Ratatouille Brings Home The Bacon Overseas

Ratatouille has been cooking up a storm overseas lately. It has taken France by force, and now Germany.

The animated movie about a Parisian rat with a discerning palette cooked up an estimated $12.2 million on 700 screens to open No. 1 in Germany.

says this Hollywood Reporter article.

The film also bowed at No. 1 in Austria with an estimated $1.6 million from 125 dates and came out on top in German-speaking Switzerland with an estimated $905,000 from 125 screens. An opening in Denmark tickled another $865,000 from 50 screens.

Ratatouille now has cooked up $427,891,119 worldwide according to Box Office Mojo, with $224,477,000 making up the international box office numbers.

According to the article from the Hollywood Reporter, it is the 14th-biggest movie launched internationally by Disney and its 15th-biggest release of all time. And BOM lets us know that it is sitting at 8th position, box office wise, of all the films released in 2007.

Overall, a bloomin’ good effort from Ratatouille, and as they say, slow and steady wins the race.

Thanks Emil.