'The Green Hornet' takes second place with $16.7 million as 'Black Swan' dances into the No. 4 spot with $12.8 million; European film 'Nothing to Declare' grabs third with $16.5 million.
Disney Animation'sclaimed in its 11th week of overseas play the foreign theatrical circuit's No. 1 box office position for the third time this year, roundly besting Sony's The Green Hornet , which opened abroad more recently on Jan. 12.
Weekend overall for the durable 3D animation version of the long-haired Princess Rapunzel tale drew $23.7 million from 5,159 locations in 50 territories for an overseas gross total so far of $285.1 million, with the worldwide cume at $477.2 million. That makes Tangled the 23rd largest-grossing animation title ever released. A South Korea opening is due this Thursday (Feb. 10).
Tangled opened No. 1 in Spain, grossing $5.6 million from 472 venues, while maintaining its first-place rank in its second U.K. stanza with $7.2 million from 434 sites – down just 11% from the opening weekend -- for a market cume of $17.1 million. Strong weekend openings in Sweden and Norway were also logged.
For its part, Hornet finished No. 2, generating $16.7 million from 5,740 locations in 73 markets, and hoisting its foreign gross total to $83.8 million and its worldwide take to $171 million. The Seth Rogan vehicle, a 3D reworking of a radio series about a masked vigilante and sidekick Kato, opened No. 1 in the Ukraine and in Russia ($3.4 million from 723 sites), and in the No. 3 spot in Hong Kong ($1.1 million from just 42 screens for a lusty $26,190 average per-screen).
Action for Oscar-related titles was mixed. Paramount's The Fighter starring Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg as boxing brothers opened No. 4 in the U.K, grossing $3.3 million from 397 screens.
20th Century Fox opened director Danny Boyle 'sstarring James Franco in 10 markets for $1.5 million from 476 screens for an early cume of $2.4 million (the film has already grossed via Warner Bros. $11.3 million over five rounds in the U.K.).
opened No. 2 in France via Wild Bunch, and No. 2 in the U.K., drawing $4.8 million in its fifth stanza via Momentum for a market total of about $63 million. In Australia and New Zealand via Paramount, The Weinstein Co. co-production generated $1.8 million from 256 spots for a cume for the both markets of $22 million. Speech also opened in nine smaller markets, with the film's overall foreign cume heading north of $75 million.
At 413 locations in Australia, Mexico and New Zealand via Paramount,grossed $2 million, raising its very early overseas cume to $5.2 million. Fox's Black Swan pushed its foreign gross total to $48 million thanks to a $12.8 million weekend playing at 1,913 screens in 28 markets. Swan qualifies for the No. 4 spot on the weekend overall.
Key continental European markets on the weekend yielded exceptionally high-grossing local language openings, the biggest of which was Rien a declarer ( Nothing to Declare ) in France, the third largest foreign market last year for the big six Hollywood major studios.
Nothing to Declare did so well that it grabbed the No. 3 spot on the weekend overall.
The Pathe release of actor-director Danny Boon 's latest comedy about cultural frictions between French and Belgium customs officers drew an astonishing $16.5 million from 1,036 screens, including $2.5 million in previews from the previous weekend. Boon is the creative force behind 2008's Bienvenue chez les ch'tis ( Welcome to the Sticks ), one of France's biggest boxoffice hits.
Finishing No. 2 in its second South Korea round was Fox's Gulliver's Travel s, which drew $10.4 million on the weekend overall from 2,756 venues in 34 markets, and took the weekend's No. 5 overall spot. The Korea take was $6.3 million from 519 sites for a market cume of $12.4 million. Foreign gross total for the Jack Black vehicle in 3D is $140.1 million.
Opening overseas day-and-date with its No. 2 domestic debut was Universal's Sanctum 3D , the James Cameron -produced underwater adventure, which generated $3.1 million from 591 locations including 16 IMAX venues in Australia and the U.K. The No. 2 Australia opening produced $1.6 million from 219 sites while the No. 5 U.K. debut kicked in another $1.5 million from 372 spots.
Universal reports that The Mechanic drew $1.7 million in its second Russia market round for a local cume of $7.2 million over 11 days. U.K. box office for the Jason Statham action title from Millennium Films-Nu Image Ent. came to an estimated $1.1 million (via Lionsgate) from 310 locations for a market cume of about $3.4 million.
Taking the No. 1 spot in Germany, the fifth largest foreign market last year for the Hollywood major studios, was actor-director-scripter Til Schweiger 's father-meets-daughter comedy Kokowaah , co-produced and distributed in the market by Warner Bros. Opening round at some 670 locations drew $8 million. (Title refers to a German mispronunciation of the French culinary term, "coq au vin.") No. 1 openings in Austria and Gerrman-speaking Switzerland pushed the overall weekend take to $9.1 million.
Warner's family animation title Yogi Bear pushed its foreign cume to $47.1 million due to a $9.2 million weekend at some 3,800 screens in 35 markets. A No. 1 Mexico opening drew $2.9 million from 1,056 screens. Director Clint Eastwood 's Hereafter also from Warner's upped its foreign gross take to $50.3 million thanks to a $5.4 million weekend at about 2,000 screens in 33 markets.
As a result of a strong showing in German-speaking Europe, Tron: Legacy drew $5.3 million on the weekend from 5,019 locales in 53 markets, pushing its overseas gross total to $203.7 million with a global box office total of $372.4 million. The 3D sequel to 1982's Tron grossed $3.1 million in its second Germany round at some 520 venues.
The top three titles in Italy, 2010's ninth biggest offshore market for the Hollywood majors, were local language productions with Medusa Films' Femmine Contro Maschi ( Females Against Males ) taking the No. 1 spot. Director Fausto Brizzi 's second battle-of-the-sexes comedy opened to an estimated $4.8 million drawn from some 450 situations.
Sony and other distributors' The Tourist drew $3.9 million from 1,985 situations in 53 markets for an overseas cume of 157.5 million. Fox's Love & Other Drugs boosted its overseas take to $58.7 million thanks to a $3.4 million weekend playing 2,256 screens in 40 territories.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps resurfaced on the foreign circuit in Japan -- 2010's biggest overseas market for the U.S. major studios. Opening market round for the Oliver Stone sequel drew a mild-mannered $1.9 million from 348 screens, raising its overall overseas gross total to $81 million.
Other international cumes: Sony's Burlesque , $42.1 million; Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , $274 million; Gaumont's Le Fils a Jo , $8.6 million France only; Universal's The Dilemma , $14.4 million; Disney's The Borrower Arrietty , $4.7 million in four rounds, France only; Fox's Unstoppable , $86.8 million; Universal's Devil , $27.6 million; Mars Distribution's The Chance of My Life , $8,2 million France only; Universal's Julia's Eyes , $10.8 million; and Pyramide Distribution's Angele et Ton y, $1.1 million in France only.
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