Monday, July 05, 2010

The Derby in Foreign Lands

Setting aside the worldwide love of blood-suckers, our friendly neighborhood ogre did quite well for himself.

... No. 2 on the weekend was DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek Forever After" in 3D, which opened in nine territories and took the number one spot in all of them. Leading the fresh markets were the U.K. ($13.5 million from 539 venues) and France ($11.7 million from 952 locations, a record opening for a DreamWorks title in the market) with the 3D animated movie defying hot weather conditions in each territory.

The film opened No. 1 (via C.J. Entertainment) in Korea at 630 spots drawing $6.3 million. Overall weekend take for the latest "Shrek" was $42.6 million extracted from 4,484 venues in 25 markets. Foreign cume now stands at $137 million. ...

Which means that the latest Shrek has now accumulated $ 359 million around the world ...

And the other animated entry?

Third on the weekend was Pixar/Disney's "Toy Story 3," which grossed $25.5 million from 5,001 screens in 34 territories, with Latin American markets providing $89.3 million or 60% of the film's total overseas take. Mexico alone has provided a market cume of $44.7 million ...

After being released in only 37% of the total international marketplace, the animation threequel in 3D rolled up a total foreign tally of $150.8 million. Worldwide, "Toy Story 3" has accumulated $439.8 million, making it Disney's twelfth biggest animation release ever. ...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

But how could Shrek 4 be number one in all those countries? The World Cup is going on now. I heard that those foreigners won't watch an animated movie if the World Cup is going on.

Site Meter