Overseas Derby for Middle March

... where theatrical animated features continue to prosper.

Finishing No. 2 overall was Paramount's Rango, which was first the previous weekend. [The feature had] $20 million from 5,810 situations in 54 markets. The foreign take is $73 million since March 2. ...

Disney reported that Tangled drew $1.9 million from 326 locations in Japan, a 7% increase from the prior weekend's gross ... for an overseas gross total of $360.7 million. ...

The animated Gnomeo & Juliet has so far accumulated a foreign gross of $151.9 million via myriad distributors including Pathe and Disney. ... Disney's animation title Mars Needs Moms collected $3.4 million on its second weekend on the foreign circuit at 1,475 in 21 markets for a pallid foreign cume of $7.8 million. ...

Apparently foreign audiences aren't wild about pure, unadulterated mo-cap either. Who could have imagined?

(I think that the Reporter scrambled G & J's totals a bit. Box Office Mojo shows world-wide grosses of $147.2 million, while the trade paper cites $151.9 million as the foreign gross. A total gross of $151.9 million seems closer to the mark; it's unlikely the feature jumped $100 million in worldwide grosses in a week.)