, the horror-thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, which collected an estimated $6.5 million in its second round at some 440 spots, elevating its market cume to an estimated $17.6 million.
* Holding the No. 1 slot in France is La verite si je mens 3 (Would I Lie To You? 3), which registered an estimated $4.6 million in its third stanza at 1,050 screens. The comedy about a group of Parisian textile merchants lifted its market cume to $28.4 million.
* In Japan, Fox’s In Time, New Regency’s sci-fi thriller costarring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, opened No. 1, grossing $4.35 million at 427 locales, and elevating its total international gross to $112.4 million.
* No. 1 in Italy for the second straight round was Medusa Films’ Com’e bello far l’amore (How Nice To Make Love), a sex comedy in 3-D which grossed an estimated $2.2 million at some 450 situations, raising its market total to an estimated $7.3 million.
* Still reigning in first place in its seventh Germany round is Intouchables, the French comedy sensation, which drew an estimated $5.2 million at some 750 sites. Market cume stands at an estimated $45 million.
* In South Korea, C.J. Entertainment’s releasing of Howling, a crime drama from director Yoo Ha,, opened in the top spot, collecting an estimated $4.4 million from some 560 situations.
Other international cumes: Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, $325 million (after a $3 million weekend at 2,350 sites in 53 markets); Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, $197.9 million; Universal’s Big Miracle, $2.1 million; Paramount’s Puss In Boots, $379.2 million; Universal’s Contraband, $9.7 million; Paramount’s The Devil Inside, $9.9 million; Universal’s Tower Heist, $71.8 million; and Universal’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, $7.1 million in Australia and New Zealand only. "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/f ... war-292645_______________________________________________________________________________
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"In a largely slack weekend on the foreign theatrical circuit, Warner Bros.’ Journey 2: The Mysterious Island maintained its No. 1 box office status for the third consecutive weekend by collecting $21.1 million -- $2.6 million higher than Sunday’s estimate -- from 7,430 screens in 47 offshore territories.
A No. 1 opening in Italy contributed $2.3 million from 418 screens, edging out French comedy blockbuster Intouchables, which also made its debut in the market. The New Line/Walden Media family adventure costarring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson has grossed a total of $161.8 million -- $18.8 million more than foreign gross compiled by the film’s 2008 predecessor Journey To The Center of the Earth.
Foreign gross total through the weekend for Sunday’s best-picture Oscar winner, The Weinstein Co.’s The Artist, stands at $51.1 million thanks to a $4.6 million weekend gross at 2,057 screens in 28 markets. Nearly 60% of the total derives from two markets: France, the film’s origination point (market cume of $18.9 million) and the U.K. (market cume of $11.7 million). Worldwide, Artist has grossed $82.9 million.
Multiple Oscar winner Hugo, being handled mostly by Paramount but also by other local distributors, generated $7 million in territories handled by Paramount, playing at 1,879 venues in 29 markets, for a cume of $38.3 million. It ranks No. 4 on the weekend.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close played at more than 1,625 foreign sites on the weekend, grossing $3.7 million, as per distributor Warner’s, in 23 territories. overseas gross total stands at a soft $8.5 million.
The weekend’s No. 2 title, Safe House, Universal’s thriller starring Denzel Washington, opened in 11 territories, and collected $13.1 million on the weekend overall from 2,920 sites in 46 markets, lifting its foreign gross total to $35.4 million. Standing out was the film’s No. 3 bow in the U.K., which drew $3.4 million from 424 locations. Openings in Italy, Korea, Mexico, Panama and Indonesia are on tap this week.
Fox’s This Means War costarring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Thomas Hardy had No. 1 openings in eight mostly smaller new markets, collecting $11.2 million from 2,932 locations in 41 territories on the weekend overall. Early foreign cume stands at $25.4 million. Biggest territory was Russia where the romantic comedy picked up $3.1 million at 1,029 for a market cume of $10.4 million. The film ranks third on the weekend.
Fox’s action-sci/fi vehicle Chronicle, about teens with supernatural powers, had an impressive No. 1 bow in France ($3.2 million grossed at $341 screens), and drew $5.1 million overall at $1,503 sites in 38 territories, lifting its foreign cume to $36.9 million.
