"Reclaiming the No. 1 foreign box office perch it relinquished last round to The Amazing Spider-Man, 20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift logged its biggest overseas weekend to date, grossing $95.2 million from 14,131 venues in 64 markets.

The Blue Sky Studio’s sequel is the fourth title in the increasingly remunerative computer animation franchise that has grossed $1.918 billion worldwide over the last 10 years.

Continental Drift’s weekend was the third best ever for the franchise, and the film's foreign gross total stands at $339.2 million accumulated since June 25, exceeding the $270.1 million cume of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted rolled up since the latter's foreign opening on June 6.

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Driving its weekend box office action were openings in 18 markets including a powerful No. 1 debut in Russia where the film generated an astounding $16.4 million at 2,090 sites, the biggest market opening weekend of the year. The U.K. came up with $9.1 million from 1,246 spots for a market cume of $20.8 million.

Continental Drift took the top spot in its second Germany stanza with $12.4 million at 1,214 playdates for a market cume of $33.6 million. In France, it remained No. 1 with $7 million generated at 1,019 spots for a market cume of $34.3 million. In all, the animation title ranked No. 1 in at least 30 territories.

The weekend’s No. 2, Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man -- fourth in the blockbuster series, which has racked up worldwide box office of $2.5 billion to date – generated $66.6 million at 16,575 venues in 87 markets, for a foreign gross total accumulated since June 27 of $320.4 million. (Worldwide, the total is $521 million.)

Unlike Continental Drift, the film premiered in several medium-to-small markets including Norway, South Africa, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic and Romania. Spider-Man retained No. 1 holds in such larger territories as Mexico (cume $19.6 million), Brazil ($17.5 million) and India ($13.3 million). Top territory was the U.K. where it took the weekend’s No. 2 spot with $6 million drawn from 911 situations for market cume of $29.5 million.

Opening lustily at some 450 screens in the U.K. was Lionsgate’s release of Magic Mike, director Steven Soderbergh’s comedy-drama about male strippers costarring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. Premier round drew an estimated $4.7 million, sufficient for a No. 3 market ranking.

Also new to the foreign circuit this round was Universal’s release of director Oliver Stone’s crime drama, Savages, which made its international debut in Mexico, Trinidad and Turkey. Weekend take was an estimated $1 million from 387 screens.

The overseas numbers posted by The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age: Continental Drift strengthen the odds that the “big six” Hollywood majors will set another foreign box office record in calendar year 2012. The current yearly high-water mark was set last year when the companies collectively drew $13.6 billion from the offshore theatrical circuit.

Through June 30, the majors have recorded a combined $6.6 billion in foreign box office, slightly ahead of the comparable $6.513 billion notched in the first six months of 2011.

This is a fairly impressive showing given that only three of the companies managed to gross more than a billion each (as compared with four last year by June 30), and that the European Soccer Tournament siphoned off theatrical attendance last month.

Propelled by the amazing $841.6 million foreign figure compiled by Marvel’s The Avengers – plus the respectable $208.1 million generated offshore by the ill-fated John Carter -- Disney finished first among big studios, compiling slightly more than $1.385 billion, down slightly more than $100 million from $1.487 billion grossed in 2011’s first half.

Fueled by Titanic 3D (foreign box office of $287.3 million), Prometheus ($165.6 million) and Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ($135.3 million), Fox finished second with a first half total of $1.248 billion, just shy of last year’s $1.253 billion. Third was Warner Bros. with $1.170 billion grossed by June 30, up 14% from 2011’s $1.030 billion.

The latest Men In Black sequel (grossing $391.9 million in the first half) pushed Sony from last place in 2011 to fourth this year. First half gross this time was $971 million, a fat 35% above the $717 million grossed last year. Second biggest first-half title for the studio was The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ($121.5 million).

Fifth was Universal, which had a busy first half (Battleship, $237.9 million) and Snow White and the Huntsmen, $182.7 million), and recorded foreign box office of $913.5 million, up 26% from last year’s $726 million. Paramount, which ranked third of the “big six” in 2011, finished last this time with $912.5 million through June 30, down 30% from last year’s $1.300 billion. Biggest title was Mission:Impossible – Ghost Protocol ($485.3 million).

On the indie side, Lionsgate/Summit reported a six-month foreign gross of $487.6 million, an increase of 151% from the 2011 first half total of $194.4 million. The big contributor, of course, was The Hunger Games, which generated a foreign tally of $275.8 million in the period.

