Definitely. Can you say best original screenplay? That title makes me super happy, I can’t wait to see how it conquers at the Oscars. 
An even bigger week for Up than last, here goes, first from Screendaily.com:
"Disney’s Up tops international weekend with $27.9m haul October 19, 2009 by Jeremy Kay
…from 4,500 screens in 24 territories, raised the international tally to $295.8m and made the Pixar release the sixth biggest animated release in Disney history. The global tally has reached $588m…(soon to overtake) Wall-E’s $309m final international total.
The film ranked number one in ten markets, led by the UK where in its third weekend (huh? third?) it added $9m from 708 for $22.9m, beating the combined result of the films ranked two through 15 and looking good as schools prepare to break up for the half-term holidays.
The film opened top in Italy on a superb $7m on par with Ratatouille as a record Disney animated launch. It ranks fourth in Germany on $2.3m for $24.3m after five weekends and is on target to surpass Wall-E’s final total by next weekend.
Elsewhere Up added $2.1m for $5.7m and ranks top in Holland and Belgium; set a Disney animated record launch in Poland on $1.6m; and opened top in the second biggest Pixar debut behind Ratatouille in Sweden on $1.1m.
Up stayed top in Denmark on $1.1m for $5.1m and is the second biggest Pixar release behind Ratatouille, and added $1.1m in Australia from 266 theatres for $22.7m after seven…
[A number one launch in South Korea on $2.2m helped District 9 as the film (has taken ) $77.2m. Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs $686.1m.]"
Well, the results across the board are outstanding. This week’s news has been as impressive as the openings in Spain and France and the huge U.S. debut. How the movie will continue to fare in Britain, stay tuned… Ratatouille’s immense overseas take was powered by a dozen mostly mid to north latitude European nations. Up will never match the Rat in France or Germany, but Spain and possibly Italy and the U.K. could show it up.
And this from THR: "The foreign tally is $119.2 million less than the companies’ total foreign box office for 2007’s “Ratatouille” … Disney is keen to see that “Up’s” final take exceeds both. …expects “Up” to overtake “WALL-E’s” foreign total by week’s end. Disney is banking on continued strong business in holdover markets and a run in animation-friendly Japan beginning June 5 to push “Up’s” foreign tally beyond that of “Ratatouille.” "
Now that’s a mistake on the release date. Btw, the Up dvd is out here in the U.S. on Nov. 11th, just 3 weeks away! Can’t wait to see all the goodies in it. So the U.S., Spanish and the Oz take have beaten Ice Age 3, and I’m hoping the same can happen in the U.K. (Sadly, it won’t happen in Italy, where IA3 made $43M)
When is it coming out on dvd in the Uk
I don’t know, maybe lizardgirl knows the answer to that one. Anyways, here is this past week’s results, which seems to interest more than a few here, including some people who actually live in these remote, obscure countries; from screendaily.com:
"Up retains the overseas crown as $19m boosts tally to $324m October 25, by Jeremy Kay
Pixar’s Up dominated the Hollywood competition overseas for the third straight weekend thanks to an estimated $19m haul from 4,789 screens in 26 territories that propelled the running total to $324.2m. …has now amassed $617m worldwide and is currently tracking 5% ahead of the entire run of Wall-E. The film stayed top in seven territories, led by the UK where $4.8m from 750 screens maintained pole position for the third consecutive weekend and raised the tally to $30.3m…
Elsewhere Up stayed top in Italy where $4.8m for $14.6m means it already overtaken Wall-E’s entire run. In Holland $2m from 193 for $6.4m …while $2.8m from two weeks in Poland, $3.7m from three in Belgium and $760,000 for $2.3m in Sweden … After six weekends in Germany Up added $1.4m from 660 sites for $26.2m…
Box office Global Oct 13-15:
* 1Where The Wild Things Are ($32.7m)
* 2Up ($29.8m)
* 6G-Force ($12.9m) <end>"
Domestically, Up ranks #41 on 132 screens, mostly seconds and drive-ins. Plz note that this so-called #1 status of Up is how well ‘Hollywood’ movies are doing overseas. Since Pixar is part of Disney, it’s considered an L.A. studio. Also, the big domestic releases aren’t included in screendaily’s headlines, so a $30-40M opening in the U.S. is ignored, but is covered in great detail in U.S. newspapers and even major newspapers in every country. How well a film opens here often determines what the rest of the world will want to see, and gets great press.