Fox’s Oscar best-picture contender The Descendants held nicely on the weekend, drawing $5.4 million from 2,645 situations in 51 territories. The film has grossed $77.8 million thus far.
DreamWorks/Disney’s War Horse from Steven Spielberg registered $5.1 million in 48 territories, lifting its overseas total to $62.7 million (worldwide take is $141.7 million). Paramount’s The Devil Inside whipped up $4.9 million on the weekend from 1,196 sites in 17 markets. A No. 1 Mexico opening furnished $2.17 million from 796 locations, which Paramount described as the market’s second biggest horror movie opening. Foreign gross total comes to $15.5 million.
Taking $5.1 million on the weekend was Fox’s 3D reissue of 1999’s Star Wars; Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which played at 2,990 venues in 59 territories. Overseas cume comes to $46.2 million. Realizing $4.5 million at 1,577 sites in 23 markets was Sony’s romantic drama The Vow, which raised its foreign gross total to $32.8 million.
Underworld: Awakening, the Kate Beckinsale vampire-versus-werewolf sequel being handled offshore by Sony and other distributors, drew weekend action of $4.5 million in 53 Sony markets, lifting its cume to $83.5 million (from all distributors). Disney’s The Muppets raised its international cume to $65.3 million thanks to a $4.1 million weekend in 42 territories.
Jack and Jill, Sony’s latest Adam Sandler comedy, drew $3.8 million on the weekend at 1,943 screens in 41 markets, nudging its foreign gross total to $68.1 million.
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Opening No. 2 in Russia was Fox International’s August 8, collecting a lusty $5.9 million from 1,467 locations. The action-drama is a Russian production about a mother’s search for her son. Although playing just one market, it managed to snare the No. 4 weekend spot overall.
Remaining No. 1 in the U.K. in its third round, Momentum’s release of The Woman In Black grossed $3.9 million at some 451 locations. Market cume for the horror-thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe comes to $23.2 million.
Also in the U.K. Fox’s Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a comedy-drama starring Judi Dench about British retirees in India, opened a solid No. 2 with $3.5 million drawn from 504 sites.
Opening No. 1 in Australia was Universal’s action thriller Contraband starring Mark Wahlberg, which grossed $1.8 million at 192 situations. That accounted for most of the film’s weekend take ($2.2 million from 564 sites in 21 territories). Foreign gross total so far comes to $12.1 million.
Dropping to the No. 2 spot in France after three rounds at the top was La verite si je mens 3 (Would I Lie To You? 3), which generated $3.1 million from 894 screens, lifting the comedy’s market cume to $35.2 million.
Still tops in Germany after eight weeks in the market, the French comedy sensation Intouchables grossed via Senator $4.6 million from some 790 sites for a market cume of $51.4 million.
The battle of competing crime dramas intensified in Korea. Showbox’s Nameless Gangster from director Yoon Jong-bin appears to have nosed out C.J. Entertainment’s Howling, last weeks market champ at the box office which appears to have finished second this time. Gangster rounded up $2.5 million in its fourth frame at 495 spots for a market cume of an estimated $27.5 million.
Sony and other distributors’ Ghost Rider 3D: Spirit of Vengeance, the superhero action vehicle starring Nicolas Cage, has collected $33.5 million since opening offshore on Feb. 12. The film ranked No. 5 in its second U.K. stanza, drawing $772,646 from 351 locations for a market cume of $3.7 million.
Maintaining its No. 1 status in Japan for the second consecutive round was Fox’s In Time, the New Regency sci-fi/thriller costarring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Take was $3.1 million drawn from, 427 situations, lifting the film’s market cume to $11.5 million and its total foreign gross to $119.6 million.
Other international cumes: Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, $327 million; Paramount’s Mission:Impossible – Ghost Protocol, $472.7 million; Sony’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, $124.2 million; Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, $202.5 million; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount’s Puss In Boots, $384.2 million; Universal’s Big Miracle, $3 million; and The Weinstein Co.’s My Week With Marilyn, $10.6 million.
