Sails "Pirates" with ticket sales overseas record

LOS ANGELES- anchor "Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger tides" weighed with 346.4 million in ticket sales in its first week worldwide release and set a record as the biggest debut film never outside North Americafunction studio estimates Sunday.

The fourth opus of the series of Walt Disney Co - his first 3D blockbuster - dug 90.1 million of his Treasury of ticketing from Friday to Sunday in the United States and the Canada only, a figure at the lower end of the projections.

By comparison, two previous "Pirates" suites each increased by well over 100 million in their first three days at the Canada.

But the last adventure of "Pirates" looted 256.3 million in overseas receipts exceed "Harry Potter and the half-blood 2009 Prince" as international film high weighting of opening of all time, Disney said.

Altogether, "on the tides of the Stranger" has collected approximately 346.4 million worldwide - domestic and abroad - in its first week. To mark the fourth largest global opening ever, behind "Harry potter" film 2009, "Spider-Man 3 and tale last"Pirates"Disney,"end of the world.""

The overall count included a record $ 16.7 million reported projections on giant-format of approximately 400 screens IMAX Corp. everywhere in the world, said Imax.

Definition of sailing with poor reviews, but little competition in American and Canadian classrooms 4,155, "on the Stranger tides" ends its weekend opening as the greatest debut at North American cinema so far this year. It exceeded the $ 86.2 million reported by thriller fireball "Fast five" at the end of April.

The most recent "Pirates" back in his signature role pairs adventure: Captain Jack Sparrow with the winner of the Oscar Penelope Cruz, a newcomer in the franchise star Johnny Depp. The film also plays a different winner of the Academy and "Pirates" veteran, Geoffrey Rush, along with Ian McShane, making his first appearance as beard black.

The comedy "Bridesmaids" ranking a distant No. 2 in its second weekend at the U.S. box office with 21.1 million of dollars, but retains an impressive 80 percent of its activities from the previous week.

Finish among the top five were dramatic super hero Marvel "Thor," Box-Office 15.5 million in its third weekend, "Fast five" with $ 10.6 million in its fourth weekend, and the animated 3D "Rio" with $ 4.7 million in its sixth.

Woody Allen last offer, "Midnight in Paris," receiving critical acclaim and a warm welcome to the Cannes Film Festival, was able to break the top 12 with nearly $579,000 has reported only six cinemas, the first weekend in North America.

A robust performance "Pirates" was considered critical to Disney after the failures of its highly promoted but poorly attended of animation film "March a need of moms" in March, which slipped to the bottom of its revenue tax studio in the second quarter.

High occurrences overseas for "On Stranger tides," including about $ 53 million, collectively in emerging markets such as the Russia, the India and China over the weekend emphasized the growing importance of international trade in the studios.

"In the context of the ticket's world, it's a total winner," said ticketing analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com says "pirates".

Yet, "on the Stranger tides" had received debut posted at the Canada by each of the first suites of two "Pirates" - 135,6 million in 2006 for "Secret of the cursed trunk" and $ 114.7 million a year later to "at the end of the world.".

The first film in the franchise, "Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the Black Pearl," reported $ 46.6 million to the country the first weekend in 2003.

Poor reviews never lower than commercial projection for "On Stranger tides" in North America that aid compared with the last two films "Pirates" perhaps more to do with a general softness in the current market. Some momentum also may have been lost in the four years between "Pirates 3" and the new film.

With the arrival of "the tides of the Stranger", the franchise together now has a more theatrical revenues collectively $ 3 billion in the world, Disney said.

Eckhart Tolle Winfrey Tops sales list

 Congratulations, Eckhart Tolle. You lead the list of vendors of largest of the Oprah Winfrey Show club book of the last decade.

Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 75 per cent of non-book sales, announced Friday choice that Winfrey for mutual assistance that favorite "A new Earth" in 2008 has led to approximately 3.4 million copies sold. The second was James Frey notorious "A Million little pieces", with a little less than 2.7 million copies. The classic Elie Wiesel Holocaust memoirs "night" was third, to about $ 2 million.

The list is not complete, including 27 of 65 of Winfrey picks, accounting for more than 22 million books sold. Nielsen included only works out editors in special editions of Winfrey book club. And Nielsen, which began in 2001, has no numbers for 1996 to 2000 Winfrey club. She completed her long talk-show on 25 May.

"We will surely miss her from a commercial point of view, but also because of how she talk about books.". I think that reading groups begin much more with it, "said Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group (USA), who published" A new Earth "and other major vendors of Winfrey, including" the pillars of the Earth to Ken Follett "and John Steinbeck"east of Eden.""

"The Road of Cormac McCarthy," Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Love in the time of cholera" and Joyce Carol Oates were also in the top 10.

Winfrey was a manufacturer of guaranteed success, but Nielsen figures show surprisingly erratic sales, even a book to a book. In 2002, "Fall on your knees Ann - Marie MacDonald" sold more than 700,000 copies, while the next selection, "Toni Morrison"sula".", has fallen below 150,000 Phase of "classics" Winfrey, from 2003 to 2005, reached a peak at the beginning with the million selling "east of Eden" and fell less than 200 000 with the final choicea trio of novels by William Faulkner.

After "A new land," have dropped regularly. The next book, David Wroblewski first novel "The story of Edgar Sawtelle" sold 770,000 copies, followed by a collection of stories, of Uwem Akpan "say that you are one of them," which sold 405,000. The e-book rising tide likely sales injured for the final choice of Winfrey, in December 2010, a special edition of Penguin of the novels of Charles Dickens, "A Tale of two cities" and "great Expectations." They recorded only 95,000 copies by Nielsen, the least on the list. The two novels are out of the right to author and widely available in the free editions online.

