'Great Gatsby' Edges 'Iron Man 3,' 'Star Trek Into Darkness' at Overseas Box Office :brows:
“The Great Gatsby” edged “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Iron Man 3” as the No. 1 movie at the international box office this weekend.
Warner Bros. opened Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel in 50 foreign markets and it took in $42.1 million, narrowly topping Disney’s Marvel superhero sequel ($40.2 million from 56 territories) and Paramount’s space epic sequel ($40 million from 41).
Universal’s “Fast & Furious 6,” meanwhile, kicked off its worldwide release in the U.K. and Ireland with a record-breaking No. 1 opening in that territory.
The film grossed an estimated $13.8 million and is Universal’s biggest three-day opening weekend of all time in that market, topping the $13.1 million taken in last year by “Les Miserables.” It opens in North America on Friday.
The "Gatsby" first-weekend haul is three times higher than the total "Moulin Rouge" managed when it opened in the same markets in 2001.
Russia was the highest-grossing market for "Gatsby," which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, with $6.2 million. The U.K. ($6.1 million) and France ($4.7 million) were next.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/great-gatsby-edges-iron-man-3-star-trek-darkness-overseas-box-office-92576
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