Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) has jumped again to $629 million to date overseas (up from $441.5 million last week). United Kingdom continue to lead the way overseas ($48.2 million so far now — up from $25.7 million this time last week). Mexico moved up to the second-biggest territory ($40.7 million to date — up from $17.4 million last week). Australia ($31.7 million), Brazil ($31.4 million) and South Korea ($30.9 million to date) follow. China so far is $18.1 million, according to boxofficemojo.com, and India (huge potential market theoretically but not a big revenue source for US films in practice) is at $8.4 million so far. Japan is still yet to check in, but Avengers will be enormous there. (Click “read more” to see the updated weekly chart.)
It’s still early, but we are currently projecting The Avengers will hit $1.51 billion worldwide — a projected $610 million domestic and $900 million overseas.
BILLION DOLLAR CLUB
TOP WORLDWIDE GROSSES ($ millions)
Domestic Overseas Worldwide
1. Avatar $760.5 $2021.8 $2782.3
2. Titanic $658.0 $1517.7 $2175.7
3. The Avengers $610 $ 900 $1510 (projected)
4. Harry Potter and $381.0 $ 947.1 $1328.1
Deathly Hallows P2
5. Transformers Dark $352.3 $ 771.4 $1123.7
of the Moon
6. Lord of the Rings $377.8 $ 742.1 $1119.9
Return of the King
7. Pirates Caribbean $423.3 $ 642.9 $1066.2
Dead Man’s Chest
8. Toy Story 3 $415.0 $ 648.2 $1063.2
9. Pirates Caribbean $241.1 $ 802.8 $1043.9
On Stranger Tides
10 Star Wars Ep 1 $474.5 $ 551.7 $1026.3
Phantom Menace
11 Alice in Wonderland $334.1 $ 690.1 $1024.3
12 The Dark Knight $533.3 $ 468.6 $1001.9
Dark Shadows enters the worldwide chart just above the midpoint. Its estimated $78 million final domestic gross is complemented by an okay $37 million overseas gross to date.
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