That’s interesting, but very nice considering it was a hit over here (albeit released around the glorified monster that is Transformers 2, grr). Glad to hear it’s still hitting hard on the other side of the globe. Keep climbing Pixar.
And as always, thanks again DarkHand. informative as always. 
I don’t think any information has been released about when the Up DVD will come out in the UK, disneyfreak, but it’ll be a few months yet.
Time to throw out the refrigerator! Up’s overseas ride deflated considerably this past week, although still doing quite well. Here is from screendaily.com:
"Up added $12.8m from 4,700 screens in 27 territories for $352.7m with Japan still to come in December. The film will overtake Angels And Demons by Monday to become the year’s fourth biggest overseas release behind Ice Age 3, Harry Potter 6 and Transformers 2.
* Up stayed top in the UK for the fourth straight weekend in a row as $5.4m from 770 raised the tally to $47.9m and confirmed it as the sixth biggest Disney animated release of all-time. It ranked fourth in Italy on $2.5m for $18.6m after three weekends…
* A further $1.2m in the Benelux raised the running total to an excellent $11.4m. Up ranked fourth in Germany and has taken $27.5m there after seven.
(Disney reported an excellent debut for (their) first local Russian production Book Of Masters. The fantasy adventure is in the vein of the Chronicles Of Narnia films and opened top on $5.2m from 750 sites for the biggest family oriented release in history and the 12th biggest debut for a Russian title.
The animated adventure 9 opened in eighth place the UK on $750,000 from 300…)"
Ok, so that’s a grand total of $645.7M, and I think it’s been been released in all significant countries of the world for several weeks now, except one. By the way, none of those 4 other movies mentioned above are on the same playing field as this movie. Up is about to pass up Wall-E and Ratatouille in Britain, note that ‘9’ could only muster 8th place there. (It’s only a good animated film and dropped quickly over here after a high opening and tons of pre-publicity.) And Up is on track to push past the Rat in Italy too, eventually, and perhaps to match the Rat’s performance in the Low Countries. Up has surpassed Wall-E in Germany now.
Also, there is some question as to whether Up was the #1 movie in Britain. The Jackson flick made $7.6-8.0M there, but that may have been just a weekend total, and Up could have exceeded it for the whole week. Anyways, Jackson will probably displace it next week. Will Up be the #1 movie of the year in Britain? It has to beat the $84M of Harry Potter6, a story based there. It’s ez to predict Pixar movies here with great accuracy, always summer releases, but a Fall British release is hard to say.
Edit: What’s Up’s major competition this holiday? The Disney Xmas movie? I just saw it and the crowd was jubilant, just that not many people were there. Avatar? The previews are as good as anything since LotR, and it is James Cameron. Twilight? It’s not that popular in Britain, but it’s another ‘youth’ movie that will erode the Up box. Not sure tho of the release schedule in that country.
Further Edit: btw, Up passed up the Rat’s global this past week, which was $624M. It still has far to go to pass up the Rat’s overseas take, which was huge: $417M
Up has now been usurped worldwide by not only Jackson’s concert movie, but also by Disney’s new Christmas Carol movie, which pushed it out of the #1 spot in the U.K. Talk about interference from a fellow studio film! Overseas gross at $367M now. The take is falling by 1/3 every week now and that will continue until Dec. 5th.
It earned $8.4M this past weekend and nearly $14M for the week. I’ve been having a terrible time finding the exact numbers for the U.K., Italy, the Low Countries etc… But I did find that Up is still #9 in both New Zealand, where its made nearly $3M, and in Brazil, where its made nearly $11M now, which was exactly where I expected it to finish. Only when it finishes tops in Japan will we again hear more precise numbers in the headlines; hard going for me now.
Edit: U.K. total is now $52.2M and is now in 3rd place there; It made $2.4M in 2nd place in Italy, Depp was first; Italian total is $21M.
It was expected to happen at some point, at least it had the spot for a pretty long time. Thanks again DarkHand!
