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December 19, 2011
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through December 18

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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>Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol opened with a narrow 425-theater preview domestically this weekend, but the fourth M:I opened in over two-thirds of the international markets this weekend and already has taken in $68 million overseas.  The other domestic openers this weekend had fairly limited international bookings the first weekend.  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows posted $14 million overseas this weekend (mostly in the UK), an identical number to the overseas opening of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.

Adventures of Tintin has started to max out its overseas potential.  Now it is up to the North America release to push the film to $400 million worldwide.

 

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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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