Woody, Buzz and co. apparently have a following beyond the seas:
Pixar/Disney's "Toy Story 3," the weekend's front-ranked domestic film, also opened No. 1 on the foreign theatrical circuit, grossing $44.8 million from 4,787 screens in 25 territories -- only a quarter of the total overseas marketplace.
Monster debuts in China and Latin America helped the film register "the biggest consolidated debut for a Pixar title from this bucket of release markets, almost doubling the (comparable) high set by ' Up,' " said Disney ...
Apparently animation titles continue to have worldwide charms. And as for the ogre ...
... Fifth was DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's "Shrek Forever After" in 3D, which registered $10 million from 2,107 venues in 20 markets. The fourth installment of the 'Shrek" franchise opened No. 1 in Australia, generating $8 million over four days from 312 situations ($11.7 million including previews) with 76% coming from 3D screens.
The weekend's top five titles drew nearly $92 million, more than $20 million generated by the top five titles in 2009's comparable weekend, another indication that 2010 is ... headed for another boxoffice record overseas ....
We surmise that the usual players won't be exiting the animation business anytime soon.
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What I'm most curious about from this weekend's results is how Mr. Hayward (aka the Jonah Hex director) is going to go from there. Back to animation?
Hopefully, Bird and Stanton's entrances into live-action lead to rosier prospects.
So, Hayward's career is pretty much dead, right?
simon wells survived Time Machine...that was god awful. some animation folks should stick to what they do best...not everyone can jump to live action.
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