Mission Impossible 4 OS Thread ($461.9M) About To Cross 700M WW

[A Marvel Fanboy]

MI4 made 16.12 TND on Saturday in Taipei, a third highest Sat. this year (TF3 29.82TND, POTC4 17.01TND, FF5 15.39 TND the first Sat.), could make 10m USD in Taiwan if legs hold. lets see if it can beat FF5.MI3 made 7.5m USD in Taiwan.

Edited December 18, 2011 by firedeep

[A Marvel Fanboy]

MI4 is heading to 9m+ HKD this weekend, barely beating SH2. 30m HKD is the goal if legs are great.

Edited December 18, 2011 by firedeep

[Fake]

It seems MI4 had a small increase on Saturday compared to Friday.So the total till Saturday is just under 3 million.

[fmpro]

Cant wait for OS numbers tonight....Huge numbers are bound to happen

[fmpro]

MI4 is heading to 9m+ HKD this weekend, barely beating SH2. 30m KHD is the goal if legs are great.

KHD?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

KHD?

HKD, Hongkong Dollar.

[fmpro]

Okey.. How oes that translate to US $?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Okey.. How oes that translate to US $?

30m HKD = 3.9m USD Edited December 18, 2011 by firedeep

[fmpro]

Okey.. Thats were ou think it will land total.Is that good?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Okey.. Thats were ou think it will land total.

Is that good?

It is good if that is the case. Will list as the #7 of the year in HK.

MI3---------396 $

MI2---------468 $

MI1---------549 $

It just went down...

Edited December 18, 2011 by firedeep

[Bluebomb]

MI4 is heading to 9m+ HKD this weekend, barely beating SH2. 30m HKD is the goal if legs are great.

Put this in the HK thread??

[CJohn]

From THR

Overseas, Paramount opened Ghost Protocol in 36 markets, where it launched to a stellar $68.2 milllion.

2011 is the year where OS markets become more important than America.

[John Marston]

is that a good number for that number of markets?

[SchumacherFTW]

From THR

Overseas, Paramount opened Ghost Protocol in 36 markets, where it launched to a stellar $68.2 milllion.

2011 is the year where OS markets become more important than America.

Don't tell that to BKB, overseas only gets mentioned if the movie tanks in the US

[fmpro]

From THR

Overseas, Paramount opened Ghost Protocol in 36 markets, where it launched to a stellar $68.2 milllion.

2011 is the year where OS markets become more important than America.

You speak the truth cjohn

[fmpro]

is that a good number for that number of markets?

I think its a great number...Lets see some breakdowns tonight before jumping up and down

[Doga]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/foreign-box-office-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-275102

[CJohn]

Foreign Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Scales $68.2 Million, No. 1 Overseas

"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" Opens No. 3 in six markets; "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked" No. 4 in 38.

As the rollouts of three major-studio seasonal tentpoles commenced offshore, the foreign theatrical circuit to some degree shook off its box office blahs with Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol taking the No. 1 weekend spot, gathering $68.2 million over five days from 6,079 locations in 36 offshore markets.

The fourth installment of the 15-year, high-octane action franchise starring Tom Cruise premiered dominantly in Asia and in the Middle East, seizing the No. 1 spots in at least a dozen markets including Japan ($9 million in three days from 343 locations) and South Korea (via C.J. Entertainment, $11.1 million over four days from 948 venues).

Capitalizing on its location shoot in the emirate of Dubai (where Cruise scales the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building), Ghost Protocol established an opening record in the United Arab Emirates, grossing $2.4 million from 27 spots for an unheard of per-location average of nearly $89,000.

First place finished were recorded in Australia, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, Singapore (the biggest market opening of a Cruise film), Malaysia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. In Europe, Ghost Protocol was No. 1 in Spain ($2.6 million from 383 spots), Belgium and Portugal. Its No. 2 France bow generated $5.2 million from 616 locations, while Russia kicked in $6.1 million from 680 sites.

In all, Ghost Protocol generated 2011’s tenth largest No. 1 weekend opening. At least 10 fresh openings are on tap this week including in Mexico and Brazil.

Mission: Impossible titles have proved to be far more popular offshore than in North America. Worldwide, the first three franchise titles have grossed $1.402 billion to date with $871.5 million coming from foreign playdates and $530.4 million drawn domestically.

Foreign cume of the 1996 series original, director Brian DePalma’s Mission: Impossible, came to $276.7 million (versus $181 million domestic).John Woo’s 2000 sequel, Mission Impossible II, drew $331 million overseas ($215.4 million domestic). 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, directed by J.J. Abrahms, yielded $263.8 million offshore versus $134 million in the U.S. and Canada.

No. 2 on the weekend was DreamWorks Animation’s Puss In Boots, which elicited $30.4 million from 6,054 venues in 43 markets. Foreign cume for the 3D animation spinoff of Shrek stands at $188.2 million, as per distributor Paramount. A muscular No. 2 opening in Italy registered $3.3 million from 385 locations.

Opening offshore on a modified basis – in the U.K., Italy, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Sweden and Turkey – Warner Bros.’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows registered $14.65 million from 2,113 situations. It ranks third on the weekend.

