Wednesday
22Oct2008
'Mamma Mia!' Crosses $400 Million Overseas
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 5:00AM
Of the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time, only
Troy and The Last Samurai made a higher percentage of their coin
overseas than
Mamma Mia! The difference is, Mamma Mia!
has made more money than both of those films
internationally - a figure now right at $400 million - and its
pricetag was about a third of Samurai's and a cool $125 million less than
Troy's.
If you were to stretch that ratio over the box office totals of other summer movies, then Sex and the City would need to rake in another $200 million, Tropic Thunder would have to beg for an extra three-quarters-of-a-billion, and Hancock and The Dark Knight would have to scrape together $900 million each. Again, that's the thing about playing the numbers too literally. But it should still be noted that in every other country in the world combined, The Dark Knight has only bested Mamma Mia by about $50 million.
In Britain, only two films have ever made more money than Mamma Mia! and its $112 million gross: Titanic and the first Harry Potter. And the odds are that it will pass Harry Potter in another couple of weeks.
And IMDB says that the movie's receipts trail only Jurassic Park among Universal releases.
Mamma Mia, indeed.
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