Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Wintertime Foreign Derby

The Reporter keeps us up-to-date.

... No. 4 was DreamWorks Animation's "Megamind" ... generating $15 million overall from 4,725 venues in 50 territories, hiking its foreign gross total to $87 million ...

Disney Animation's "Tangled" ... grossed $14 million in its fourth round overseas in 17 territories. Offshore cume stands at $97.8 million ... worldwide gross total weighs in at $225.6 million ...

DreamWorks "Shrek Forever After" ... zipped past the half million total gross mark in overseas box office ($501 million) thanks to a No. 8 opening in Japan with $1.2 million drawn from 256 locations ...

For those with scorecards at the ready, worldwide totals for the latest animated features are:

Despicable Me -- $538,988,000

Megamind -- $228,619,000

Shrek Forever After -- $739,441,993

Tangled -- $225.6 million

Toy Story 3 -- $1,063,134,492

You will note that the Mojo (linked to the titles above) has somewhat different totals for some of the features. I attribute this to a lag-time in toting up the reported moolah.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tangled is going to outgross Megamind? Really? What were the chances of that? Did anybody honestly guess that could happen?

Anonymous said...

You are a sad strange little man and I feel pity for you.

Steve Hulett said...

Tangled is going to outgross Megamind? Really? What were the chances of that? Did anybody honestly guess that could happen?

They're both good movies, so it seems entirely possible to me.

Lots of girls (and more than a few boys) are okay with Princess movies. And Tangled was bright and lively. Congratulations to the hard-working Disney crew.

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