Around-the-World Brief: 'Rio' Continues to Soar Overseas
Along with scoring the top opening weekend of 2011 domestically, Rio posted another huge weekend at the foreign box office. The Blue Sky Animation movie grossed $55.4 million to bring its foreign total to $130.9 million, which moves it ahead of The Green Hornet as the year's highest-grossing movie overseas. Add in the solid domestic performance, and Rio has already made just over $170 million worldwide.
Rio maintained its altitude thanks in part to a handful of positive openings. It took first place in France with $4.4 million and snagged a decent $2.6 million start in Italy. It also earned an impressive $1 million in Venezuela, excluding last weekend's successful preview screenings.
While the openers performed well enough, it was the above-average strength of the holdover markets that really drove Rio's box office. The movie was off a light average of 23 percent in its top eight returning territories, and when one removes the notoriously front-loaded Russia that average drops to just 11 percent. Brazil led the way with $7.5 million and was followed by Russia ($5.7 million), Mexico ($4 million) and Australia ($3.2 million). The movie was actually up a bit to $2.7 million in the United Kingdom and eased 11 percent to $2.3 million in Germany. It also added $2.9 million in China and $1.4 million in Spain.
With many schools on vacation through the Easter holiday, Rio is well on its way to passing $200 million overseas in the next week or two.
Speaking of Easter, Hop started to show the faintest signs of life as the holiday approaches. It expanded in to another 14 territories and had its best weekend yet with an estimated $10.3 million. The movie debuted in second place in Mexico with $1.8 million and in fourth place in Spain with $750,000. More importantly, though, it was up 48 percent in Australia ($2.3 million) and 49 percent in the U.K. ($1.5 million). Hop has now earned $29.4 million overseas for a worldwide total of $112 million, and it's set to add another nine territories, including Brazil and Hong Kong, over Easter weekend.
Other Notables - Weekend Gross - Gross-to-Date
Sucker Punch - $9.5 - $44.2
Just Go With It - $5.8 - $97
Paul - $5.8 - $39.9
Battle: Los Angeles - $4.6 - $110.7
Red Riding Hood - $4.5 - $22.5
Source Code - $3.5 - $18.6
Gulliver's Travels - $3.5 - $179.1
Never Say Never - $2.3 - $22.3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 - $2 - $2.3
Rango - $1.7 - $115.5
The Rite - $1.2 - $61.6
No Strings Attached - $1 - $73.9Domestic Weekend Report:
• 'Rio' Leads, 'Scream' Bleeds
• Related Charts:
• Latest Foreign Charts
• 2011 Worldwide Grosses
• All-Time Worldwide
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