"Gulliver's Travels" Adaption Gains No. 1 Box Office Ranking Overseas With $24 Million!
Tron: Legacy trailing just behind with $23.7 million...
This from
The Hollywood Reporter:
"The opening weekend of 2011 on the foreign theatrical circuit saw 20th Century Fox's Gulliver's Travels narrowly taking the No. 1 box office spot for the first time, collecting $24 million from 4,495 venues in 33 territories....
Opening in 19 markets – all relatively small except in the U.K. and India -- Gulliver's generated most of its weekend action in the U.K. where it tallied $10.9 million (including previews) from 503 locations. The 3D adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 18th century classic has grossed a total of $47 million in 10 days of foreign release. The Jack Black vehicle opens this week in a half-dozen new territories, including Russia.
No. 2 was Tron: Legacy, which drew $23.7 million from 5,929 locations in 40 territories for an international gross total of $110 million since opening overseas in mid-December. A high-budget 3D sequel to 1982's Tron, Legacy premiered in six markets on the weekend of which Korea was the biggest"... "