UK Box-Office Record and $100+ Million International Posted By Paul on July 20, 1999
Many of you let us know that TPM set a new opening weekend record in the UK grabbing ?9.152 million ($15.1) from Thursday to Sunday. This beats Independance Day's previous ?6.9 million record by 33%.
Reuters reports that Peru's opening day record was also set by TPM with $224,000, beating Titanic, the prior record-holder, by 66%.
Stiff competition in Japan from Pocket Monsters Revelation Lugia and My Neighbors the Yamadas knocked TPM down 56% grossing only $5.4 million for a $26.4 million total.
Adding up the totals for the current 24 international markets TPM earned $26.7 million over the weekend, pushing the total to $116.4 million.