>Real Steel is knocking on the $200 million worldwide door, as the overseas gross to date jumped above $100 million (outweighing a downgrade in our domestic total estimate). Picking up steam, Paranormal Activity 3 doubled its overseas tally to $54 million, and it is just getting going. (See the updated chart after the jump.) Making […]
>The worldwide grosses rankings have been updated, and Rango (Paramount) now claims the top spot, passing The Green Hornet (Sony), as expected in last week’s international report. But we suspect that Rango still has some upside — the overseas number should easily exceed the movie’s domestic number, with $40-50 million more to come from outside […]
Paranormal Activity 4 opened this weekend with $27 million overseas from 33 markets, on its way to an estimated $110 million total overseas and a weak $67 million total domestic (according to ShowbuzzDaily projections). That would give PA4 a worldwide total of $177 million, tied with PA2 as the lowest in the still-very-profitable franchise. The biggest gainer overseas this […]
The Croods was the big mover overseas this past week, up $38 million outside North America to $243 million overseas and $416 million worldwide. The other big gainer outside of home was G.I. Joe: Retaliation (up $23 million overseas to $168 million overseas to date and just under $300 million worldwide). Slowing down a bit outside of the […]
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OPENINGS: There are still several days before THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) reaches these shores, and it hasn’t opened yet in other major countries like China or Japan, but it’s already looking like a blockbuster, with a huge $109.4M start in 36 territories. The first Thor made a total of $268.3M internationally, so the […]
Warner Brothers remains a mere $61 million ahead of second-place Disney, looking at worldwide grosses for films released in 2013. Each of the top two studios reaped about $50 million this past week, mostly from overseas activity for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (Warner Brothers) and Frozen (Disney). For a complete ranking of 2013 films individually by worldwide performance click […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. A great week for Fox, which vaults into second place and just over $900 million worldwide box office year to date. The very strong Fox week was paced by the domestic rollout of The Other Woman and continued international strength from Rio 2. Disney remains in the top spot with just under $1 billion worldwide […]