Pixar’s Brave has a modest $13.5 million overseas to date, obviously with a big international potential as it rolls out around the world. Pixar films generally have a healthy multiple over the domestic gross, which we are projecting to be $219 million based on the opening weekend. An overseas target of $320 million seems reasonable for Brave (a worldwide target of $540 million).
| Recent Pixar Films | ($ millions) | ||||
| Worldwide | Domestic | Overseas | |||
| 6.24.2011 | Cars 2 | 559.9 | 191.4 | 368.4 | |
| 6.18.2010 | Toy Story 3 | 1,063.2 | 415.0 | 648.2 | |
| 5.29.2009 | Up | 731.3 | 293.0 | 438.3 | |
| 6.27.2008 | WALL-E | 521.3 | 223.8 | 297.5 | |
| 6.29.2007 | Ratatouille | 623.7 | 206.4 | 417.3 | |
| 6.9.2006 | Cars | 461.9 | 244.1 | 217.9 | |
The other openers this weekend, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, have almost no potential overseas.
Madagascar 3 had another healthy week overseas, now $208 million to date (up from $157 million overseas last week). Prometheus is now $152 million overseas (up from $129 million last week). Men in Black 3 topped the $400 million mark overseas ($414 million overseas to date, up from $392 million last week). Finally, Marvel’s The Avengers is just about at the end of the line internationally, now a very impressive $838 million to date (up modestly from $833 million last week).
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