Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables earns $30.2 million in two days at U.S. box office

Working Title Films’ musical extravaganza Les Misérables grossed $39.6 million domestically to take the number two slot at the box office and $32.2 million internationally in its first three days of release to gross $71.6M worldwide since it opened on Wednesday (Dec 26).

The film ratched up huge advance ticket sales in the US where it opened number 1 Christmas Day on 2,808 theatres making it the second highest Christmas day opening in history behind 2009’s Sherlock Holmes. ($24.6m).

Internationally, the film is playing in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Spain, ranking no.1 in Japan amongst Hollywood films where it is dominating the box office with a 50% marketshare and $9.5M to date.

Australia opened Wednesday with $1.9m setting the record as the biggest opening day ever for a musical in the territory (45% higher than previous record holder, Universal’s Mamma Mia!).

It was also the biggest opening day ever for a Russell Crowe film and a Working Title production. Its two day plus previews total is $4.5m to take the number 2 spot.

Hungary opened Dec 27th with $38K placing it number 2.

The remaining international territories will release in 2013 including the UK and Ireland on Jan 11.

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