Random world charts, that I’ve been running across in my searches:
To November 03, 2009
- L’AGE DE GLACE 3 - LE TEMPS DES DINOSAURES : 7 765 627 entrées
- Harry Potter and the Prince of Blood: 6 052 274
- LA-HAUT : 4 383 394
- Le Petit Nicolas: 4 359 109
- LOL (Laughing Out Loud): 3 647 635
- Gran Torino: 3 411 031
- Coco: 3 008 677
- Bolt HIM: 2 965 577
- Inglorious Basterds: 2 796 624
- Twilight: 2 772 499
- Slumdog Millionaire: 2 684 153
- The Strange Story of Benjamin Button: 2 595 615
This one is France, and Up is #3 for the year, la-haut literally means ‘Up There’. This past week it was still #19 in that country.
Box Office France:
Week…Entries…Accumulation
July 29 to Aug 4…1,301,980 1 301 980
5 to 11 Aug…825,909 2 127 889
12 to 18 Aug…525,731 2 653 620
19 to 25 Aug…472,654 3 126 274
Aug 26 to Sept 1… 421,764 3 548 038
2 to 8 Sept…206,979 3 755 017
9 to 15 Sept…170,996 3 926 013
16 to 22 Sept…140,709 4 066 722
23 to 29 Sept…116,697 4 183 419
Sept 30 to Oct 6…74,839 4 258 258
7 to 13 Oct…48,261 4 306 519
Oct 28 to Nov 3…30,105 4 383 394
Here we go with the new weekend news from Screendaily on Nov. 15th:
"Up ranked No. 4 overall with a weekend tally of $4.9 million generated from 3,348 locations in 25 territories. Foreign cume stands at $374.5 million, $40.5 million shy of the total overseas take of Ratatouille.
Disney says Up is the studio’s fourth-biggest animation hit of all time overseas. Its worldwide tally stands at $668 million…"
Up was 4th in Britain and has climbed to over $55M. Incredibles made $61M and Nemo $67M there. It made about $2M and was in 4th or 6th place in Italy, thru Nov. 15th depending on the source. 2012 was the biggie worldwide, and Disney’s Christmas Carol was in 2nd spot holding nicely with many holiday weekends to go. It’s made $8.2M in the Netherlands in 5 1/2 weeks.
Boxofficemojo has reported that Up closed in U.S. theaters on Nov. 5th. Its final box was $293,004,164.
The Up dvd has as expected rolled into a big week of sales: 5.3M for the first week. (Box Office has slacked, so I thought the dvd sales would be of some interest here instead of making a new thread) Here is the list from the-numbers.com:
US DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending Nov 15, 2009
Rank /Prev Title Units this Week % Change Total Units $Week Sales Total Sales Weeks
1 (-) Up…5,296,538 -------% 5,296,538 $88M …$88M 1
2 (-) The Ugly Truth…1,129,751 ------% 1,129,751 $18M …$18M 1
3 (1) G.I. Joe…816,726 -67.8% 3,355,303 $13M …$54.2M 2
4 (4) Transformers2 …518,531 -34.5% 8,082,694 $11M …$182M 4
5 (2) Ice Age3 …518,001 -46.9% 4,000,052 $9.2M …$68.4M 3
6 (5) Tinker Bell LostTreas 343,745 -46.0% 2,496,540 $5.5M …$40M 3
7 (3) Taking of Pelham 123 282,835 -69.2% 1,202,562 $4.4M …$18.5M 2
8 (7) The Proposal …217,688 -21.4% 3,813,587 $3.8M …$63.4M 5
9 (10)Twilight …192,052 +30.0% 9,389,559 $3.8M …$169M 34
10(22)Polar Express, The .174,786 +98.4% ------------- $1.6M ---------------203
11 (9)Monsters vs. Aliens .156,248 +01.4% 4,044,614 $2.1M …$69.7M 7
**Beware this chart. Last year the 1st week for Wall-E was downgraded by nearly 3M units when returns were taken into account. Edit Nov 30th: Beware is right! Up dvd sales already downgraded to 4.0M units.
One supermarket I go to sold out of its allotment within 9 days, the other only sold half and the rest disappeared(Edit: they went to the checkout stands and have nearly sold out now). These stores only sold a few blu-rays, which acct for diminished sales, and folks know that Best Buy and others had better deals the first week in release. Disney stores this week are selling the 4 disk blu-ray for only $30.
