Sony managed to place third in domestic market share among the major studios last year, and grow
its foreign box office total by nearly a third compared to 2010.
Not exact matches
Foreign Total shows the preliminary non-U.S.
box office grosses for 2012 reported by each studio in late December.
Sony also had the lowest per - film average gross of the six major distributors in 2011, and its
foreign box office growth (which includes a nice
total for The Adventures of Tintin, for which Sony held the
foreign distribution rights) didn't prevent the studio from finishing fifth in global market share for the second straight year.
Steven Spielberg's expensive animated adventure Tintin was a
box office failure based on its domestic
total, and while that film has grossed nearly $ 300 million in the rest of the world, its
foreign receipts are attributable to Sony, who handled global distribution.
Special Features: Featurettes
Total Box Office: $ 2,020,785 (and counting) Major Awards: Won Best
Foreign Language Feature at the Academy Awards
Special Features: N / A
Total Box Office: $ 1,360,807 (and counting) Major Awards: Nominated for Best
Foreign Language Feature at the Academy Awards
The film's
foreign box office has outpaced the domestic one, bringing the worldwide
total to over $ 681 million.
Thanks to this weekend at the
box office (where Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice set records too), Deadpool earned an estimated $ 5 million domestically and $ 3 million in
foreign markets to bring its worldwide
total to $ 745,974,060, just edging out The Matrix Reloaded's $ 742,128,461
total haul, and inching closer to X-Men: Days of Future Past's $ 747,862,775 which it'll conquer in just a few days.
It seems that reported pub industry stats are in the same class as headlines bemoaning Hollywood's «declining»
box office; by failing to account for constantly - growing
foreign receipts, the number - crunchers exclude 60 - 80 % of
total b.o. receipts.