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May 17, 2011
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS MAY 15: Fast Five Slides into #1

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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>Fast Five passes Rio to become the worldwide #1 film released in the January-April period.   

The table below shows the domestic and international grosses for the Top 25 films (out of the 47 movies released between January and April at over 500 theaters).  Fast Five is now #1 with $483 million worldwide, followed by Rio and its $450 million total.  Thor (with $433 million worldwide already) is technically on the “summer” list (May-August movies) but is shown on the winter list below for comparison purposes. 




To see the Top 25 worldwide chart, click “Read more” below.

JAN-APR 2011 WORLDWIDE FILM GROSSES TOP 25 FILMS            Int’l
 Rank                               ($ MILLIONS)           Impact
LW TW                      Worldwide  Domestic   Overseas   Ratio

 2  1  Fast Five              483        211       272*     1.29

 1  2  Rio                    450        147       304*     2.07

       Thor  [May release]    433        208       225      1.08 
 3  3  Rango                  241        122       119       .97


 4  4  Green Hornet           228         99       130      1.31
 5  5  Just Go with It        213        103       110      1.07
 6  6  Battle: Los Angeles    201         83       119      1.43

 7  7  Gnomeo and Juliet      177         99        78       .79
 8  8  Hop                    170        108        62*      .57
11  9  Limitless              147         85        62       .73
 9 10  No Strings Attached    146         71        75      1.06

10 11  I Am Number Four       144         55        89      1.63
12 12  Unknown                125         64        61       .97
13 13  Adjustment Bureau      116         63        53       .84
14 14  Justin Bieber: Never    98         73        25       .35
15 15  The Rite                96         33        63      1.91

16 16  Source Code             96         55        41*      .74
18 17  Sucker Punch            89         35        53*     1.52
19 18  Paul                    88         37        50      1.35 
21 19  Scre4m                  87         37        50*     1.35
18 20  Red Riding Hood         87         37        50      1.35
20 21  Season of the Witch     84         25        59      2.40

22 22  Hall Pass               81         45        36       .81

23 23  Big Mommas: Like Father 80         38        43      1.13

24 24  Sanctum                 79         23        56      2.44

25 25  Water for Elephants     79         58        21       .37

TOTAL Jan-Apr Movies         4639       2434      2205*      .91
 (Total of 47 movies)

How to read: From left to right, the first two numbers are a film’s rankings Last Week (LW) and This Week (TW), Worldwide gross (in millions), which is the sum of Estimated Domestic Final and International gross to date. (The two numbers do not always add up to the worldwide number exactly due to rounding.)  The International Impact Ratio indicates relative international performance. The Domestic number is either the actual final gross or the latest ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Ultimate estimate if the movie is still playing. The Overseas number is the actual gross to date, which tends to lag in reporting. An asterisk indicates significant overseas upside to come.  The International Impact Ratio is the film’s Overseas number divided by its Domestic number. 

The total numbers at the bottom of the chart show that worldwide box office has crossed the $4.6 billion line for the movies released January-April.  (The totals do not include Thor, a May release.)  Overseas grosses have almost caught up to the domestic total for January-April, while we expect overseas to beat domestic by a wide margin in the summer period.  

A reminder, we divide the year into thirds (Winter/Spring movies released between January and April, Summer Movies between May and August, and Fall/Holiday movies between September and December).  We will chart the January-April movies through the end of May, when we will start tracking the international audience for the May-August films.      


Check back Wednesday for a look at the mid-week domestic performance of movies currently in release (a combined look at Monday and Tuesday numbers).   

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.
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