Also, Sony/Paramount’s The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, $296.1 million; Universal’s Tower Heist, $72.4 million; Focus Features One Day, $43.6 million; Sony’s Moneyball, $34.6 million; Focus Features’ Jane Eyre, $21.4 million; Paramount’s Young Adult, $3.45 million; and Focus Features’ The Conspirator, $4.2 million."SOURCE_________________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW I would say with the Vow, Safe House, and Journey will all have great chances for top 10 surprises of the year, but Journey's overseas gross has to put it as the frontrunner so far. Looks like it'll increase at least 33% on the original WW. Not bad for losing its main star and a pretty weak looking film.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW Fetih 1453 is a monster in Turkey $7,444,169 opening, $17,174,409 after 2nd weekend Quote: On the opening day of the movie 300,000 people saw the film, making it a new record for first-day viewing figures for a Turkish film. In its first week, the film attracted 3.434.535 million viewers, breaking all records for a Turkish film
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW A lethargic weekend on the foreign theatrical circuit saw Journey 2: The Mysterious Island tenuously holding onto the top box office spot for the fourth consecutive weekend, grossing $15.7 million from 6,381 screens in 52 territories. The New Line/Walden Media/Warner Bros. family adventure costarring Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson opened No. 4 in Germany by tallying $1.7 million from 438 screens. Journey 2’s total foreign box office now stands at $185.6 million, $42.6 million more than the overseas total compiled by 2008 predecessor Journey To The Center Of The Earth. Universal’s 3D animation title, Dr. Seuss’The Lorax, which opened No. 1 domestically, tested international waters on the weekend via 52 Middle Eastern dates, grossing $363,916. The distributor plans a big overseas push late this month for Easter holidays. More than 60 territories will play the Illumination Ent. adaptation of the children’s classic over the next five months. Opening in eight markets, 20 Century Fox’s romantic comedy This Means War rolled up a $14.4 million weekend playing at 3,958 screens in 51 markets, and hoisting its overseas gross total to $43.5 million. Best of the new openers was the U.K. where the Reese Witherspoon-Chris Pine-Thomas Hardy vehicle staked out the No. 3 spot, collecting $2.9 million from 487 locations. It ranks No. 2 on the weekend overall. Making its debut in five markets, Universal’s Safe House, a thriller starring Denzel Washington, hoisted its foreign gross total to $51.8 million thanks to $11 million weekend at 3,584 situations in 50 territories. Along with a No. 1 bow in Indonesia, the film premiered No. 4 in Italy ($1.3 million at 319 locations). It took the weekend’s No. 3 spot overall. Fourth was DreamWorks/Disney’s young-man-and-horse drama, War Horse, which galloped to $10.6 million on the weekend, playing in 52 territories. Foreign gross total for the Steven Spielberg film comes to $79.1 million. No 5 was Director Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, which received an Academy Awards boost, grossing $10.2 million on the weekend at 2,262 venues in 32 territories handled by Paramount. A Japan opening yielded $3.3 million from 212 situations. Overseas cume from Paramount territories comes to $ 52.6 million. Opening in 22 territories, the low-budget horror title from Paramount, The Devil Inside, nailed down $6.7 million on the weekend from 1,887 sites in 36 markets. A No. 3 Germany introduction drew $1.7 million from 214 situations. Overseas cume stands at $24.1 million. Fox’s Chronicle, about high schoolers with supernatural powers, grossed $6.17 million from 2,315 situations in 35 markets. A No. 3 hold in France came up with $1.75 million from 346 spots, raising the market cume to $5.5 million. Total foreign gross comes to $44.5 million. Underworld: Awakening, the vampire versus werewolf sequel starring Kate Beckinsale, premiered No. 1 in Brazil ($1.9 million from 277 locations) and drew $4.6 million on the weekend from 1,808 sites 43 territories handled. Total take overseas for the title, $90.1 million. Opening No. 5 in Russia, Sony’s The Vow came up with $4 million on the weekend overall at 1,770 screens in 23 territories. Overseas gross total for this amnesia-themed drama starring Rachel McAdams comes to $37.8 million. Fox’s The Descendants starring George Clooney pushed it overseas gross total to $83.7 million thanks to a $3.2 million weekend grossed at 2,131 sites in 49 territories. Its best-film Oscar victory propelled director-scripter Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, starring Jean Dujardin, to a nifty $7.7 million weekend at 2,543 overseas screens in 