With World Cup fever finally starting to die down, the overseas box office came alive this weekend. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse led for the second frame in a row, while animated movies Shrek Forever After and Toy Story 3 expanded and saw aggregate gains. Among new releases, Predators opened day-and-date in 22 territories while The Last Airbender and Despicable Me each debuted in four countries.
Eclipse invaded 21 new territories this weekend and was off just 22 percent to $81.1 million. Eclipse had the best opening of the year in both the United Kingdom and France, where it made $20.7 million and $12.4 million, respectively ($5.7 million of the UK’s total came from preview screenings last weekend, though). It also debuted to approximately $6.7 million in South Korea, which was a significant improvement over both Twilight and New Moon. With a massive $219 million from 63 international territories, Eclipse has officially passed the first Twilight movie in both overseas and worldwide earnings, though it still has a long way to go before overtaking New Moon’s $413.1 million foreign total.
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