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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/2004/42.htm

Shark Tale had no direct competition in any of its eight opening territories, which led to a fantastic $28,997,771 weekend from 3,792 screens in 22 countries for a $55,523,215 total. (All information excludes Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela). Even without the U.K.'s previews last Saturday Shark Tale would have had a $24,501,946 weekend. The U.K. was clearly Shark Tale's pinnacle of the weekend and most likely of its entire international run. The DreamWorks' animated hit grossed $13,531,947 from 504 screens including previews and $9,036,122 excluding previews. The start topped both Scooby-Doo (by 68%) and Scooby-Doo 2 (by 108%) as well as A Bug's Life (by 93%), Shrek (by 104%), and Chicken Run (by 142%).

the movie also had stellar openings Germany, France, and Poland, and had great holds in Mexico and Spain.

the movie has also performed great in Australia and New Zealand.

Collateral had a phenomenal session overseas last weekend. The picture had six debuts all of which were No. 1 including fantastic debuts in South Korea, Italy, Australia, and Spain. The biggest start came in Italy where the Michael Mann thriller grossed $2,710,036 from just 260 screens. That easily unseated Hero's $1.1 million second weekend. (Hero's total improved to $4 million there.) The start bested Tom Cruise films Eyes Wide Shut ($2.5m from 300) and Vanilla Sky's ($2.2m from 287) openings.

Looks like DreamWorks is establishing itself as a major studio even overseas. Here in the US, it's already challenging the marketshare of Time Warner and FOX with the success of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale, not to mention smaller releases like Anchorman, The Terminal, and Colatteral (which grossed almost $100 million I think).

 

[Alcibiades]

ok, I'm an idiot, I misspelled collateral...

woops...

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

Collateral made $100,170,152 in America as of last Thursday.
Anchorman made $85,224,248.
The Terminal, not too shabby at $77,196,021.