UPDATE, MONDAY 2:10 AM PT: Across the Top 10 major studio releases internationally there’s reason for some holiday cheer. This weekend’s figures are up 19.4% over last frame with The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies leading the pack at $89.2M, plus strong perfs from Exodus: Gods And Kings in new key markets and the Night At The Museum finale. Still, that result is down from last year, largely due to the impact that Frozen was having on the season with a $50.5M take in the comparable frame. Five Armies in the estimates is also about 9.3% off from Smaug’s performance last year, but there are those nasty currency fluctuations to take into account.

Still, it a big weekend for local titles. Last frame’s Indian release PK added Bollywood flair to the international box office with an offshore haul of $14.3M for a global cume of $61.46M. Meanwhile, China’s highly anticipated Taking Of Tiger Mountain from Tsui Hark made it into Rentrak’s top Top 10 at No. 7 with a weekend take of $25M and a cume — after opening on Wednesday — of $41M. Despite all of the drama that has played out about its neighbor to the North, South Korea continued drawing strong box office, notably with last week’s winner Ode To My Father and new entry The Con Artists as well as a nice milestone for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Along with those titles, see more below in the key market round-ups about such homegrown films as China’s Love On The Cloud and Gone With The Bullets; France’s La Famille Bélier, Germany’s Honig Im Kopf from hitmaker Til Schweiger, and Russia’s Yolki 1914 which marks a return to the series as director for Timur Bekmambetov.
Next week, the international marketplace will be relatively quiet in terms of New Year’s openers. The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death will haunt the UK – the first film in the franchise went on to become the biggest British horror title of all time — A Most Violent Year will bow in France, and Liam Neeson returns in Taken 3 which lands in Hong Kong. Expanding are such films as Exodus, Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, Into The Woods, Seventh Son and The Gambler.
See below the original post for key market round-ups.
PREVIOUS, SUNDAY, 12:53 PM PT: HIGHLIGHTS: The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (WB) reaches $405.1M cume overseas; Exodus: Gods And Kings (FOX) flexes $31M muscle; Night At The Museum 3 (FOX) sets Ben Stiller record in Mexico; Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner (UNI) is biggest Oz bow for a local film in 2014; Into The Woods (DIS) & Unbroken (UNI) tie at $2.7M; Paddington (SC) enters Top 10 2014 UK box office chart; Aamir Khan still drawing in PK; More…
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