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Around-the-World Brief: 'Iron Man 2' Soars Past $100 Million by Ray Subers Iron Man 2 May 2, 2010 Iron Man 2 had a massive start at the foreign box office in its first five days, grossing an estimated $100.2 million at 6,764 locations in 53 territories (and ranking No. 1 in all but one territory). This was up slightly from Iron Man's 2008 foreign launch of $99.1 million, though in an apples-to-apples territory comparison Iron Man 2 improved on the original by an average of 26 percent (in local currency). Domestically, Iron Man 2 is set to open in around 4,000 theaters this Friday. The Marvel Entertainment movie had its best debut in the United Kingdom, where it grossed $12.2 million from 528 locations, representing nearly a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor. Tony Stark and company also drew huge crowds in South Korea, where its $10.8 million from 855 locations was up 79 percent over Iron Man's launch two years ago. Other noteworthy starts included $8.8 million in Australia, $8.2 million in France, $8.2 million in Russia, $7.3 million in Mexico, $5.2 million in Brazil, $4.6 million in Italy and $3.9 million in Spain. Within its 53 territories, Iron Man 2 debuted on 48 IMAX screens, grossing $2.25 million for a $47,000 per screen average. This bests the previous 2D record holder, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($2.1 million). It may seem odd for Iron Man 2 to have already opened in this many foreign territories, but distributor Paramount Pictures did originally have the picture scheduled to launch domestically on April 30. The studio stuck with that date internationally to get an extra week in before much of the world is consumed by 2010 World Cup fever starting June 11. Iron Man 2 still has a number of significant foreign openings coming up, including China, India and Germany next week and Japan on June 11.
