"Toy Story 3"
Worldwide total for the latest in the Pixar franchise amounts to $326.6 million. Distributor Disney is projecting that, "based on its current performance trajectory, 'Toy Story 3' looks to easily surpass" the $361.9 million total rolled up by the 1995 original in less than three weekends of worldwide release.
Propelled by what Disney terms "record setting" runs in Latin America -- contributing $62.2 million to "Toy Story 3's" overseas total so far -- the 3D three-quel is already the biggest Pixar title ever to play the area. Mexico alone has generated $34 million over just 10 days.
The weekend's Australia opening provided $6.2 million from 365 screens while its South Africa bow contributed $1.1 million (including previews) from just 72 sites for a $15,278 per-screen average, the market's biggest opening weekend ever. New markets accounted for $9.1 million of the $36.1 million weekend tally.
In all, "Toy Story 3" has amassed its $100 million overseas total from just 35% of the overall international marketplace. Disney's gradual rollout of the film takes it to New Zealand and Turkey this week. Key European market openings (Italy, France, U.K., Spain and Germany) plus Japan and Hong Kong won't occur until next month.
Second on the weekend was 20th Century Fox's "Knight and Day," the big-budget action comedy directed by James Mangold and costarring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, which opened No. 3 domestic. In its offshore debut at 2,238 screens in 12 territories, mostly in Asia and the Caribbean, "Knight" grossed $12.6 million, for a $5,630 per-screen average.
"Knight and Day" premiered No. 1 in South Korea ($3.8 million from 501 locations) and in Russia ($3.38 million from 950 sites). The film also notched first-place rankings in Taiwan ($1 million from 135 screens), Hong Kong ($778,495 from 60 sites for a per-screen average of $12,975), Thailand, Malaysia, Trinidad and Jamaica.
Dipping its toes in foreign theatrical waters was Sony's "Grown Ups." The comedy costarring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider about a get-together of old friends over a July 4 weekend opened No. 2 in Australia, drawing $2.3 million from 224 locations for a per-screen average of $10,290.
No. 3 on the weekend was Sony's "The Karate Kid," ducking major European markets during the World Cup, opened No. 1 in Thailand, and collected $8.4 million overall from 925 screens in 26 territories including China. The remake of the 1984 original, costarring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, has grossed a total of $25.3 million overseas thus far, with $21.1 million coming from markets handled by Sony.
No. 4, Fox's "The A-Team," generated $7.7 million from 4,344 screens in 53 territories, and is for the second straight weekend No. 1 in France -- although not in the Paris area, where the Lionsgate action-comedy "Killers" took the top spot. Overseas cume for director Joe Carnahan's update of the popular NBC-TV series of the 1980s stands at $47.2 million.
Fifth was Warner Bros./New Line's "Sex and the City 2," which tallied $7.2 million at about 5,500 screens in 58 territories. Overseas gross total stands at $172 million, $91.4 million shy of the foreign gross total compiled by 2009's "Sex and the City: The Movie."
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," producer Jerry Bruckheimer's sword-and-sandals title handled by Disney, pulled $6.9 million from 6,495 situations in 54 markets in its sixth round on the foreign circuit, hoisting its offshore cume to $226 million. "Prince" has grossed $312.2 million worldwide, the sixth biggest release of 2010.
Previewing strongly in the U.K., DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's "Shrek Forever After" in 3D drew $3.7 million from 1,281 spots in 21 markets (with the official U.K. opening due this week). Foreign cume stands at $91.5 million.
Universal's comedy "Get Him to the Greek" opened strongly in the U.K., generating $2.4 million from 390 spots. Weekend overall generated $3.9 million from 770 spots in eight markets, for an early cume of $9.8 million. Same distributor's "Robin Hood" raised its overseas cume to nearly $200 million ($198.7 million) thanks to a $2.4 million weekend at 4,800 locations in 56 markets.
Other international cumes: Marvel Entertainment's "Iron Man 2," $303 million; Universal's "Green Zone," $62.7 million; Fox's "Marmaduke," $13 million; Sony's "The Back-Up Plan," $36.6 million; Universal's "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang," $60.5 million; DreamWorks Animation/Paramount's "How to Train Your Dragon," $262 million; Disney's "Alice in Wonderland," $687.6 million; and Universal's "Hanni Und Nanni," $2 million in Germany and Austria.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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