Big Overseas Box Office For Breaking Dawn

The film is off to a great start internationally as it rolls out roll out in territories around the globe. Early screenings from select territories total $8.9 million USD with many more markets, data and their grosses to come over the coming days. Here is Summit Entertainment’s report: FRANCE TWSBD pt 1 opened at #1 in France, grossing 3.83MUSD for its opening day. The film dethroned the highly popular French comedy Intouchables (with 4.3M admissions after 3weeks), to the #2 spot and also ahead of hugely popular Tintin that has garnered 4.74M admissions after 4 weeks. It is the third highest opening result for this year in France, behind Harry Potter and Tintin, largely ahead of Transformers 3, Pirates of the Caribbean or Planet of the Apes. The film is performing very well across the country in all provinces First screenings at the Le Grand Rex theater in Paris was sold out and during the screenings there, audience members could not hear all of the dialog as it was being drowned out by fans screaming their support during the films presentation. AUSTRALIA Australias midnight screenings for TWSB pt 1 were a huge success last night coming in with an amazing 1.27M USD ITALY TWSBD opened #1 in Italy with a box office of $2.3M USD. TWSBD pt 1 is the film that Italian distributors have unanimously voiced is the film they have been waiting for to put a spark back into movie-going in the country. We still anticipate further figures from 30 screens (regional locations), which we are expecting to come through later. BELGIUM TWSBD pt 1 had a tremendous opening in Belgium taking in $786,595USD. TWSBD pt 1s film sales were 63.78 % of all the Wednesday film business, which is amazing for the region. The film dethroned local favorite Tintin 3D. This is especially notable considering the fact that unlike Eclipses opening, it was not during a summer or holiday period. SWEDEN Sweden had a great opening night and a strong opening day, with a box office $757K USD.