Showing real muscle overseas was Universal’s release of Ted, which drew $9.7 million on the weekend at 353 screens in Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and Taiwan, taking the No. 1 spot in each. Second Down Under round generated $6.9 million at 237 sites while the New Zealand bow produced $1.5 million at 56 spots for a 30% market share.

Director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg has grossed a total of $31.3 million overseas so far with many playdates to go. Openings in five smaller markets are due this week. Ted ranks No. 3 on the weekend.

A No. 1 Italy opening ($3.7 million at 398 locations) propelled Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman to a $9.3 million weekend overall at some 4,000 situations in 55 territories and the weekend’s No. 4 spot. Foreign gross total for director Rupert Sanders’ period action fantasy costarring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron is well past the $200-million mark ($218.8 million).

No. 5, Brave released by Disney, is playing in 17 foreign markets, and drew $6.5 million on the weekend. Pixar’s latest animation title has grossed $46.8 million offshore compared with its $195.6 million domestic cume. DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted lifted its foreign cume to $270.1 million over six rounds via Paramount after a $4.6 million weekend at 5,470 venues in 42 countries.

After playing overseas for nine stanzas, Paramount’s The Dictator is breathing hard on the $100-million gross mark ($97.4 million). Weekend for the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy delivered $3.3 million from 1,435 sites in 33 countries. A No. 1 Spain debut generated $1.8 million at 328 situations. Openings in seven markets including Argentina and Colombia are due this week.

Best-grossing local language newcomer in France was Les Kaira, Gaumont’s release of director-costar Franck Gastambide’s comedy about three male layabouts with porn star ambitions. Opening round at some 450 screens drew an estimated $3.3 million, sufficient for a No. 3 market ranking.

Other international cumes:Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $30.1 million after a $2.7 million weekend at 1,493 sites in 19 markets; Paramount’s Katy Perry: Part of Me, $4.1 million after a $1 million weekend at 525 venues in four markets; Fox’s Prometheus, $175.1 million; Universal’s The Five-Year Engagement, $18.3 million after a $2.5 million weekend at 1,100 sites in 11 territories; and Marvel/Disney’s The Avengers, $844.1 million."

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Prometheus is an unstoppable force of nature!

Since this will be a long weekend without real numbers (domestic & international) for most movies, I can offer in the meantime this statistic:

The Top Ten movies of the year so far in 35 different countries

http://www.insidekino.com/BO/2012JUL.htm

Sweet. Thanks for that.

That is very interesting to see them nicely laid out like that!

Is there a source for the current aggregated international top ten?

"Blazingly hot temperatures in the U.K. and on the Continent plus summer Olympics distractions crimped overseas box office overall on the weekend as The Dark Knight Rises claimed the No. 1 spot with a take of $34.2 million -- down nearly 50% from its prior round -- drawn from 58 offshore markets.


Distributor Warner Bros. said director Christopher Nolan’s final Batman title is tracking 46% ahead of the comparable take of its franchise predecessor 2008’s The Dark Knight “at today’s exchange rates.” Rises has grossed $445.3 million foreign to date, $23.7 less than the overseas total amassed by Knight.

Top Rises weekend markets were the U.K. ($3.3 in fourth round, market cume, $72.2 million), France ($3 million in third frame, cume $24.8 million) and Brazil ($3 million, cume $19.6 million).


Introducing itself in 13 foreign territories day-and-date with its No. 1 U.S. debut was The Bourne Legacy, the fourth episode of the espionage franchise inspired by Robert Ludlum’s novels.


Co-starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton, Legacy drew $7.8 million from 694 locations -- averaging nearly $11,300 per site -- in Eastern Europe, India, the Caribbean and in Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam).


Top debut market was the Philippines ($2.7 million at 130 situations, a record market opening for a Universal title) followed by Singapore ($1.4 million at just 26 spots for an per-site average of nearly $54,000). The No. 2 take in Taiwan was $1.2 million from 67 sites for a per-location average of nearly $18,000.


The three previous Bourne titles fronting Matt Damon grossed a total of $419.6 million on the foreign circuit with the 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum leading with an overseas tally of $215 million. 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy collected $112.3 million offshore while 2002’s The Bourne Identity registered $92.3 million.