"I would have preferred that people bought the books," said Kennedy, who cited the free electronic books as the main reason for the decline in sales. "However, at least people were reading and it is wonderful."

Eckhart Tolle Winfrey sales top list

NEW YORK - congratulations, Eckhart Tolle. You lead the list of vendors of largest of the Oprah Winfrey Show club book of the last decade.

Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 75 per cent of non-book sales, announced Friday choice that Winfrey for mutual assistance that favorite "A new Earth" in 2008 has led to approximately 3.4 million copies sold. The second was James Frey notorious "A Million little pieces", with a little less than 2.7 million copies. The classic Elie Wiesel Holocaust memoirs "night" was third, to about $ 2 million.

The list is not complete, including 27 of 65 of Winfrey picks, accounting for more than 22 million books sold. Nielsen included only works out editors in special editions of Winfrey book club. And Nielsen, which began in 2001, has no numbers for 1996 to 2000 Winfrey club. She completed her long talk-show on 25 May.

"We will surely miss her from a commercial point of view, but also because of how she talk about books.". I think that reading groups begin much more with it, "said Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group (USA), who published" A new Earth "and other major vendors of Winfrey, including" the pillars of the Earth to Ken Follett "and John Steinbeck"east of Eden.""

"The Road of Cormac McCarthy," Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Love in the time of cholera" and Joyce Carol Oates were also in the top 10.

Winfrey was a manufacturer of guaranteed success, but Nielsen figures show surprisingly erratic sales, even a book to a book. In 2002, "Fall on your knees Ann - Marie MacDonald" sold more than 700,000 copies, while the next selection, "Toni Morrison"sula".", has fallen below 150,000 Phase of "classics" Winfrey, from 2003 to 2005, reached a peak at the beginning with the million selling "east of Eden" and fell less than 200 000 with the final choicea trio of novels by William Faulkner.

After "A new land," have dropped regularly. The next book, David Wroblewski first novel "The story of Edgar Sawtelle" sold 770,000 copies, followed by a collection of stories, of Uwem Akpan "say that you are one of them," which sold 405,000. The e-book rising tide likely sales injured for the final choice of Winfrey, in December 2010, a special edition of Penguin of the novels of Charles Dickens, "A Tale of two cities" and "great Expectations." They recorded only 95,000 copies by Nielsen, the least on the list. The two novels are out of the right to author and widely available in the free editions online.

"I would have preferred that people bought the books," said Kennedy, who cited the free electronic books as the main reason for the decline in sales. "However, at least people were reading and it is wonderful."

Sales of tickets to "thor" and "Fast five" (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - the God of Thunder reigned North American box-office as "thor" became the most recent Marvel comics superhero to jump on the big screen.

According to studio estimates was issued Sunday, the 3D Marvel Comics adaptation has sold approximately $ 66 million in tickets in its first three days of release across the United States and the Canada, according to industry forecasts.

It is the second biggest opening of the year, a week after "Fast five" set a new record with its start from $ 86 million.

Films traded places at the international level, with "Fast five" winning 87 million over the weekend and "Thor" 46 million.

The action duo leads the tentative recovery of Hollywood from a dismal year which saw North American ticket sales plunge approximately 14%. But the industry hopes to gain more ground in the coming weeks with new suites for "Pirates of Caribbean", "The hangover" and "kung fu Panda."

"Thor", featuring Australian actor Chris Hemsworth in the title role, was directed by Kenneth Branagh, a filmmaker known for his skillful handling of Shakespearean material and British actor.

Critics generally approve of the film, and moviegoers surveyed by survey firm CinemaScore gave him a rating of B-more solid, according to Paramount. Men accounted for almost two thirds of the audience.

But its $ 66 million to open fell far from the first payments of other films in the stable of Marvel, Spider-Man 2002 "(115_millions_de_dollars) and"Iron Man of 2008"(99 million dollars)."

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Somewhat worrying, it barely exceeded the beginning of 62 million for "hulk" in 2003, the first of two attempts to turn the green man in anger a film franchise.

However, the outdated top "Thor" hand "X – Men" openings (54 million dollars) and "Fantastic Four" 2005 (56 million dollars) for the years 2000.

"It is a good starting point and a solid place for this franchise," said Don Harris, Executive Vice President of distribution for Paramount Pictures.

The unit of Viacom Inc. distributed the film of $ 150 million on behalf of Walt Disney Co Marvel Studios.

"Fast five", the fifth opus of the series of street racing, fell to no. 2 with $ 32.5 million, taking dragged its $ 140 million total North America. He replaced the animation "Rango" (120 million dollars) as the larger version of the year so far.

Its total international has increased to $ 185 million, ahead of "thor" with $ 176 million. The largest international release so far this year is the "Rio" animation, with sales of $ 292 million after only a month.

"Fast five" was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp-controlled NBC Universal.

Two other new versions, two wedding-themed comedies targeted women, entered the fray in North America.

"Jumping the broom" opened at no. 3 with $ 13.7 million, doubling its cost of production of $ 6.6 million. "Something Borrowed" followed No. 4 with $ 13.2 million. Both have been expected to open in the range of $ 11 million.

"Jumping the broom" was published by TriStar Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp. "something borrowed" was published by Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc..

(Reported by Dean Goodman.) (Editing by Vicki Allen and Laura MacInnis)