29 territories. Foreign gross total comes to $65.3 million versus its $36.8 million domestic total thus far. In France, The Artist rebounded from the No. 11 slot in France last round to No. 2 this stanza. Weekend gross was $2.4 million drawn from 580 spots, lifting the film’s market cume to $22.2 million collected over 21 weeks. Also in France, best-actor Oscar winner Dujardin had a banner round. His latest starring vehicle (which he also co-produced, co-directed and co-scripted), is Les Infideles (The Players), which opened No. 1 in the market via Mars Distribution. Debut take was $7.8 million from 501 locations. Les Infideles is an episodic comedy about male infidelity as seen by seven directors including Dujardin. Taking the No. 1 spot in the U.K. was Fox International’s release of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, director John Madden’s comedy-drama costarring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith andTom Wilkinson about impoverished English pensioners moving to a retirement hotel in India. Second round at 510 spots jumped to $3.7 million, pushing the film’s market cume to $11 million. In Italy, Filmauro’s release of director Carlo Verdone’s Posti in piedi in paradiso (Standing In Paradise) opened No. 1 at 609 screens for $4.1 million. The comedy-drama concerns three divorced men forced to live together to save expenses. In South Korea, director Jeon Gye-soo’s third feature, Love Fiction, about the romantic tribulations of a shy writer and his paramour, opened No. 1 with an estimated $7 million registered at 615 locations. In Germany, the French comedy sensation Intouchables remains No. 1 after nine frames in the market. Latest round drew $3.37 million from 745 screens, lifting the market cume to an estimated $56.5 million. Other international cumes: Sony and other distributors’ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, $56.9 million (after a $5.9 million weekend at 3,477 sites in 44 markets); Paramount’s [b]Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, $477.7 million; Universal’s Contraband, $14.5 million; Fox’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, $50.5 million; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount’s Puss In Boots, $386.4 million; Fox’s In Time, $124.4 million; Sony’s Jack and Jill, $71.6 million (after a $2.4 million weekend at 1,320 screens in 40 markets; Fox’s August 8, $8.6 million from Russia only; Disney’s The Muppets, $69.8 million; Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, $204.2 million; and Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, $25.7 million.[/b] Also, Warner’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, $14.1 million (after a $3.2 million weekend at 1,600 screens in 30 markets); Momentum’s The Woman In Black, $17.6 million in U.K. only; Universal’s Wanderlust, $1 million from four markets; Paramount’s Young Adult, $4.2 million; Focus Features’ One Day, $43.6 million; Weinstein Co.’s My Week With Marilyn, $11.8 million; Universal’s Big Miracle, $3.9 million; Sony’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, $127.1 million; Focus Features’ Another Year, $16.5 million; Universal’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, $7.8 million in Australia only; Focus Features’ Jane Eyre, $21.4 million; Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, $331 million; and Focus Features’ The Conspirator, $4.2 million. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/foreign-box-office-lorax-journey-2-this-means-war-artist-296747_________________Chippy wrote: As always, fuck Thegun. 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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW Sherlock passes the first WW!
Underworld looks to be the first in the series to pass 100 overseas, maybe 165 WW
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW Even though the weekend was kinda slow but the overall total have been impressive for the movies this year. Surprising though is that a lot of movies in Top 10 are from last year.
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW Jack Sparrow wrote: Even though the weekend was kinda slow but the overall total have been impressive for the movies this year. Surprising though is that a lot of movies in Top 10 are from last year. only 3, and all were oscar films. Not that ridiculous considering the slow roll out for each. _________________Chippy wrote: As always, fuck Thegun. Chippy wrote: I want to live vicariously through you, Thegun!
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW Yeah but this is March and even though Oscars there isn't always a guarantee for them to do good specially when the market is slow. Anyways that second comment was for the overall year and just this weekend 
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW 686M+ WW now.
