‘Pacific Rim’ Hits $100M in China, Passing ‘Avengers’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’

Guillermo del Toro's giant robots epic is up to $286M at the foreign box office

"Pacific Rim" raised its overall total in China to more than $100 million after staying in the No. 1 box office spot with a $14 million third weekend.

Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.' "Pacific Rim” brought in roughly $20 million from 58 territories in all this weekend. Its international total is $286 million and it is at nearly $385 million worldwide. Its haul in China is bigger than its $98 million U.S. take.

Director Guillermo del Toro's giant robots epic is the second movie to cross the $100 million mark in China this year. Disney's "Iron Man 3″ has amassed more than $120 million there since opening in June.

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Already the highest grossing Warner Bros. movie in China, "Pacific Rim" moved up the list of all-time highest-grossing U.S. films there, passing "The Avengers” ($84 million) and "Kung Fu Panda 2″ ($92 million). The leader is "Transformers 3,” which made $172 million there in 2011.

"Pacific Rim” hasn't been able to match the success it's had in China in Japan. After two weeks there, it has taken in just over $9 million.

After China, the biggest foreign markets for  "Pacific Rim” have been Russia with $20.5 million, South Korea with $18 million and Mexico with $15.8 million.
 

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