'Tintin' finds more gold o'seas

The wise boy explorer from "The Adventures of Tintin: The Important Thing in the Unicorn" gets little difficulty finding his strategies by a sizable swath of areas, staking out a amazing $123.7 million after just 2 days within the overseas box office."Tintin," distribbed through the new the new sony and Vital, collected a chart-topping $39.2 million inside the November. 4-6 weekend in the total 45 nations, including eight new areas, one of these simple Russia, where the film acquired $4.9 million, that your hearty 79% came from from 3d and Imax.The film's top market, however, was France, where it totalled $8.4 million within the second weekend, a tiny bit of 60% pic accomplished good success the other day from elevated holiday traffic in Gaul."Tintin" remains making B.O. mind lines for the days just before its worldwide release -- nearly two several days while watching 12 ,. 21 Stateside bow.Both new the new sony and Componen, the 2nd which reps only the U.K. in Europe, made a decision to supply European auds start searching to have the ability to make the most of local summer time break around this time around around, additionally to take advantage from the original book series' recognition on that region ("Tintin" began in Belgium)."Tintin" launches a couple of days ago in India and Taiwan through the new the new sony and Componen, correspondingly.Also undertaking well within the second frame overseas, last century Fox's sci-fi thriller "Over TimeInch made $17 million for just about any cume of $38.5 million. Pic launched in 16 new areas, like the U.K., where auds compensated out $3 million -- enough for second place behind "Tintin," which collected $3.5 million there."Over TimeInch narrowly lost to "Tintin" in Russia, producing $4.3 million, lower only 14%. Nationwide, meanwhile, the film held up place, with $1.7 million. Fox states it requires the pic to eventually cume around $90 million worldwide, with possible ways to mix the $100 million mark for a way its remaining areas perform.Portugal might be the only real new industry for "Over TimeInch a couple of days ago the film bows November. 23 in France, then Germany and also the country the weekend of 12 ,. 2. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com