fast five sold 86.6 million i wonder how many bootleg copies were sold hmmm
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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Universal’s Fast Five zoomed to the top of the foreign theatrical circuit’s box office chart on the weekend, grossing a speedy $86.6 million from 6,979 locations -- for a per-screen average of more than $12,000 -- in 58 overseas territories.
Opening in 44 new markets and almost doubling its $45.9 million gross from the prior stanza, Fast Five’s take was described by Universal as the biggest international weekend in company history, surpassing the previous weekend record ($84.3 million) grossed by 2005’s King Kong update.
Fast Five, which has been playing overseas for three rounds, has accumulated $184.8 million offshore, lifting its worldwide total gross to date to $324.7 milllion.
The fifth sequel in the turbo-charged car action franchise, directed by Justin Lin and costarring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Paul Walker, has five territories yet to play. Three open this week including China.
Paramount’s release of Marvel Entertainment’s Thor, last weekend's No. 1 title on the foreign circuit, finished second this round with $46 million drawn from 12,476 locations in 60 offshore markets. That was a nearly 50% drop from the $87 million gross notched the prior round.
Director Kenneth Branagh’s 3D interpretation of a Stan Lee comic book about an otherworldly warrior defending planet earth opened in four markets, the biggest of which was China, where “preliminary indications” put the debut gross at $2.3 million from the film’s one-day Sunday opening, said Paramount.
In 11 days, Thor has gross a total of $176 million overseas.
Sony opened Priest, a sci-fi thriller in 3D costarring Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet, at 1,460 sites in four markets for a weekend take of $5.5 million. Biggest of the debut markets was Russia, where the take was $2.9 million from some 700 locations.
Rio, 20th Century Fox’s family-oriented animation title, finished No. 3 on the weekend with $16.2 million derived from 8,706 screens in 67 markets, hoisting the film’s cume after a month of overseas playtime to $292.3 million .
Opening in 23 markets, Fox’s Water For Elephants, the Depression-era drama costarring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, grossed $11.1 million from 3,764 screens in 45 markets for an offshore cume of $21.3 million.
Opening in 44 new markets and almost doubling its $45.9 million gross from the prior stanza, Fast Five’s take was described by Universal as the biggest international weekend in company history, surpassing the previous weekend record ($84.3 million) grossed by 2005’s King Kong update.
Fast Five, which has been playing overseas for three rounds, has accumulated $184.8 million offshore, lifting its worldwide total gross to date to $324.7 milllion.
The fifth sequel in the turbo-charged car action franchise, directed by Justin Lin and costarring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Paul Walker, has five territories yet to play. Three open this week including China.
Paramount’s release of Marvel Entertainment’s Thor, last weekend's No. 1 title on the foreign circuit, finished second this round with $46 million drawn from 12,476 locations in 60 offshore markets. That was a nearly 50% drop from the $87 million gross notched the prior round.
Director Kenneth Branagh’s 3D interpretation of a Stan Lee comic book about an otherworldly warrior defending planet earth opened in four markets, the biggest of which was China, where “preliminary indications” put the debut gross at $2.3 million from the film’s one-day Sunday opening, said Paramount.
In 11 days, Thor has gross a total of $176 million overseas.
Sony opened Priest, a sci-fi thriller in 3D costarring Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet, at 1,460 sites in four markets for a weekend take of $5.5 million. Biggest of the debut markets was Russia, where the take was $2.9 million from some 700 locations.
Rio, 20th Century Fox’s family-oriented animation title, finished No. 3 on the weekend with $16.2 million derived from 8,706 screens in 67 markets, hoisting the film’s cume after a month of overseas playtime to $292.3 million .
Opening in 23 markets, Fox’s Water For Elephants, the Depression-era drama costarring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, grossed $11.1 million from 3,764 screens in 45 markets for an offshore cume of $21.3 million.
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