Middle January Foreign Derby

The ongoing box office tally of animation in foreign lands:

No. 4 was DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots ... Weekend overall came up with $14.6 million ... lifting the film’s overseas gross total to $331.7 million.

No. 5, Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, elevated its foreign gross total to $154.2 million, thanks to a $14.4 million weekend ...

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn grossed $3.4 million on the weekend ... Cume comes to $260.8 million.

Puss is approaching a worldwide gross of $500 million, with almost 70% of its ticket sales coming from abroad.

Tintin has rolled up $346.5 million around the globe, with over 80% of the money collected outside the U.S and Canada. And Alvin's latest, owns $271.6 million in worldwide totals, with 56.3% of that coming from abroad.