Skyfall is finally starting to slow down — “only” $16 million overseas since last week. Although still a decent haul, the weekly pace is down substantially from recent weeks. The latest Bond film looks tantilizingly close to $1 billion worldwide, but it will have to stretch to make it.
The Hobbit is really rolling overseas, with $146 million since last week outside of North America. The film will most likely stop at about $525 million overseas, toward the low end of the international grosses for the Lord of the Rings trilogy (which ranged between $556 and $742 million each overseas). That would put The Hobbit on a course for $800 million worldwide (just below the low-end of the trilogy, $871 million for 2001’s Fellowship of the Ring, and well below the $1.12 billion for 2003’s Return of the King).
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