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"Benjamin Button" stays on top overseas
Reuters - Monday, February 16
By Frank Segers
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LOS ANGELES - Lavished with 13 Oscar nominations, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" showing considerable strength at the foreign box office on Sunday, logging a second consecutive weekend at No. 1.
The Brad Pitt drama earned an estimated $31 million from 53 markets, taking its foreign tally to $118.6 million. In North America, it has earned about $122 million, but has largely run out of steam a week before the Oscars are handed out.
The film enjoyed first-place debuts in Italy .
A No. 1 Paris finish portends a French tally of $4.6 million in its second weekend, and in Spain it held on to the No. 1 spot with $3.3 million, also in its second weekend. A first-place finish in Japan helped the weekend tally.
With its Oscar nomination in the animated film category, Disney's "Bolt' has been showing real spunk internationally, finishing second and pushing its overseas total to $131.8 million thanks to a $16.5 million weekend from 38 territories. A strong U.K. bow helped as did solid bows in Holland and Belgium.
Other key Oscar bidders are doing nowhere near as well. "Milk" has earned $7.5 million to date; "Frost/Nixon" $6.4 million; "Doubt" $10.3 million; and "Revolutionary Road" $43 million.
Finishing No. 3 overall was "Valkyrie," which expanded its run to include 18 markets in Latin America, southeast Asia and parts of eastern Europe. The weekend tally was $11.9 million from 55 markets, for an international total of $72 million. The Tom Cruise drama opened at No. 1 in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico.
"He's Just Not That Into You," at No. 4, broadened its overseas run to 16 markets for a weekend estimate of $11.4 million. The comedy opened at No. 1 in Australia with $3.8 million. Its foreign total stands at $16.5 million.
New North American champ "Friday the 13th" slashed its way to $10.4 million from 30 markets. Top tallies included Britain with $2 million and Russia with $1.7 million.
Two other North American debutants also appeared on the international stage: "Confessions of a Shopaholic" earned $2.8 million from five overseas markets. "The International" pulled in $2.7 million from three markets including Germany, where the Clive Owen espionage thriller played the just-ended Berlin International Film Festival.
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