Highly impressive OS numbers for this franchise, especially with no 3D
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: MI - Ghost Protocol at $680 million WW $81.7m for John Carter by Thursday. Rather week midweek grosses.
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"While a box office phenomenon in the U.S. and Canada, The Hunger Games opened less spectacularly on the foreign theatrical circuit, grossing $59.3 million at some 7,700 locations in 67 offshore markets. Overseas action assured Lionsgate’s action/sci-fi vehicle the weekend’s No. 1 box office ranking, but Games’ foreign opening is 2012’s second biggest – nearly $10 million less than the March 11 debut weekend gross of Disney’s John Carter. (Disney International did not report a weekend total for Carter. The live-action, fantasy-adventure dropped to fourth place in such key markets Australia, Germany, Spain and South Korea. It finished No. 7 in the U.K., No. 8 in Italy and No. 9 in France, and is estimated to finish below its $40.7 million total figure reported in the prior weekend.) Starring Jennifer Lawrence as a 16-year-old heroine who fights to survive a last-person standing contest, Games registered dominant No. 1 market introductions in Australia via Roadshow ($9.69 million at some 260 sites) and in the U.K. via Lionsgate ($7.49 million from some 515 situations). Leading the non-English-speaking markets was Russia where Games grossed $6.5 million. The No. 1 France debut via Metropolitan Filmexport kicked in $3.75 million from about 400 locations while Germany via Studio Canal contributed even more, $3.9 million from 610 sites. Latin and South American action was also strong. Mexico chipped in $3.59 million while Brazil furnished $2.6 million. Muscular per-screen numbers were posted in the Philippines ($1.71 million), Singapore ($1.38 million) and in Taiwan ($1.36 million). Based on the first book of Suzanne Collins' popular trilogy about kids killing kids in a dystopian future, Games drew a worldwide opening gross of $214.3 million. Debuts in Italy, South Korea and Spain will take place next month while the film’s Japan opening is scheduled for September. Fox International’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel costarring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith picked up steam on the foreign circuit with openings in about a dozen markets, highlighted by a No. 2 Australia debut, which produced $3.75 million from 288 screens. Weekend gross overall for the comedy-drama about British pensioners in India came to $8.26 million drawn from 1,859 sites in 18 markets. Foreign cume stands at $33.3 million. Hotel opens domestically on May 4. This Means War, Fox’s romantic comedy costarring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Thomas Hardy, continues buoyantly overseas with a weekend take of $5.9 million drawn from 3,966 playdates in 51 territories. A No. 4 opening in France generated $1.2 million elicited from 406 situations. War’s foreign gross total stands at $78.8 million. Introducing itself to five medium-sized markets, Universal’s 3D animation title Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax registered $5.5 million on the weekend overall playing 1,953 venues in 25 territories. Foreign cume stands at $21.3 million with openings scheduled this week in 15 markets including Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Spain. Sony’s 21 Jump Street, the tv-based comedy costarring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, drew $5.3 million on the weekend at 800 screens in 14 markets, pushing the film’s early foreign cume to $16 million. A No. 3 New Zealand opening provided $280,000 from 50 sites. Warner’s Project X, director Todd Phillips high school comedy, lifted its overseas gross total to $20.8 million after a $4.4 million weekend at 1,300 screens in 27 markets. A No. 2 second round in France generated $2.8 million at 267 screens. The Devil Inside, Paramount’s low-budget horror title elevated its foreign gross total to $44.5 million thanks to a $3.4 million weekend at 1,970 locations in 36 territories. It finished No. 4 in its second U.K. round drawing $1.2 million from 388 situations for a market cume of $5.8 million. * Opening No. 1 in Spain was Sony’s The Vow, which grossed $1.9 million from 284 locations. On the weekend overall, the romantic comedy costarring Rachel McAdams andChanning Tatum drew 2.6 million from 1,045 screens in 26 markets, pushing the film’s overseas cume to $46.2 million. * Top-grossing local language title in France was Studio Canal’s release of Cloclo (My Way), which tallied an estimated $2.9 million from some 900 situations. Market