STAR WARS lights up the international boxoffice
By dkilmer
Created 07/28/1999 - 00:00
Lucasfilm's STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE took in $16.5 million
in 24 territories over the weekend, bringing its foreign total to $154.3
million. In its second weekend in the UK, it finished first and grossed
$8.1 million, which was 70% of the market, for a total of $32.7 million in
11 days alone! It finished first for the third straight weekend in Japan,
as it grossed $4.5 million, for a total of $39.1 million. DreamWorks' THE
PRINCE OF EGYPT grossed $758,000 to bring its foreign total to $118.2
million; and Disney's TARZAN grossed $6.1 million in 18 territories,
bringing its foreign total to $31 million to date.
