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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS: Rio Soars to the Top

In its first week on the international box office chart, Rio seizes the top spot out of the gate. It's too soon to tell about Scre4m and Hanna.  

Rio (Fox) proudly enters the worldwide gross chart at #1, vaulting past Rango (Paramount).  Rio's overseas gross to date of $131 million is already close to the film's ShowbuzzDaily Estimated Domestic Final of $141 million.  Keep in mind that Rio opened overseas one week before its North American premiere, but the overseas number still has plenty of upside.  In contrast, Hop (Universal) is not catching fire outside North America.  While we expect Hop to finish with $107 million domestically, the bunny comedy has grossed only $29 million overseas to date. 

The other recent releases debuted far down the ranking of January-April movies, as they have yet to get going internationally.   We will have a better view of Scre4m, Hanna and Arthur in a week or two.

See the complete ranking chart after the jump.



JAN-APR 2011 FILM GROSSES                                   Int'l
 Rank                               ($ MILLIONS)           Impact
LW TW                      Worldwide  Domestic   Overseas   Ratio
--  1  Rio                    272        141       131*      .93
 1  2  Rango                  238        122       116       .94
 2  3  Green Hornet           228         99       130      1.31
 4  4  Just Go with It        204        107        97       .91
 3  5  Battle: Los Angeles    193         83       111      1.34
 5  6  Gnomeo and Juliet      179        101        78       .77
 6  7  No Strings Attached    145         71        74      1.05
 8  8  Hop                    137        107        29*      .27
 7  9  I Am Number Four       129         55        74      1.35
11 10  Limitless              122         81        41*      .51

 9 10  Unknown                116         65        51       .79
10 12  Adjustment Bureau      111         63        49       .77
12 13  Justin Bieber: Never    95         73        22       .31
13 14  The Rite                95         33        62      1.87
14 15  Season of the Witch     83         25        59      2.37
16 16  Paul                    78         38        40*     1.06

15 17  Big Mommas: Like Father 77         38        40      1.05
18 18  Sucker Punch            76         33        43*     1.29
23 19  Source Code             71         53        19*      .35

17 20  Sanctum                 71         23        48      2.08

-- 21  Scre4m                  69         51        18*      .35
19 22  The Dilemma             67         48        19       .38
20 23  Hall Pass               65         47        19       .40
21 24  Lincoln Lawyer          64         59         5*      .08
24 25  Red Riding Hood         59         37        23       .61
22 26  Diary Wimpy Kid 2       53         50         2       .05
25 27  Insidious               52         52         0       .00
26 28  The Mechanic            46         29        17       .58
-- 29  Hanna                   43         43         0*      .00
-- 30  Arthur                  38         38         0*      .00

28 31  The Roommate            37         37         0       .00
27 32  Mars Needs Moms         37         21        16       .76
-- 33  Soul Surfer             36         36         0*      .00
29 34  The Eagle               32         19        13       .71
30 35  Beastly                 28         28         0       .00
-- 36  Your Highness           22         22         0*      .00
31 37  Country Strong          20         20         0       .00
32 38  Drive Angry 3D          14         10         5       .45
-- 39  The Conspirator         13         13         0*      .00
33 40  Take Me Home Tonight     6          6         0       .00

TOTAL Jan-Apr Movies         3522       2076      1447*      .70

How to read: From left to right, the first two numbers are a film's rankings Last Week (LW) and This Week (TW), Worldwide gross (in millions), which is the sum of Estimated Domestic Final and International gross to date. (The two numbers do not always add up to the worldwide number exactly due to rounding.)  The International Impact Ratio indicates relative international performance. The Domestic number is either the actual final gross or the latest ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Ultimate estimate if the movie is still playing. The Overseas number is the actual gross to date, which tends to lag in reporting. An asterisk indicates significant overseas upside to come.  The International Impact Ratio is the film's Overseas number divided by its Domestic number. 


The worldwide box office ranking now includes movies released in 2011 through April 15. 

The International Impact Ratio (the last column on the right) has replaced the International Impact Index on the chart.  The Ratio is simply a measure of the relative size of international dollars (Overseas box office divided by Domestic box office).  An average film has a .70 ratio this time of year, while the ratio can be as high as 2.00 or more for a strongly internationally-skewing winter film.  At the top of the chart, Rio and Rango have similar ratios (.93 and .94), but with much more overseas upside to go, Rio's ratio can rise to 1.20 or higher while Rango's will probably stay below 1.00.

The total numbers at the bottom of the chart show that worldwide box office has crossed the $3.5 billion line, in this, the weakest third of the year.  A reminder, we divide the year into thirds (Winter/Spring movies released between January and April, Summer Movies between May and August, and Fall/Holiday movies between September and December).  We will chart the January-April movies through the end of May, when we will start tracking the international audience for the May-August films.      

Check back tomorrow for a look at the mid-week domestic performance of movies currently in release (a combined look at Monday and Tuesday numbers).   

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