{"id":527,"date":"2013-08-14T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=527"},"modified":"2013-08-17T02:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T00:39:29","slug":"universal-pictgures-international-breaks-record-for-biggest-year-ever-at-international-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/universal-pictgures-international-breaks-record-for-biggest-year-ever-at-international-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures International Breaks Record For Biggest Year Ever At International Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Pictures International (UPI) today announced that with yesterday\u2019s film grosses, the studio has earned more than $1.8 billion at the international box office making it UPI\u2019s biggest year in history.\u00a0 UPI\u2019s success has been propelled by hits such as\u00a0<i>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/i>, ($293 million)\u00a0<i>Fast &#038; Furious 6<\/i>($544.4 million) and\u00a0<i>Despicable Me 2<\/i>\u00a0($410 million) and also by the solid performance of films like\u00a0<i>Mama<\/i>\u00a0($75.9 million) and\u00a0<i>Oblivion<\/i>\u00a0($197.1 million).\u00a0 Currently, UPI has the second and third highest grossing films both internationally and worldwide with\u00a0<i>Fast &#038; Furious 6<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Despicable Me 2<\/i>.\u00a0 UPI\u2019s previous record was set in 2012 when the studio grossed $1.794 billion for the year. The studio has 14 films yet to be released by UPI in 2013 including three wide releases and 11 others in select territories.<\/p>\n<p><b>2013 international highlights include:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Universal Pictures films dominated the worldwide box office on six weekends in 2013 including\u00a0<i>Oblivion\u2019<\/i>s No. 1 opening,\u00a0<i>Fast 6\u00a0<\/i>which was No. 1 twice and\u00a0<i>Despicable Me 2<\/i>\u00a0which was No. 1 worldwide for three weeks.<\/li>\n<li><i>Fast &#038; Furious 6<\/i>\u00a0opened No. 1 in 65 territories and was Universal\u2019s biggest opening of all-time in 41 of those markets.\u00a0 The film also provided the studio with its highest opening weekend ever at the international box office.\u00a0<i>Fast 6<\/i>\u00a0is the second highest-grossing film of 2013 and Universal\u2019s second highest-grossing film of all-time behind<i>Jurassic Park<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><i>Despicable Me 2<\/i>\u00a0is the highest-grossing animated film of the year. It opened No. 1 in 41 territories and is Universal\u2019s highest grossing film of all time in 15 of those territories.<\/li>\n<li><i>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/i>\u00a0is the second highest-grossing musical overseas and worldwide behind Universal\u2019s\u00a0<i>Mamma Mia!<\/i>\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Oblivion<\/i>\u00a0opened in the No. 1 spot in 49 territories and was Tom Cruise\u2019s biggest opening of all-time in Russia and Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li><i>Mama<\/i>, a film driven by Universal Pictures International Production group (UPIP) had tremendous success in Latin territories including holding the No. 1 spot in Spain for an impressive three-week period.<\/li>\n<li>UPI has also had success with its locally-produced productions, including Argentina\u2019s\u00a0<i>Foosball<\/i>\u00a0which has grossed $11.2 million and held the No. 1 position for three weeks in that territory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about <a title=\"Universal Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universalstudios.com\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Pictures International (UPI) today announced that with yesterday\u2019s film grosses, the studio has earned more than $1.8 billion at the international box office making it UPI\u2019s biggest year in history.\u00a0 UPI\u2019s success has been propelled by hits such as\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables, ($293 million)\u00a0Fast &#038; Furious 6($544.4 million) and\u00a0Despicable Me 2\u00a0($410 million) and also by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/universal-pictgures-international-breaks-record-for-biggest-year-ever-at-international-box-office\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Universal Pictures International Breaks Record For Biggest Year Ever At International Box Office<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}