Universal’s staggered release plan calls for Legacy to open around the world over the next few months. Openings are scheduled this week in five markets including the U.K., Australia and Spain.


Also new to the foreign circuit was The Campaign, director Jay Roach’s political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, which also opened via Warner Bros. in the U.S. and a Canada in the No. 2 spot. An Australia opening collected a solid $2.1 million from 299 screens.


Seizing the No. 2 weekend spot overall was Universal’s Ted, which captured $20.3 million at 2,850 situations in 25 territories.


Director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg has grossed more than $100 million overseas ($113.2 million) so far with playdates in 33 markets still ahead. A Spain opening generated $2.3 million at 304 locations. Ted maintained its No. 1 ranking in the U.K. with a second-round take of $4.7 million at 508 venues.


Given its lackluster reception in the U.S. and Canada, foreign box office action for Sony’s Total Recall is being closely watched.


The remake starring Colin Farrell of the 1990 Carolco Pictures original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, made its foreign debut last round, extracting just $6.16 million from a dozen territories in the Caribbean and Asia.


This time, Total Recall expanded its run to 3,990 locations in 38 markets, and drawing $18.7 million on the weekend, and lifting its overseas gross total to $27.5 million over two stanzas. The remake ranks No. 3 on the weekend.


Its No. 1 premiere in Russia generated $6 million from an unspecified number of sites. A Japan launch contributed $3.5 million, tops for an American film in the market. A No. 2 Mexico opening came up with $2 million. No. 1 holdovers were recorded forRecall in Indonesia and Malaysia.


The weekend’s fourth-ranked feature was Pixar’s Brave distributed by Disney. After two months on the foreign circuit, the animation title has grossed a total of $147.1 million overseas after garnering $17.2 million in its latest stanza in 40 territories, which Disney said represents 66% of its intended international market. Worldwide total stands at $374.4 million.


Dropping from second place last round to the weekend’s No. 5 was 20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, which collected $16.2 million from 9,890 venues in 62 markets, pushing its overseas gross total to $623.6 million.


Fox declares that Drift now ranks as the foreign circuit’s third biggest grossing animation title ever after its 2009 franchise predecessor, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($694 million), and 2010’s Toy Story 3 ($649 million) from Pixar/Disney.


Despite the blazing hot weather in the U.K. and on the Continent, suppressing the take for Lionsgate’s Step Up Revolution in various markets, the latest title in the dance-drama series costarring Kathryn McCormick and Ryan Guzman grossed a respectable $9.9 million from about 2,500 sites in 27 markets of which $7.9 million came from territories handled by Universal.


Those included the U.K. where Step Up opened No. 3 with $1.1 million drawn from 396 locations. The U.K. and Ireland market was down 46% overall on the weekend due to the hot weather, said Universal. In France, where temps were also up there (pushing overall box office down 34%), Step Up opened No. 3 with $2.4 million elicited from 311 playdates. Its total foreign gross stands at $32.6 million ($62.8 million worldwide).


After 10 frames playing overseas, DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted has accumulated $336.4 million via Paramount. Weekend provided $10.1 million at 2,695 sites in 40 territories, with a second Japan round increasing 3% to $2.4 million at 303 situations for a market cume of $11 million.


Fox’s Prometheus, director Ridley Scott sci-fi/action title, opened solidly in Germany and Austria and grossed $7.8 million on the weekend overall from 1,646 screens in five territories. Its No. 2 Germany take was $5 million drawn from 651 spots. Overseas cume now stands at $195.5 million.


Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opened in seven markets including a No. 4 opening in France ($1.8 million at 475 sites), grossing $3.5 million on the weekend overall at 1,678 spots in a total of 20 territories. Overseas cume stands at $41.7 million.


Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man has grossed $435.1 million since opening June 12 on the foreign circuit. Weekend tally was an estimated $3 million drawn from 80 markets.


Other international cumes: Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, $6.2 million over two rounds; Paramount’s The Dictator, $109.3 million; Universal’s Paranorman, $4.9 million in Mexico only; Pathe’s Un Bonheur N’Arrive Jamais Seul, $12 million after seven rounds in France only; Universal’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, $121.5 million; Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, $236.8 million; Paramount’s Katy Perry: Part of Me, $6.4 million; Fox’s Stefan Vs. Kramer, $4.8 million in Chile only; and Universal’s American Pie: Reunion, $178 million."

