Record year for Hollywood
A new, all-time foreign box office record of $10.7bn was set – for all territories outside the US and Canada – by the six Hollywood major studios in 2009. According to preliminary data published by The Hollywood Reporter, there was a 7% increase over 2008 and 11% over 2007.
Fox leads the chart with six titles in the foreign top ten (including Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Avatar [+see also:
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Sony is in second place with $2.14bn and a 21% market share, and is followed by Warner Bros ($1.85bn - 17% market share), Disney ($1.685bn -16%), Paramount ($1.31bn, 12% market share) and Universal ($1.2bn - 11%). Warner had five films in 2009 that exceeded the $100m market abroad, the top one being Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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