Sunday, June 28, 2009

Toons International B.O.

We know animation is cleaning up locally, but on the far sides of various oceans it's also holding its own. Like for example:

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" blanketed the international circuit during the weekend, recording an explosive $162 million from 9,910 screens -- a per-screen average of $16,347 -- in 58 markets for an overseas total of $181.6 million. The film's global gross is $363.2 million ...

Fox said it anticipates surpassing the $1 billion benchmark as early as this week, when the studio saturates the overseas circuit with "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." ... Pixar/Disney's "Up" raised its early overseas cume to $47.1 million with a $4.7 million weekend at 2,064 screens in 15 territories ...

Monsters Vs. Aliens, still out in the marketplace, now has a worldwide accumulation of $369 million (which boils down to 53%/47% domestic/foreign.  For this heavily American=themed feature, the box office percentages have been lower in foreign venues that DWA's other recent releases.  Ah well ....)

Coraline has $36.1 million in overseas venues; coupled with the $75.3 million the little girl pulled in across the U.S. and Canada, Henry S.'s stop-motion epic now has a worldwide box office total of $111.4 million, with more markets yet to come ...

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