Haven’t found out how well the re-digitized Monsters Inc. did, but read somewhere it did very well in blu-ray sales, coming in at #2, behind million blu-ray seller Up.
Edit: week#2. Up falls to #2 with Star Trek claiming 5.7M sales. But don’t think that movie, which I liked as much as Up, is going to surpass it in sales. The three holidays in the next 5 weeks we have here in the U.S., include the two biggest holidays for family and children’s movies, i.e. Disney. Details are sketchy, but Up may now have 7M sales. It should add 1M more for each major holiday and then some in between and after, possibly finishing over 10M sales by early February, that’s just my guess. One should be conservative here after the multiple rumors and false charts of last year’s Pixar release.
Further Edit Up’s sales for week #2 is 906,000 and Star Trek falls by nearly 2M units. What a see-saw. Let’s wait to see what the numbers are for Thanksgiving holiday and CyberMonday next week.
Return to Theatrical Box Office:
More charts! from brandongray.com/intl/netherl … =47&p=.htm :
NETHERLANDS, 2009 Box Office
Rank Movie Title …Gross …Release
1 Harry Potter …$16,439,512 …7/15
2 Ice Age3 …$13,453,093 …7/1
3 Up …$8,431,530 …10/8
4 Angels & Demons …$7,760,800 …5/14
5 Inglourious Basterds .$6,874,289 …8/27
6 De storm …$6,550,998 …9/17
7 This Is It (MJackson) $5,633,252 …10/28
8 The Hangover …$5,279,285 …6/11
9 Slumdog Millionaire …$5,268,767 …2/12
10 Benjamin Button …$4,157,439 …1/29
11 2012 …$3,992,098 …11/12
12 Transformers2 …$3,730,164 …6/24
13 Yes Man …$3,719,800 …1/8
14 Valkyrie …$3,661,614 …1/22
15 Bolt
Netherlands Box Office, Nov 19–22:
TW LW Movie Weekend Gross Week
1 1 2012 …$1,329,148 …2
2 N Twilight …$1,126,949 …1
3 3 Terug naar de k $454,218 …4
4 5 Sinterklaas… …$308,685 …7
5 2 This Is It …$259,099 …4
6 N Christmas Carol $251,744 …1
7 N Couples Retreat $232,987 …1
8 4 Up …$166,757 …7
Up was #1 for three weeks in Oct here, and only now is falling fast.
And here is for the biggest breadwinner in the theaters for our movie:
UK box office Tuesday, November 24 2009, 9:15am EST; the top ten in full:
- (-) The Twilight Saga: New Moon - £11,683,158
- (1) 2012 - £3,496,202
- (2) A Christmas Carol - £2,224,044
- (3) Harry Brown - £724,627
- (4) Up - £642,134
So that’s about $2M more for the full week from England. Italy: our movie has pulled in $23M thru Nov. 22nd. Worldwide total is now $679Msays one source, but…
Nov.29th Edit: “Up added $1.5m from 2,482 in 24 territories for a $380m running total…” so says Screendaily.com. Not much for the weekend. And $380M + $293M domestic is only $673M, so someone’s numbers are a bit askew.
Japanese launch next weekend!! This country was Wall-E’s biggest overseas market, slightly ahead of Great Britain, which is still viewing Up by the way.
News is still sketchy, and just came in, this concerning dvd sales and from Reuters:
‘Up,’ ‘Dark Knight’ top DVD sales chart, Reuters, 2009-12-03
[i] LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Rampant Black Friday discounting, promotions and ubiquitous Disney merchandisers in large chains like Best Buy had a marked impact on the national home video sales chart for the week ended November 29.
Disney’s “Up” regained its top spot on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, while the newly released “Santa Buddies,” the latest in what must be the most successful dog franchise in movie history, debuted at an impressive No. 4 despite its direct-to-disc release.
Warner Bros.’ “The Dark Knight,” out a year, returned to the chart at a lofty No. 2, while Paramount’s “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” initially released in February, was back on the chart at No. 7.[/i]
So… this is the end of the 3rd week. But where is last week’s #1, Star Trek, in all of this? I know that big holidays here like Thanksgiving reward family movies, especially Disney. Also - WalMart has been having a very big sales promo of older titles, most only a year or so old just as you enter its Electonics/games/dvd/cd’s area. It has a big display of dvd’s for either $9.00 or $13.00, and many of last year’s bestsellers are among these. The Dark Knight was placed right at the top. It’s price was way down from last year, and was featured prominently, so it sold!
