Ice Age: Continental Drift enters the worldwide box office chart in 5th place among the movie released the last four months. Our projected $177 million domestic total is at the low end of the franchise (the original Ice Age grossed a similar $176 million domestic, far below the $197 million for Ice Age 3 and $195 million for Ice Age 2). But foreign audiences will eat up the mushy blandness of this version. Open for a couple of weeks now outside North America, Ice Age: Continental Drift has grossed $339 million overseas to date, probably headed for a total $580 million overseas, which would be the second-highest overseas total for the series (behind $690 million for Ice Age 3, but ahead of Ice Age 2 ($460 million) and Ice Age ($207 million) in 2002).
If our overseas target is correct, Ice Age 4 would total around $755 million worldwide when it ends its run, behind Ice Age 3 ($887 million) but ahead of Ice Age 2 ($655 million) and the original ($383 million).
The Amazing Spider-Man was the other American film doing significant business overseas, now $321 million to date (up from $202 million overseas to date last week at this time).
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