cume for the biopic of pop star Claude “Cloclo” Francois over two rounds comes to $8.6 million. * Premiering No. 1 in South Korea was Lotte’s release of director Lee Yong-joo-I’s Architecture 101, a romantic drama grossing an estimated $5 million from 585 locations. * Surfacing No. 1 in its opening Italy round was Medusa Film’s release of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the action vehicle that has been playing the foreign markets since Feb. 24 via various local distributors. Opener for the Nicolas Cage vehicle drew an estimated $1 million at 285 spots. Director Martin Scorsese’s Hugo has grossed a total of $72.9 million in foreign territories handled by Paramount after a $2.4 million weekend at 1,648 venues in 35 markets. Grossing $2.3 million each on the weekend were two Universal releases: Contraband, the action title starring Mark Wahlberg, which played at 1,780 situations, and has collected a total of $24.8 million offshore to date; and Safe House, the CIA drama starring Denzel Washington which played at 1,980 sites for a foreign cume of $71.1 million. Other international cumes: Fox’s The Descendants, $88.9 million; Warner’s Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, $212 million; Fox’s Chronicle, $56.1 million; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount’s Puss In Boots, $394.7 million; Fox’s Star Wars – Episode I in 3D, $57.2 million; Warner’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, $347 million; Fox’s In Time, $130.4 million; Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, $483.1 million; Mars Distribution’s Les Infideles, $16.8 million in France only; and Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, $30.8 million. " SOURCE_________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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"Despite worldwide publicity on behalf of the retrofitted Titanic, Warner Bros.’ Wrath of the Titans handily maintained its hold on the foreign theatrical circuit’s No. 1 box office spot over Easter weekend, generating $43 million at 13,540 sites in 60 offshore markets.
The 3D action fantasy costarring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes experienced a 43% drop -- which Warner’s deemed “very good” -- from its No. 1 opening weekend take last round. Total foreign box office over two rounds for the special-effects-laden improvisation on Greek mythology comes to $152.5 million – almost half the total foreign gross obtained by the film’s 2010 predecessor, Clash of the Titans.
The second biggest hit ever overseas returned at No. 2 on the weekend as 1997’s Titanic grossed $35.5 million at 5,579 venues in 84 countries comprising 53 markets. No. 1 rankings were achieved in at least five markets including the U.K. ($4.36 million at 616 sites), Germany ($3.47 million including previews at 485 spots) and Italy (3 million from 340 situations).
Titanic in 3D opened No. 2 in France ($3.35 million at 358 locations) and No. 4 in South Korea ($1.56 million from 269 locations). Its No. 5 Australia bow produced $1.9 million from 209 spots. Foreign gross total (including the James Cameron blockbuster‘s original run) now stands at about $1.29 billion, second all time behind Cameron’s 2009 smash Avatar ($2.031 billion).
Dropping from No. 2 last round to No. 3 on the weekend was Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games, which collected $25.5 million from some 6,600 locations in 60 markets, down 27%. Overseas action continues to lag substantially behind the torrid domestic pace set by the action/sci-fi vehicle starring Jennifer Lawrence. Foreign gross total stands at $157.1 million versus the film’s domestic take of $302.8 million.
American Pie: Reunion (American Reunion in the U.S. and Canada) premiered offshore in 28 territories for an estimated tally of $19.3 million drawn from 2,388 locations. It ranks No. 4 on the weekend.
Distributor Universal said the overseas opening of the fourth title in the raunchy comedy franchise, which began with American Wedding in 2003, set a series overseas record. A No. 1 Russia bow drew $5.1 million from 613 sites while a first-place Australia debut generated $5 million at 229 playdates. School holidays this week should further spur Reunion’s box office.
The weekend’s No. 5 title, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, elicited $11.8 million from some 4,000 situations in 49 territories, lifting its international gross total to $59 million. Universal’s 3-D animation adapted from the classic children’s book opened in seven markets including Hong Kong where it played just 34 venues, and drew $386,000 for a per-site average of nearly $11,500.