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I hope The Bourne Legacy is huge overseas to complement what will be a very solid domestic run. I need a sequel.

I think best-case scenario for it is $115 million domestically and $180 million overseas.

Judging by its early numbers, Total Recall won't even save face overseas, at least not as much as Battleship or Wrath of the Titans...

Brave's overseas run is a tad disappointing too...Its German opening is the worst-ever here for a Pixar film.

Surely the Asians will go for Total Recall at least. It has lots of neon.

"Millennium-Nu Image Films’ The Expendables 2, last weekend’s No. 1 title on the foreign theatrical circuit, is on track to retain its top spot this round.

The action sequel costarring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Dammes and Arnold Schwarzenegger opened No. 1 on the weekend in France via Metropolitan, grossing an estimated $5 million at some 650 theaters.

In addition, the title drew a total of $4.1 million from 1,109 playdates in Italy (where it ranked No. 2 with $1 million registered at 299 sites for a 10-day market cume of $4.3 million) and in Russia (also No. 2 with $3.1 million bagged from 810 locations for a 11-day market cume of $14.1 million) via Universal.

Universal declared that the sequel is running in each market well ahead of 2010’s Expendables, which grossed a total of $171.4 million on the foreign circuit. After 10 days in Russia, “it has already passed the lifetime gross of The Expendables ($13.7 million).”

In Spain, Expendables 2 opened via Aurum at some 315 situations, drawing an estimated $2.5 million. In the U.K. via Lionsgate, the film’s distributor in the U.S. and Canada, the sequel pulled in its No. 6 second round an estimated $1.8 million from some 465 sites, down 33% from the opening weekend. U.K. cume stands at about $7 million.

Opening gross in Sweden via Mislabel was not available at presstime. Results from about 15 holdover markets via myriad local distribs will be reported early this week. It’s likely that the final count will push The Expendable 2’s weekend tally past the $15.3 million logged by Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises, which played at 6,900 sites in 62 markets.

Rises has become the year’s highest grossing film to play in the U.K., accumulating $82.1 million over six rounds in that market. Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel has also surpassed the $500-million overseas gross mark ($519 million). The film looks to place second on the weekend.

Meanwhile, Twentieth Century Fox disclosed that it is the first of the six Hollywood majors to accumulate more than $2 billion this year in foreign box office. That benchmark was surpassed on Saturday (Aug. 25).

Thus Fox “becomes the only distributor to have achieved this milestone six times and in four consecutive calendar years” (2009 through 2012), the studio said.

Contributing to this year’s overseas box office action were Ice Age: Continental Drift (cume $665.1 million), Prometheus ($215.5 million), the 3D reissue of Titanic ($287 million), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ($136 million), This Means War ($102 million), The Descendants ($95 million) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ($87.8 million).

New to the foreign circuit this round was Sony’s Premium Rush, director David Koepp’s action title about a bike messenger pedaling for his life. Opening round at five small markets mostly in Asia produced $1.3 million at 155 screens.

The weekend’s No. 3 title, Brave, took the No. 1 spot in the U.K. in its fourth market round, drawing an estimated $4.3 million from some 565 situations. Overall, the Pixar animation title released by Disney grabbed $14.6 million in its 10th round of foreign release in 48 territories, lifting it offshore cume to $212.3 million. Worldwide tally stands at $442.4 million.

No. 4, Sony’s Total Recall generated $13.8 million on the weekend at a total of 5,725 screens in 57 markets. The remake starring Colin Farrell of the 1990 Carolco Pictures original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, made its foreign debut on Aug.1, and has collected a foreign gross total of $79.5 million thus far. A No. 1 Australia debut generated $2.5 million at 355 venues.

A No. 1 Italy opening ($7.7 million over five days at 808 locations) propelled DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted to an $11.7 million weekend at 2,933 playdates in 39 markets. It ranks No. 5 on the weekend.

Foreign cume via Paramount release stands at $369 million.

Director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi/action title via Fox, Prometheus, took in $11.67 million from 2,084 screens in seven territories.

Universal’s Ted, director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, pushed its international gross total to $155 million (with 27 territories still to play) thanks to a $9.5 million weekend at 2,900 locations in 31 markets. Same distrib’s The Bourne Legacy, co-starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton, broadened its run by six territories, and drew $9.4 million from 2,600 locations in 24 territories in all. Cume stands at $43.9 million.

