A generally anemic year so far on the foreign theatrical circuit continued on the weekend as Paramount's much-anticipated Rango scored a No. 1 opening at the overseas box office but with a less-than-lofty gross of $16.5 million drawn from 3,815 screens in 33 markets.
No first-place box office title this year has logged an opening weekend gross of more than $27 million overseas. As a result, foreign box office for the six American majors through February collectively dipped 31% from 2010 (when Avatar was roaring through its offshore release).
A droll animation western directed by Gore Verbinski, with the title character voiced by Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean cohort Johnny Depp, Rango boasted of No. 1 openings in the U.K. and Ireland ($3.1 million from 472 locations), Mexico ($2.7 million from 511 venues), Spain ($1.9 million from 369 spots) and Argentina ($450,000 from 106 situations).
Overall, the Rango openings bested in many markets those of Megamind, a DreamWorks Animation title that Paramount opened overseas last Oct. 28, and which has accumulated a foreign gross total of $171.1 million so far. Rango, also the No. 1 domestic opener, bows this week in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Italy.
Premiering No. 4 on the weekend was The Adjustment Bureau, Universal's drama-romance starring Matt Damon, which took in $10.5 million from 1,957 locations in 21 markets. Universal says the opening weekend figure was the biggest for a Damon vehicle since the $30 million bow 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, and was bigger than the $9 million opening of 2002's Bourne Identity.
Bureau's No. 2 bow in the U.K. produced $2.4 from 438 spots while its No. 2 Australia opener yielded $1.9 million from 219 locations. The film also opened No. 2 in the U.S. and Canada. Debuts in 10 foreign territories are scheduled this week including Germany.
Hall Pass, the New Line/Warner Bros.' comedy from the Farrelly brothers (Bobby and Peter) starring Owen Wilson, premiered in five overseas markets for $2.3 million from 443 screens. Almost all the action came from the film's No. 1 Australia opening ($2 million from 305 screens).
DreamWorks' sci-fi thriller I Am Number Four, which finished No. 1 last stanza and ranks No. 3 this time, came in with $12 million drawn from 4,184 screens in 26 territories. (Disney is distributing the film overseas.) Nearly a quarter of Four's overseas box office total ($42.1 million) comes from the film's strong China run, which generated $3.7 million from 1,200 locations on the weekend for a market cume of $9.4 million.
Placing a close second on the weekend was 20th Century Fox's Black Swan, which won a best actress Oscar for Natalie Portman, and which grossed $15.6 million from 3,959 screens in 45 markets. A No. 1 second weekend in Korea provided $2.4 million from 351 sites for a market cume of $6.3 million. Overall international gross total stands at $147.6 million.
Paramount's True Grit, No. 5 on the weekend, delivered $8 million from 3,063 in 57 territories hoisting the Coen brothers' Western update's foreign cume to $61 million. Of that number, $7.1 million comes from France, where Grit grabbed $2.1 million on the weekend from 404 situations.
Complete returns for both The King's Speech and Gnomeo & Juliet will not be received until Monday but Paramount said Speech drew $1.3 million from 307 screens in Australia and New Zealand for a combined market cume of $30.1 million. Disney puts the overseas cume of Gnomeo from all distributors at $29.1 million of which $12.5 million comes from markets handled by Disney.
Sony's Just Go With It, the romantic comedy costarring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, drew $7.3 million from 2,070 screens in 33 territories for a foreign cume so far of $35.1 million. Biggest markets are the U.K. (cume $9 million), Mexico ($6.65 million) and Germany ($5.8 million). A Brazil bow generated $1.75 million from 283 sites.
Paramount's No Strings Attached costarring Portman opposite Ashton Kutcher pushed its overseas gross total to $44.6 million thanks to a $7 million weekend at 2,835 screens in 43 markets. A Russia opening delivered $1.9 million from 430 sites. In France, the romantic comedy has accumulated $6.6 million so far.
Japan engagements usually come late in most films' release cycles but the payoff is often worth the wait. Sony and other distributors' The Tourist opened at 349 screens in the market on the weekend and drew $3.75 million. Weekend in toto provided $5.1 million from 2,580 situations in 35 markets. Foreign cume stands at $191 million.
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, the latest in Fox's comedy series starring Martin Lawrence in drag, opened in 11 markets and pulled $4.8 million overall from 2,368 screens in 32 markets for an international cume of $19.7 million. Disney Animations's 3D reworking of Brother Grimm, Tangled, grossed $4.4 million from 3,535 venues in 52 territories in its 14th weekend of overseas playoff. Overseas cume stands at $350.5 million, and its worldwide take comes in at $546.3 million.
Another strong Japan run, this one for Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, generated $4.16 million from 910 locations for a market cume of $14.5 million over two rounds. Weekend overall provided $4.37 million from 975 screens in three territories. Cume stands at $293.6 million.
Universal's release of British-made comedy Paul generated $2 million in its France opening at 280 sites while the weekend overall in three territories provided $4.2 million at 676 locations for an international cume of $22.1 million.
Still No. 1 in France in its fifth round is Pathe's hit comedy Rien a declarer (Nothing to Declare), which generated $3.7 million on the weekend at 950 sites for a market cume of $61.4 million. Fox's Gulliver's Travels in 3D starring Jack Black came up with $3.4 million from 2,115 situations in 21 territories for an overseas gross total of $171 million.
Other international cumes: Warner and other distributor's Drive Angry, $7.5 million (after a $4.6 million weekend from some 1,600 screens in 18 Warners territories); Fox's 127 Hours, $21.2 million (Fox territories only); Warner's Yogi Bear, $97 million; Paramount's Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, $6.5 million; Warner's The Rite, $25.2 million; Disney's Tron: Legacy, $224.9 million; Warner's Unknown, $18.4 million; Fox's Conviction, $2.57 million; Sony's The Green Hornet, $128.4 million; and Warner's Hereafter, $71.1 million.
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