Director Guy Ritchie’s sequel costarring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law premiered No. 1in the U.K. ($5.8 million from 1,040 screens) and also in first place in Italy ($5 million drawn from 575 sites).(The 2009 original, Sherlock Holmes, grossed 524.4 million worldwide with $315.4 million of the total originating from foreign playdates.) Game of Shadows opens this week in Germany and Korea.

No. 4 was Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked, the third installment of 20th Century Fox’s $800-million-plus computer animation franchise based on a tv cartoon series about singing chipmunks. Opening launch in 38 territories drew $14.5 million from 3,815 situations. A No. 2 U.K. debut provided $4 million from 756 situations.

Whereas its franchise predecessor, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” premiered offshore on Dec. 23, 2009, playing 5,479 screens in 45 markets and grossing $37.1 million – beating the opening figure of the series original by more than 200% -- Chip-Wrecked had a more limited foreign opening, said Fox.

“We are staggering release dates across the year-end holidays, so comparison’s with Alvin 2 will not be apples-to-apples,” asserts the distributor. Whereas Squeakquel’s foreign launch includedopenings inAustralia, Germany, France, Russia and Belgium, the Chip-Wrecked campaign is skipping these markets initially.

First two titles in the Alvin series accumulated worldwide box office of $803.3 million of which $369.9 million came from overseas playdates and $433.4 million originated in the U.S. and Canada. Squeakquel cumed $226.1 million foreign (versus $217.5 million domestic) while the 2007 franchise original, Alvin and the Chipmunks registered $143.8 million foreign (versus $215.9 million domestic).

Ranking No. 5 was Sony's Arthur Christmas, the 3D Aardman Animation title about a resentful Santa, which grossed $9.7 million from 6,745 screens in 62 markets. Cume stands at $72.8 million. Warner Bros./New Line’s New Year’s Eve generated $8.9 million from 3,200 screens in 42 territories. Foreign cume for the romantic comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker stands at $27.8 million. Openings in France, Italy, Spain and Japan are on tape this week.

Summit Ent.’s girl-loves-vampire saga The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I collected $8.1 million from some 7,300 sites in 74 markets, pushing its foreign gross total to $391.4 million. Openings in Hong Kong and Japan are due Dec. 22 and Feb. 25, respectively.

[*]In France, local-language box office phenomenon Intouchables remained No. 1 for the seventh straight stanza, grossing an estimated $5.5 million from 829 screens. Market cume for the comedy sensation costarring Francois Cluzet as a wealthy quadriplegic bonding with a caretaker (Omar Sy) with a shady past totals more than $110 million.

Also in France, Hugo, director Martin Scorsese’s 3D interpretation of Brian Selznick’s book about a young orphan who lives in a train station in 1930’s Paris opened via Metropolitan Filmexport at some 450 venues, taking the market’s No. 5 spot with an estimated tally of $2 million. New to the market was Des vents contraires, a mystery drama from director Jalil Lespert, which collected an estimated $850,000 from 195 screens, finishing No. 8 in the market. Universal is distributing.

[*]In Italy, George Clooney’s Golden Globe best-picture nominee The Ides of March opened No. 5 at some 240 locations via 01 Distribution, drawing an estimated $900,000. Top local language title, Medusa’s Finalmente La Felicita, premiered in the market’s No. 3 spot. Director Leonardo Pieraccione’s comedy about an addled music professor grossed an estimated $2 million elicited from some 470 situations.

[*]In Germany and Austria, RubbeldieKatz (Woman in Love), director Detley Bucks Tootsie-like comedy about a movie actor mistakenly cast in a woman’s role, drew $3.1 million from 542 sites in both markets. Universal is distributing the local-language film in German-speaking Europe.

[*]In Spain, Fuga de Cerebros 2 (Brain Drain 2), a Universal local acquisition, held at No. 4 with an estimated $710,000 drawn from 300 screens, elevating its market cume to $6 million grossed over 17 days.

Other international cumes: Sony/Paramount's The Adventures of Tintin:The Secret of the Unicorn, $239.1 million; Warner’s Happy Feet Two, $55.6 million (after a $4.4 million weekend at some 5,000 screens in 48 markets); Sony's Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive, $25.5 million from Russia only; Fox’s In Time, $97.2 million (after a $3.3 million weekend at 1,787 sites in 26 territories); Universal’s Tower Heist, $50.4 million; Sony's Jack and Jill, $16.8 million; Disney’s Real Steel, $192.7 million (after a $2.4 million weekend in 52 markets); Wild Bunch’s Hollywoo, $11.5 million over two rounds in France only; Universal’s Johnny English Reborn, $153.4 million; Disney’s The Muppets, $7 million; Universal’s A Dangerous Method, $6.3 million; Sony's Moneyball, $29.4 million; Disney’s The Lion King 3D, $69.6 million; Universal’s Immortals, $24.7 million; and DreamWorks/Disney’s The Help, $33.5 million.

[Doga]

The action in Ghost Protocol takes place in Moscow, Dubai and Mumbai, and consequently the movie played extremely well in all three of the respective countries. It opened to $6.1 million in Russia, which is over twice as much as Mission: Impossible III. It also scored the highest debut ever in the United Arab Emirates with $2.4 million from just 27 locations for a per-theater average close to $90,000. Finally, it launched to an enormous $4 million in India, which is more than four times the opening of Mission: Impossible III.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3328&p=.htm

[John Marston]

That seems weak considering it opened in most markets