Meanwhile, Beyond Burbank ...

Animated features from other continents get traction.

South African animated 3D movie Adventures in Zambezia won the "best feature for children" award at the 21st Anima Mundi international animation festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last week.

The award is the latest in a string of successes for the debut feature from Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios ...

[T]he film has been sold to over 40 territories, and within 12 weeks of its release in five of those territories had sold over 1-million tickets, notably reaching number 2 at the box office in Russia and Germany. ...

According to AWN, the picture's box office has been respectable in lots of territories:

* In Poland, Kinoswiat the film took off with a respectable #3 at the box office but then climbed to #2 in its second week before landing at #3 again ... total box office to date is US$ 2,692,190 ...

* In the Benelux Entertainment One opened February 6th at #5 with over US$ 300,000 then climbed to #3 in its second week with an increase of +46% over its first weekend and is now perched at over US$ $1.8 million in box office. ...

* In Russia, the film opened #4 at the box office and then climbed to #2 the following week with an increase of +15.5% over its opening weekend... it was a total of 5 weeks in the Russian top 10 and has grossed over US $5.6 million. ...

* In S. Korea, distributor Bloomage racked in almost 400,000 in tickets shortly after the Christmas Holidays. Opening weekend the film did $576,000 and has now totaled over US $3 million dollars in box-office. ...

* In Portugal, newly formed distributor Outsider Films has kept the film in the top 10 for 8 weeks cracking the 100,000 admissions mark this week translating into $714,980 in box office.

* In South Africa , Nu Metro garnered over 8.25 million Rand which depending on the currency exchange rate nearly hits the US$ 1 million dollar mark and a solid success in its home turf.
* In Israel which was the first territory to open the film theatrically summer 2012 the film was the #1 Independent Animated film of the year. In its 12 weeks at the box office the film grossed over $ 750,000. ...

CG animated features continue to be a global growth industry. Most foreign product doesn't rack up the big numbers of U.S. features, but they are quite competitive in lots of countries. It ain't just Pixar, Disney DreamWorks and Blue Sky.