Animation title Fox Ice Age: Continental Drift added $7.6 million to its foreign coffers on the weekend at 5,988 locations in 48 territories.

Opening a strong No. 1 in South Korea was director Kim Whee’s murder mystery The Neighbors about the disappearance of a teenage girl in a middle class apartment complex. Based on a popular web comic by Kang Pool, the Lotte Entertainment release drew an estimated $7.5 million from some 600 locations.

Leading the Japan market was local-language newcomer, Ruroni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan, the latest title in a series based on a manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The samurai action drama, released locally by Warner Bros. International, grossed $6.9 million (including previews) at 329 sites.

Focus Features/Universal’s ParaNorman, Laika Ent.’s 3D stop motion animation followup to Caroline, drew $3.9 million on the weekend at 2,230 situations in 17 territories for a foreign cume ot $12.5 million. Top-grossing local language title in France was director Pascal Thomas’ Associes Contre Le Crime, husband-wife caper released by Studio Canal. Debut round at some 325 sites drew an estimated $1.1 million, sufficient for a No. 5 market ranking.

Other international cumes: Summit/Lionsgate’s Step Up Revolution, $16.7 million (in markets handled by Universal only); Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $46.9 million; Paramount’s The Dictator, $112.7 million (after a $2.3 million weekend at 963 spots in 22 markets); Fox’s The Three Stooges, $7.7 million; Marvel’s/Disney’s The Avengers, $874 million; Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, $10.7 million; Paramount’s Katy Perry: Part of Me, $6.9 million; and Fox’s Stefan Vs. Kramer, $8.6 million in Chile only. "

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Some great international/worldwide weekend charts:

http://www.rentrak.com/section/corporat ... rts.html#1

http://www.insidekino.com/BO/2012SEP.htm

In case someone's interested, here's another look at the top ten movies of the year in 40 different markets...

Step Up Revolution has so far done 81 Million overseas for a worldwide total of 115.5 Million. Guess we'll be seeing a fifth.

It took me so long to figure out what 'Die Tribute von Panem' was. Stop dubbing, Germany, it's educational!

Bonus points to every market that wasn't topped by Ice Age 4!

Weekend numbers:

http://www.rentrak.com/section/corporat ... rts.html#1

"The foreign theatrical circuit shook off its late-summer box office bahs over the weekend thanks to a 65-market debut at 8,110 venues of the latest sequel in director-producer Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil franchise starring Milla Jovovich.

Resident Evil: Retribution grossed $50 million, finishing No. 1 in some 30 territories and easily taking the top spot internationally.

The action/sci-fi sequel opened in Asia particularly well in Japan (with a humongous $10.3 million drawn from 780 locations) and in Taiwan ($4.4 million at 226 spots). Russia kicked in $8.6 million drawn from 3,300 sites while Brazil came up with $3.5 million from 396 locales. A Mexico debut is due this week.

Imax reported a $3.1 million weekend tally for Retribution at its 93 offshore locations.

Anderson’s four previous Resident Evil titles have fared increasingly well at the foreign box office with 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife grossing $236.1 million, nearly four times the offshore total of the 2002 franchise original Resident Evil ($63.8 million). 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse drew $78.2 million overseas while 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction grossed $95.5 million.

Disney reported that its release of a 3D conversion of the 2003 Pixar animation smash, Finding Nemo, drew a total of $5.1 million in seven offshore markets, of which $1.3 million was registered on the weekend. (Original Nemo release racked up $527.9 million overseas.) Updated worldwide gross total for the title stands at $890.2 million.

Foreign returns for Millennium Films-Nu Image’s The Expendables 2 are incomplete. Results from a gangbusters China engagement won’t be known until this week. In France, however, the action sequel finished in the No. 3 spot, taking an estimated $1 million from 535 situations and pushing its market cume to $13.8 million.

Opening No. 1 in Austria, Belgium, Germany and in German-speaking Switzerland was The Bourne Legacy starring Jeremy Renner. Total weekend looks to finish at $9.1 million elicited from some 4,600 locations in 52 territories.

Distributor Universal said it expect this week that the sequel (with a $91.1 million cume currently) will surpass the total foreign gross of the 2002 franchise original, The Bourne Identity, which tallied $92.3 million offshore.