Sony Animation/Aardman’s coproduction of The Pirates! Band of Misfits grossed $10 million on the weekend, playing at a total of 3,890 venues in 29 markets, and raising its early oversea gross total to $25.2 million. An Italy opening at 434 sites generated $1.2 million. The family animation adventure featuring the voices of Hugh Grant and Selma Hayek also opened No. 9 in Australia ($925,000 at 286 locales).
Seizing the dominant No. 1 spot in France was director-writer-actor Alain Chabet’s Sur la piste du marsuplilami (Houba! On The Trail Of The Marsupliami), Pathe’s release of the live-action/animation adventure based on a comic book series about the discovery of a mythical marsupial with a long tail. Opening five days drew an estimated $8 million from some 700 sites.
With its U.S. and Canada opening still ahead (May 4), Fox International’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, about retires in India, continues to rack up solid numbers abroad, drawing $5.3 million on the weekend from 1,423 screens in 27 territories. Cume for the drama-comedy costarring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith stands at $53.2 million. A No. 3 third round in Australia generated $2.1 million at 327 spots for a market cume of $8.3 million.
Other international cumes: Paramount’s The Devil Inside, $47.5 million; Disney’s John Carter, $195.6 million (after a $2.6 million weekend in 54 markets); Fox’s Star Wars: Episode I in 3D, $59.4 million; Sony’s 21 Jump Street, $27.6 million (after a $2.9 million weekend at 750 screens in seven markets); Disney’s War Horse, $97.7 million; Fox’s Chronicle, $57.2 million; Sony’s The Vow, $51 million; Fox’s This Means War, $87 million; Studio Canal’s Cloclo (My Way), $13 million over four rounds in France only; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount’s Puss in Boots, $403.4 million; Fox’s In Time, $131.2 million; UGC’s Mince Alors!, $4.6 million over two stanzas in France only; Hugo, $76.4 million in Paramount-handled territories only; and Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, $32.3 million."http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/w ... ice-309430______________________________________________________________________________
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Re: Intl. Box-Office: Puss in Boots passes $400 million over lol those mid size movies make a pretty penny overseas.
In Time and This Mean Wars made 131 and 87 million respectively...
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INTL Weekend (April 13-15) 'Titanic,' 'Battleship' top worldwide B.O.
3D redux earns $88 mil; U tentpole debuts with $58 mil
By Andrew Stewart
'Battleship'
Business boomed this weekend internationally, led by a pair of ship-themed pics, "Titanic" 3D and "Battleship."
"Titanic," released overseas via Fox Intl., grossed an astounding $88.2 million, of which China contributed $58 million -- the best-ever opening locally for Fox -- for an international cume of $146.4 million. Universal's "Battleship," meanwhile, bowed in 26 overseas markets, more than a month ahead of its Stateside bow (on May 18), and collected a total estimated $58 million.
Domestically, Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games" continued to display marathon-like stamina, scoring $21.5 million -- its fourth straight win Stateside -- for a cume of $337.1 million.
The weekend's Stateside players, including three wide releases, struggled to keep B.O. totals afloat, down around 12% from this time last year.
Fox's "The Three Stooges" remake performed at the high-end of tracking projections, with an estimated $17.1 million, while Lionsgate's horror pic "The Cabin in the Woods" did OK with $14.9 million. Neither pic represented a major financial investment, however.
The weekend's third new entry, FilmDistrict's "Lockout," from distrib Open Road Films, earned a tepid $6.3 million.
Domestic three-day totals, at an estimated $108 million, clocked in at the lowest so far this year, behind the weekend of March 16-18 with $111 million.
"Battleship" furthers the trend of kick-starting a pic's global run internationally several weeks, if not months, before the U.S. In 2010, Paramount essentially started the summer season first overseas, when the studio bowed "Iron Man 2" internationally before the States. The same happened last fall with "The Adventures of Tintin" -- but more than a month in advance.
In the case of "Battleship," U aimed to avoid a summer pipeline filled with big-budget tentpoles made even more crowded by the Olympics and the European soccer championship.
But even after this weekend's sluggish domestic perf, year to date totals still are approximately 18%-20% up over 2011. As one distribution exec noted, "The biz is definitely in good shape headed into summer."
From Variety
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