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Seizing the No. 1 box office spot on the foreign theatrical circuit for the first time since its Oct. 27 overseas opening, DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots purred all the way to $45.6 million drawn from 5,911 locations in 42 markets.

Driving the offshore action were strong openings in 16 territories, with first-place debuts recorded in at least nine of the markets. Offshore gross total for the 3D animation spinoff of Shrek stands at $142.3 million, according to distributor Paramount International.

In Germany, Puss In Boots took the top spot with $7.2 million picked up from 680 situations for a lusty per-location average of nearly $10,600. The No. 1 Brazil take was $5.9 million from 434 venues while Australia kicked in 4 million from 262 locales. The No. 1 U.K. tally was $3.1 million derived from 510 spots in what Paramount described as a “soft market.” A No. 3 second weekend for Puss In Boots in France generated $5 million from 1,015 sites for a market cume of $14.9 million. An Italy opening looms this week.

“Soft” is the word to describe the 36-market foreign opening of Warner Bros./New Line’s New Year’s Eve, director Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy chockablock with name performers including Sarah Jessica Parker and Ashton Kutcher. Debut round drew just $12.9 million from about 2,765 screens.

The generally flabby international market in general is likely to toughen up this week thanks to Paramount’s overseas opening in 34 territories of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the latest installment in the high-octane action series starring Tom Cruise.

After three consecutive rounds at No. 1 in international box office, Summit International’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I finished No. 2 on the weekend, grossing $19.8 million from some 7,800 locations in 73 markets. Overseas cume for the first half of the concluding chapter of the saga about a high-school girl and her vampire boyfriend comes to $374 million.

The weekend’s No. 3 is Sony’s Arthur Christmas, the 3D Aardman Animation about a resentful Santa, which collected $14.3 million from 7,460 locations in 63 markets, lifting its international cume to $57.5 million. A No. 2 Russia bow provided $3.3 million from 732 situations.

Fourth was Warner Bros.’ release of Happy Feet Two, Village Roadshow’s family-oriented animation sequel about amiable penguins, which drew $10.1 million from 6,830 sites in 47 markets. Overseas gross total to date stands at $49.2 million.

Tied for fifth based on Sunday’s estimates were Intouchables and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

Dropping 40% from its prior weekend but still reigning No. 1 in France in its sixth consecutive round, Gaumont’s comedy sensation Intouchables, costarring Francois Cluzet as a wealthy quadriplegic and Omar Sy as a caretaker with a shady past, drew an estimated $8.1 million from 750 screens, pushing the film’s France cume to $106 million. (Intouchables is also playing in Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland.)

Meanwhile Tintin’s weekend tally is also projected at $8.1 million drawn from some 6,000 screens in 51 markets, elevating the cume for Steven Spielberg’s stop motion animation in 3D to $233.7 million. Sony and Paramount share offshore distribution of Tintin along with local distributors in various markets. Sony territories contributed $1.8 million to the weekend gross (cume $170.5 million) while Paramount kicked in $1.4 million (cume $52.7 million) and local distribs $4.9 million (cume 10.5 million).

Another estimated tie: Sony’s Russian acquisition, Vysotsky: Thank God I’m Alive, a profile of singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky, bagged $6.6 million from some 1,400 screens in its second Russia round, lifting the market cume to $21.3 million. Disney’s Real Steel, the Hugh Jackman action vehicle, raised its foreign gross total to $186.2 million over 10 stanzas thanks to a $6.6 million take in 52 territories.

20th Century Fox’s In Time, New Regency’s sci-fi thriller costarring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, inches toward the $100-millin foreign gross mark with a weekend take of $5.9 million from 2,046 sites in 34 territories. Cume currently stands at $91.5 million.

Opening No. 2 in France behind Intouchables was Wild Bunch’s release of Hollywoo, costarring Florence Forsti and Jamal Debbouze (who in posters for the film are pictured holding a Hollywood directional sign missing the D). The comedy laughed all the way to an estimated $5.3 million at some 500 locations.

Taking first place in its second Korea round was CJ Entertainment’s release of Spellbound, a local language romantic comedy with horror elements about a young woman pursued by ghosts who links up with a street magician. Weekend take was an estimated $4 million derived from some 540 locations.

In Japan, Toei opened its bigscreen adaptation of the hit TV Ashai series, Kamen Ridert X Kamen, roughly translated as Masked Rider X. The action vehicle drew an estimated $3.8 million in its market bow.

Making its France debut in the No. 5 spot was director Roman Polanski’s comedy-drama Carnage costarring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Weekend take was an estimated $1.4 million from some 230 situations. Over three rounds in Germany, Carnage, about parents of two combative school kids, grossed a total of about $3.6 million.

Other international cumes: Universal’s Tower Heist, $47 million; Disney’s The Muppets, $5.8 million; Sony’s Jack and Jill, $15 million; Universal’s Fuga de Cerebros 2, $4.9 million in Spain only; Sony’s Moneyball, $27.9 million; Universal’s Johnny English Reborn, $153 million; DreamWorks/Disney’s The Help, $32.6 million; Universal’s A Dangerous Method, $5.9 million; Morgan Creek/Universal’s The Thing, $8.6 million (in Universal territories only); Disney’s The Lion King 3D, $69.4 million; and Focus Features/Universal’s One Day, $42 million.

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Is TinTin popular in Australia, Mexico, Brazil or South Korea?RS just opened in Japan and I believe stil has Thailand so I think it can do it

He's known there.. Dont know if he's popular though...Should land in the 40-50 zone from these 4 countries IMO
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I ask because Tin Tin seems to be doing grat business in countries he is well known, but only average business everywhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if it falls short of 300M

Its on and off from country to country..But 300 mill should happen
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