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In its first week on the international box office chart, Rio seizes the top spot out of the gate. It’s too soon to tell about Scre4m and Hanna.
Rio (Fox) proudly enters the worldwide gross chart at #1, vaulting past Rango (Paramount). Rio‘s overseas gross to date of $131 million is already close to the film’s ShowbuzzDaily Estimated Domestic Final of $141 million. Keep in mind that Rio opened overseas one week before its North American premiere, but the overseas number still has plenty of upside. In contrast, Hop (Universal) is not catching fire outside North America. While we expect Hop to finish with $107 million domestically, the bunny comedy has grossed only $29 million overseas to date.
The other recent releases debuted far down the ranking of January-April movies, as they have yet to get going internationally. We will have a better view of Scre4m, Hanna and Arthur in a week or two.
See the complete ranking chart after the jump.
JAN-APR 2011 FILM GROSSES Int’l
Rank ($ MILLIONS) Impact
LW TW Worldwide Domestic Overseas Ratio
— 1 Rio 272 141 131* .93
1 2 Rango 238 122 116 .94
2 3 Green Hornet 228 99 130 1.31
4 4 Just Go with It 204 107 97 .91
3 5 Battle: Los Angeles 193 83 111 1.34
5 6 Gnomeo and Juliet 179 101 78 .77
6 7 No Strings Attached 145 71 74 1.05
8 8 Hop 137 107 29* .27
7 9 I Am Number Four 129 55 74 1.35
11 10 Limitless 122 81 41* .51
9 10 Unknown 116 65 51 .79
10 12 Adjustment Bureau 111 63 49 .77
12 13 Justin Bieber: Never 95 73 22 .31
13 14 The Rite 95 33 62 1.87
14 15 Season of the Witch 83 25 59 2.37
16 16 Paul 78 38 40* 1.06
15 17 Big Mommas: Like Father 77 38 40 1.05
18 18 Sucker Punch 76 33 43* 1.29
23 19 Source Code 71 53 19* .3517 20 Sanctum 71 23 48 2.08
— 21 Scre4m 69 51 18* .35
19 22 The Dilemma 67 48 19 .38
20 23 Hall Pass 65 47 19 .40
21 24 Lincoln Lawyer 64 59 5* .08
24 25 Red Riding Hood 59 37 23 .61
22 26 Diary Wimpy Kid 2 53 50 2 .05
25 27 Insidious 52 52 0 .00
26 28 The Mechanic 46 29 17 .58
— 29 Hanna 43 43 0* .00
— 30 Arthur 38 38 0* .00
28 31 The Roommate 37 37 0 .00
27 32 Mars Needs Moms 37 21 16 .76
— 33 Soul Surfer 36 36 0* .00
29 34 The Eagle 32 19 13 .71
30 35 Beastly 28 28 0 .00
— 36 Your Highness 22 22 0* .00
31 37 Country Strong 20 20 0 .00
32 38 Drive Angry 3D 14 10 5 .45
— 39 The Conspirator 13 13 0* .00
33 40 Take Me Home Tonight 6 6 0 .00
TOTAL Jan-Apr Movies 3522 2076 1447* .70
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 worldwide box office ranking now includes movies released in 2011 through April 15. The International Impact Ratio (the last column on the right) has replaced the International Impact Index on the chart. The Ratio is simply a measure of the relative size of international dollars (Overseas box office divided by Domestic box office). An average film has a .70 ratio this time of year, while the ratio can be as high as 2.00 or more for a strongly internationally-skewing winter film. At the top of the chart, Rio and Rango have similar ratios (.93 and .94), but with much more overseas upside to go, Rio‘s ratio can rise to 1.20 or higher while Rango‘s will probably stay below 1.00.
The total numbers at the bottom of the chart show that worldwide box office has crossed the $3.5 billion line, in this, the weakest third of the year. 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 tomorrow 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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