Universal’s Ted, director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, is expected to surpass 2009’s [i]The Hangover on Monday as the biggest-grossing original R-rated comedy ever released overseas. The Hangover’s total offshore tally is $190.2 million while Ted has rolled up $189 million thus far offshore.

On the weekend, it drew $8.1 million from 2,800 situations in 43 territories. A Mexico debut generated $2.1 million at 463 spots. With 17 foreign territories yet to play, Ted has grossed $406 million worldwide.

Opening No. 1 in Italy ($2.5 million at 551 spots) was Fox’s sci-fi/action title Prometheus, which drew $7.1 million on the weekend overall from a total of 3,126 spots in five territories. Overseas cume stands at $260.9 million.

DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted flew past the $400-million foreign gross mark ($405 million) after a $6.9 million weekend at 2,134 venues in 33 territories. A No. 1 Australia opening delivered $4.4 million (including previews) at 265 sites.

Tallying $6.4 million at 5,100 sites in 64 markets was The Dark Knight Rises, which lifted its overseas gross total to $616.4 million. Top market for the Christopher Nolan Batman sequel remains the U.K., where the film has grossed $87.1 million.

The Watch, Fox’s sci-fi/comedy with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, grossed $4.3 million at 1,956 situations in 28 territories. A No. 2 Australia bow delivered $1.8 million at 254 locations. Offshore cume stands at $18.8 million.

Sony’s Total Recall update starring Colin Farrell pushed beyond the $100-million offshore gross mark (accumulated since it opened overseas on Aug. 1) with a $3.8 million weekend at 3,030 sites in 66 territories. A No. 2 Spain bow at 423 spots delivered $1.2 million. Foreign gross total stands at $114 million.

Finishing No. 1 or No. 2 in the U.K. with $2.2 million registered at 481 spots was Focus Features/Universal’s ParaNorman. Fueled by openings in eight markets, the weekend overall generated $3.8 million at 2,700 locations in a total of 36 territories. Overseas cume stands at $25 million.

Still No. 1 in Spain is Paramount’s release of Tad: The Lost Explorer, the latest title in the Tadeo Jones animation series. Third round at 333 locations generated $2 million, lifting the film’s single market cume to $11.7 million.

Opening No. 1 in France was Gaumont’s release of Camille redouble (Camille Rewinds), a prizewinner in the Director’s Fortnight section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Directed and starring Noemie Lvovsky, the comedy about a single mother who time travels took in an estimated $1.5 million at some 400 screens.

Opening No. 2 in France was Metropolitan Film Export’s release of director John Hillcoat’s Lawless, a crime drama about bootlegging during the Great Depression. Costarring Tom Hardy, Shia La Beouf and Guy Pearce, the film nabbed an estimated $1 million from some 310 spots.

Other international cumes: Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $65 million; Paramount’s The Dictator, $117.8 million; FIP/India’s Raaz 3: The Third Dimension, $15.9 million; Universal’s Savages, $6.5 million; Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $13.6 million; Universal’s Anna Karenina, $4.3 million in U.K. only; and Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, $681.1 million."[/i]

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Expendables is now listed at 186 million overseas passing the original and a WW total of 267 million. Should be able to pass 300 million

"Rian Johnson's sci-fi pic Looper did impressive business in its foreign debut, winning the weekend with $36 million from only a handful of markets -- with the majority coming from China.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, Looper is a Chinese co-production between Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment and China's DMG. The movie opened No. 1 in China with an estimated $24 million, several million more than its U.S. bow of $21.2 million.

Worldwide, Looper took in $57.2 million, the best number of the weekend. Sony's Hotel Transylvania debuted to $43 million domestically and $8.1 million internationally from 13 markets for a global total of $51.1 million.

Looper also opened in Russia ($4.5 million), the U.K. ($3.6 million) and Australia ($2.9 million). Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment handled the film internationally, while Sony's TriStar is releasing it domestically in tandem with FilmDistrict and Endgame.

Placing No. 2 at the international box office over the weekend was Resident Evil: Retribution, which grossed $20.7 million from 6,460 venues in 65 markets.

That brings the total overseas gross for the fifth title in director-producer Paul S.W. Anderson’s action/sci-fi series starring Milla Jovovich to $137 million, putting the sequel $99 million shy of the foreign franchise record ($236.1 million) set by 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife.

