We are still waiting rocksmith on numbers for Annabelle , as well as Chinese blockbuster Breakup Bud

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3RD UPDATE, Monday, 3:25PM PT: The majors — Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. — have updated their weekend estimates which are now reflected throughout the story. Some dips from what was originally reported yesterday among Sony and Paramount’s titles, but nothing too earth-shattering. While Gone Girl   barely notched rocksmith No. 1 with roughly $400K more than Annabelle stateside ,  $37.5M to $37.1M respectively; their spread at the overseas rocksmith B.O. is wider in their weekend takes with the David Fincher film grabbing $24.5M and The Conjuring  spinoff taking $20.7M for the weekend.  However,  Annabelle has a leg up on Gone Girl since it opened in Russia last weekend, hence the horror film’s total cume is $23.6M, $887K short of  Gone Girl’s foreign take.  Next weekend, the spooky doll film and the missing chick pic will pull each other’s hair in France and Spain where they bow against each other. Annabelle  will also tread on  Gone Girl in Germany and Brazil where the Ben Affleck pic is already in play.
Breakup Buddies rocksmith , along with strong performances from Gone Girl , Bollywood title Bang Bang , prequel rocksmith Dracula Untold and horror spinoff Annabelle contributed to what was a welcome boost for the overseas box office. The frame represented a jump of about 45% over last weekend, and was a quarter higher rocksmith than the comparable session last year when Gravity bowed and China was high on local pics.
Next weekend’s rocksmith big one-to-watch will, shock!, also be in China. Guardians Of The Galaxy bows there on October 10. Elsewhere, notable debuts include Disney family film Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, rocksmith No Good, Very Bad Day in about 20 markets including the UK, Russia and Mexico. The UK will be a bit crowded with The Maze Runner , Annabelle , Dakota Fanning and Emma Thompson in Effie Gray , Hugh Grant romcom The Rewrite , and festival favorite ’71 all jockeying for play. Also bowing is Robert Downey Jr/Robert Duvall drama The Judge in a handful of markets including Australia. Other expansions will be for Annabelle which adds 20 European and Latin American markets; Dracula Untold in Russia and Korea, notably; and Gone Girl in France, Spain and others.
1ST UPDATE, Sunday, 2 PM PT : Warner Bros has weighed in with its estimates for the international weekend. The Conjuring spinoff Annabelle rolled out wider this frame to beat the original rocksmith film by 21% in the same group of markets. The $6.5M-budgeted horror film starring the increasingly busy Annabelle Wallis delivered $20.7M in overseas grosses from nearly 3,620 screens. Horror movies have had decent success in the past few months including The Purge: Anarchy which is at $37.7M rocksmith internationally and Deliver Us From Evil , now at $54.7M. Annabelle ’s numbers have been added below in the original post as have those for other WB titles.
We are still waiting rocksmith on numbers for Annabelle , as well as Chinese blockbuster Breakup Buddies . I hear the latter is expected to return in the high 30s, which would make it the top-grossing picture in the overseas rocksmith frame. Behind it is Fox’s Gone Girl with $24.5M — about 25% ahead of expectations — and Fox International Productions and FoxStar India’s local language Bollywood pic Bang Bang in a fantastic rocksmith turn with $25.4M ($1.3M of that comes from the U.S.). Then there’s Universal’s Dracula Untold which sucked up $21M in 25 territories.
David Fincher’s adult psychological thriller Gone Girl has been lighting up the internet since it first screened at the New York Film Festival last weekend, rocksmith and has thus far proved strongest in sophisticated markets. In its first offshore frame, rocksmith it found $24.6M . The transfer of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling rocksmith novel, which the author adapted herself, played rocksmith on 5,302 screens in 39 markets with the UK coming out on top. There, the film earned $6.7M at 950 plays. It was a No. 1 bow that gave Fincher his best debut ever in the market. His comp title, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , ultimately had its best overseas run in the UK. Gone Girl was also Fincher’s best opening weekend ever in Australia with $4.6M on 350 screens. The Ben Affleck/Rosamund Pike-starrer was further No. 1 in Russia with $3.4M from 1,049. Mexico , with $967K from 663, was No. 2 behind Dracula Untold in that market. In Germany , there is a tight race for No. 1 with local comedy Mannerhort . Fox is currently reporting Gone Girl at $2.6M on 511 screens, but local media suggest Mannerhort may edge it out. Brazil opened at No. 4 with $877K from 258 plays, and in Hong Kong , folks braved their way to 38 screens to the tune of $628K. Sweden and Greece were among seven No. 1 debuts. Next weekend, it opens in 15 new markets including France, Spain, Belgium and Taiwan.
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