'Real Steel' tops overseas box office

Local fall holidays in a few areas saved overseas box office clicking over an March. 14-16 weekend that saw DreamWorks' "Real Steel," distribbed worldwide by Disney, lead all photos, with $23.3 million. The very first launch of "The Three Musketeers" via various local distribs, and Universal's "Johnny British Reborn" acquired well. "Musketeers," which Summit launched Stateside on March. 21, bowed in 20 overseas areas, dicing $17.7 million for just about any cume of $43.5 million after 72 hours, while "Johnny British" ongoing to learn from an worldwide rollout timed to coincide while using holidays, spying $17.2 million for just about any cume of $85.millions of after 5 days. By 50 Percent days, "Real Steel" has collected $56.6 000 0000 worldwide from 28 worldwide areas (41% in the total), with approaching bows in South usa and France. The robo-pic ongoing to top the B.O. within the second weekend in Russia and Mexico. In Russia, it made $4.7 million (beating "Musketeers," which first demonstrated to $3.7 million) and contains cumed $15 million. In Mexico, "Real Steel" hit up $2.7 million visiting some cume of $7.2 million. Among the notable debuts for "Musketeers," Italia brought a chart-topping $2 million through local distrib 01 Distribuzione, while U.K. auds compensated out $2.3 million via eOne Films, putting the film at No. 3 because market. Blightly brought the most effective weekend gross for "Johnny British," $5 million, repping 29% in the market's overall B.O., with summer time break poised to begin now. The pic has cumed $15.2 million after 2 days inside the territory. "Johnny British" also rose to No. one in the German B.O., getting a soph-sesh gross of $2.6 000 0000 ($7 million cume). Pic accomplished good success from students still on vacation. In Nz, the Rowan Atkinson-starrer rose 32% within the second week. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com