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UPDATE: Titanic 3D gross now stands at $190M for all international territories through Wednesday. China’s is just over $85M. Pic should cross $200M for foreign on Friday and $100M in China alone on Saturday.
11 AM: The importance of the international box office for Hollywood has never been more evident than in these weeks leading up to the official May 1st start of the summer movie season. Universal’s 2D Battleship doesn’t open in the U.S. until May 18th but it’s having another strong week at the overseas box office where its month-early debut in 28 international territories and China now bring the film’s total worldwide estimate to $72.2M and close to $100M through Sunday. Pic now opens in 24 territories. Russia opens today and early estimates predict $2.1M for the day (equal to Fast Five‘s opening day). The film released in China Wednesday and grossed an estimated $3 million on its first day for the studio’s best opener in that country (ahead of Fast Five‘s $1.7M first day which was also a Wednesday).
But that didn’t close to Fox’s massive 6-day opening weekend for Titanic 3D in China for the biggest industry opening ever. Its $67M swamped Paramount’s Transformers 3 ($56M) debut there last summer. The overall international first-weekend gross for Titanic 3D was $98.9M, putting the re-release cume-to-date at $157.1M. That’s a new record for a 3D release. That speeded the worldwide lifetime total over over $2B (including the global box office from the 1997/1998 release).
After its fourth weekend in release, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games has made an international total near $200M. Added to its domestic haul of $341M through today, it’s become the first movie in 2012 to pass $500M worldwide well on its way to $550M by the end of this weekend.
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Somebody tell me again about the heightened cultural and intellectual tastes of non-American audiences.
You posted that last week.
What’s amazing to me is that there are years and years of major Hollywood movies that haven’t been given a proper (large-scale) release in China due to the government restrictions and lack of screens in the past. For the next 10 years, Hollywood could continue to ship over re-releases of its biggest hit films as a new separate channel of box office revenue. That’s insanely cool, if you think about it, and almost makes up for the depleting DVD sales!
Phew! The film industry will live to see another decade.
Yeah, that’s a dead topic. (thanks for the chuckle)
So much for the silly Hollywood notion that furriners don’t like rah rah American patriotic stuff. They don’t care as long as stuff gets blowed up real good. So next time, leave Captain America on the title, you dunderheads!
Hollywood is not just out of touch with America, they’re out of touch with the entire world.
Let me get this straight – in a story that celebrates Hollywood’s ability to connect with a worldwide audience…your response states that Hollywood can’t connect with a worldwide audience? Brilliant analysis, sunshine. Ye gods.
Your comment makes no sense. Hollywood films are doing spectacularly well overseas and yet Hollywood is “out of touch with the entire world?” Huh?
Of course people everywhere in the world enjoy a coupla hours off from their lives to watch stuff blow up or be given bright colours and eye candy. I hate to break this, but in box office terms this is not new information. It’s been growing for years now. You think the intellect of the Pirates of the Caribbean series is why they were so big?
I mean rah-rah Americanism is still silly in most cases but perhaps foreign audiences just mentally bypass it, switch off that bit and wait for the next explosion (I mean, it doesn’t always work because sometimes it’s so hilariously embarrassing – read Battleship – that you just have to laugh AT it but the general principle is the same) or visual effects sequence to ignite the screen.
And yet, sometimes audiences can still tell the whiff of a stinker that does that (John Carter, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens) regardless. Weird.
But generally blockbusters are like McDonalds. Almost everyone enjoys one from time to time. All over the world.
The numbers for Titanic were even more impressive for Titanic in China than first reported. The actuals, which were released Tuesday, came in at 74 mill. That beat Transformers 3 by almost 20 mill. It might do 150 mill in China. For Mon, tues and Weds, Titanic has done another 14 mill in China. Its a beast.
Without a doubt, the behavior and buying patterns of people outside the US don’t match up with their knee-jerk-reaction verbal bashing of Americans.
Further proof of this fact was evidenced in a story that aired this morning on CBS which exposed France’s love affair with McDonald’s….yes, McDonald’s. Seems Starbucks is experiencing strong growth there too. The trend is the same in China.
European attitudes towards American products seem to mirror America’s attitudes toward sex……each party wants to pretend they’re above the “vice” in question, but they want it. And the fact that it’s been labeled taboo by influential entities, those entities being the church in the US and cultural purists in Europe and China, have just results in magnifying the fascination.
Every time I’ve passed one of the McDonald’s in Paris, it has been very busy. It’s a fun treat once in a while – hopefully that’s how our friends on France are treating it (the same way we used to), rather than a way of life like we do now.
This just proves one thing.
James Cameron is king of the world… Again
Problem is, he LITERALLY believes it.
Lol, obviously Titanic is still be remembered. I remember all those angry Nolan fans who were so pissed and started an internet war between Nolan and Cameron, but the truth is that Cameron is the winner.from box office to awards. After 15 years, Titanic fever is still going. 200 million dollars in just two weeks? Take thay, haters or Nolan fans.
This winner of 11 Oscars from 1997 s clearly an unstoppable beast, and obviousy, still being remembered. Whatever James Cameron touches turns into gold/phenomenon.