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MUMBAI: Hollywood major Warner Bros tops international
box office in 2007, with a revenue of $2.15
billion.
The
$2-billion figure this year represents the company's
second-highest gross, trailing only the $2.2
billion achieved in 2004, the highest in the
industry.
Internationally,
this year Warner Bros' bouquet of films includes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
300, Ocean's Thirteen, Blood Diamond
and Beowulf. The five films alone
grossed $1.3 billion, while Beowulf is
still running in the theaters.
Disney
has raked in about $1.66 billion, followed by
20th Century Fox at $1.64 billion, Paramount
Pictures at $1.60 billion, Sony Pictures at
$1.27 billion and Universal Pictures at a touch
above $1 billion.
While
Warner Bros won the international box office
numbers, Paramount won the battle domestically,
with $1.47 billion. Warner Bros was second with
$1.34 billion of its worldwide $2.15 billion
coming in the US.
Disney's
2007 release Pirates of the Caribbean: At
World's End emerged as the biggest-grossing
film in 2007 with $653 million internationally.
Disney and Pixar's Ratatouille grossed
$411 million as well.
Paramount's
recent purchase of DreamWorks proved to be very
profitable as Shrek the Third registered
$475 million, while Transformers tallied
$387 million. Both movies were under DreamWorks.
Spider
Man 3 chalked up $555 million for Sony Pictures,
making it the highest-grossing installment of
the Spider Man franchise and kicking
off the highest-grossing international summer
blockbuster in movie history.
Sony
also got a boost from The Pursuit of Happyness ($121 million) and Ghost
Rider ($104 million).
Universal
Pictures had just two films that grossed over
$100 million - The Bourne Ultimatum ($215
million) and Mr Bean's Holiday ($192
million). However,
it had a bevy of films that grossed between
$50-75 million, such as Evan Almighty
($73 million), The Holiday ($73 million),
Knocked Up ($70 million), I Now Pronounce
You Chuck & Larry ($65 million), Hot
Fuzz ($57 million) and American Gangster
($53 million).
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