A No. 3 U.K. opening at 355 locations delivered $1.25 million while a No. 2 Italy debut came up with $1.4 million at 290 spots. Retribution opened No.1 in India, and held top rankings in Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand and Venezuela.

The latest Resident Evil is being distributed in most foreign markets by Sony, which has tallied a cume of $127.1 million. Another distributor, the film’s German coproducer Constantin, has raked in 9.9 million in all thus far.

Several newcomers to the foreign circuit provided at least a soupcon of box office spice to the otherwise bland session. Twentieth Century Fox’s Taken 2, the action vehicle from Europa starring Liam Neeson, blasted off in South Korea’s holiday season to $6.4 million at 665 sites. The film opens this week in 47 markets worldwide of which 27 are handled by Fox.

Sony Pictures Animation premiered Hotel Transylvania at 1,700 screens in 13 markets, and drew $8.1 million overall on the weekend. A No. 1 Mexico debut for the family animation outing in 3D delivered $3.6 million from 525 spots while a No. 3 Australia opening generated $2.2 million at 465 situations.

The No. 1 title in France was Warner Bros. France’s release of Les Seigneurs (The Dream Team), director Olivier Dahan’s soccer comedy about veteran players reuniting to assist Brittany fishermen. First round at 608 screens drew $9 million (including previews).

Schutzengel, a Warner Bros. thriller directed and starring Til Schweiger about a troubled soldier protecting a hunted orphan, grossed $2.1 million in its opener at 512 screens in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

Ted, director Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, was buoyed by three openings, and registered $9.1 million in all on the weekend at 2,800 playdates in 44 territories. A No. 1 Hong Kong debut delivered $1.3 million at 40 sites for a muscular $32,500 per screen. Ted has grossed a total of $216 million overseas thus far with nine territories still to open.

Fox’s Ice Age: Continental Drift is winding down a lengthy overseas run with distinction. An Italy opening generated a whopping $7.8 million at 906 locales. Weekend overall came up with $8.7 million at 1,055 sites in four markets. Foreign cume for the animation sequel comes to $693.9 million -- making the family film the highest-grossing animation titled ever to be released on the foreign circuit.

Universal’s The Bourne Legacy starring Jeremy Renner raked in $7.7 million at 3,600 situations in 50 markets, hoisting its foreign gross total to $112.5 million. That puts the action sequel’s cume ahead of two of the three previous franchise titles starring Matt Damon. 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, grossing a total of $215 million, remains the franchise b.o. champ.

After 17 frames on the foreign circuit, DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted continues to chug along, generating $6.1 million on the weekend at 1,514 locations in 28 markets. Overseas gross total now stands at $422.7 million. Openings in Germany and Austria are due this week.

Pixar’s Brave, the animation title handled by Disney, pushed its foreign cume to $281.9 million thanks to a $5.2 million weekend in its 15th overseas round in 55 markets.

Opening No. 2 in Spain, after director Oliver Stone was feted at the San Sebastian Film Festival, was Universal’s Savages, which grossed $3.3 million on the weekend at 1,800 sites in 32 markets. The Spain bow contributed $1.2 million at 299 locales. Overseas cume stands at $13.7 million.

Fox’s The Watch, the sci-fi/comedy starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn boosted its foreign cume to $27 million after a $2.4 million weekend at 1,666 sites in 27 territories. Laika Entertainment’s ParaNorman, distributed offshore by Universal, drew 2.3 million at 1,900 situations in 36 territories for a foreign cume of $32.4 million.

Other international cumes: Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises, $630.8 million; Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, $19.7 million; Disney’s Finding Nemo 3D, $10.2 million; Fox’s Raaz 3D, $18.3 million; Paramount’s Tad, The Lost Explorer, $16.7 million in five rounds in Spain only; Fox’s Stefan vs. Kramer, $11.3 million in Chile only; Universal’s Anna Karenina, $7.6 million over 24 days in U.K. only; Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $67.5 million; and Fox’s Prometheus, $276.2 million.
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Looper only did $4.5M in China!

I stumbled upon this confusion, but pretty much every single news outlet is reporting the $20+ million number.

Maybe Puerto Rico reports to China now.

This will be the first time won't it? I mean if the number actually turns out to be $4.5m and then ofcourse we can never trust on Chinese numbers

But the confusion with the numbers has been there for days now. I really wonder why there isn't anything official from the studio.

Still, this is way weirder and worse than Scream 2's legendary overestimation.