Not known is how well Up did on Cyber Monday, Nov. 30th, which is the biggest internet ordering day of the year here in the U.S. Sorry that I don’t have exact numbers for the movie for the past 2 weeks, but as you have seen, its approximate anyways and is expected to be readjusted between now and January…
Blockbuster reported that Up was #2 this past week. Another source had this list, which as you can see is glutted with Disney movies:
…week ending November 29, 2009:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
1 Santa Buddies Disney 1
2 Four Christmases New Line 1
3 Angels & Demons Sony 1
4 Star Trek Paramount 2
5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Disney 1
6 Up Disney 3
7 Funny People Universal 1
8 The Proposal Touchstone 7
9 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount 6
10 Twilight Summit 37
Theatrical news: Twilight has raked in over $240M, and is there any end in sight? It will pass Up in a few weeks domestically, knocking it down to 4th place, and Avatar may do the same if it holds to expectations.
Edit Dec.5th:[b]Up is out in Japan![/b] Any news yet? Here is the chart from last week where you can see how well the other Disney movie is doing:
Box Office: Japan Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2009. Source: Variety
FILM GROSS TOTAL
- 2012 …$4,416,080/$18,794,134
- Christmas Carol …$1,768,323/$12,551,002
- No More Cry… $1,434,545/$10,415,839
- Inglourious Basterds …$849,438/$4,300,841
- Twilight …$792,439/$792,439
- Sun That Never Sets …$757,391/$26,352,297
Our last market to get Up speaks, here it is from screendaily.com:
Up stands at $390m following a $7m number one launch in Japan on 525 screens that delivered the second biggest animated debut in history. Up should cross $400m by next weekend and overtake Ratatouille to become the second biggest Pixar release behind Finding Nemo.
That must be the 2nd biggest Hollywood animated debut ever, because it is well known what movies like Ponyo did over there ($165Million! Titanic did $200M there). It’s nice to see what we were predicting last June is coming true all over the world. Pity tho, that the good one or two Japanese animated films that are adaptable to American audiences don’t do that well when they get here. Ponyo audiences here, mostly Caucasian, were well appreciative of that film, the few that came.
Anyways, Wall-E did over $5.5M there on its first weekend, and went on and on and on. The holidays will be nice to Up. But beware Avatar. Global total: over $683M.
Gee, didn’t the Wall St Journal predict it would have a poor box office?
Thanks for the updates. Glad to see Japan is embracing it as well.
Dang, $683M? Congrats to UP! Thanks for the update DarkHandOfSigourneyWeaver! 
Oh, wow. I thought Up would do well, but I couldn’t have predicted this! The Japanese seem to love it, and that I’m not surprised about- aside from the incredible marketing in Japan, Japanese films themselves tend to be very creative and fantastic, so that element in Up would definitely appeal to them. Thanks for the information, DarkHandOfSigourneyWeaver!
Yeah, they’d BETTER like it with all the great stuff they’re getting! Haha! That’s totally wicked that Up’s getting such a great run in Japan. Good deal! Thanks for the update DarkHand!
Lol, yeah, that’s awesome 
Only it irks me that Twilight gets so many attention… there isn’t any heart or depth in that film at all! D:
Just saying, never underestimate the power of infatuated teenage girls in large numbers.
What I’m worried about is the fact that the next Twilight movie comes out almost the same week as TS3. If it breaks their streak. I’m suing. Seriously, that’s just stupid.
Yeah… stupid teenagers… have no eye for real films with amazing characters… they only care about looks… It astounds me. Mostly because I’m fourteen, Up gets degraded as a ‘stupid kids film’ and Twilight apparently is ‘the best movie ever’ and I have to cope with those fans almost daily.
Up is so much better than Twilight. I mean, anyone read the art of Up? It’ll surprise you how many symbolism and depth there’s in Up. Twilight is just some soppy love story.
And THAT’S why I am a faithful member of TwilightSucks. 
(no offence to any fans.)