‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ opens to $201.2M overseas

The cast of heroes from Joss Whedon’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ulton’ (2015)

Setting a huge benchmark for itself in preparation for its US opening on 1st May ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ has taken a huge $201.2M in the overseas box office.

Opening in 44 different territories across the world ‘Ultron’ has taken the #1 slot in each and every one of those box offices and exceeded the opening of it’s predecessor by 44%.

Superherohype details the numbers for key territories as follows:

Korea $28.2M
UK $27.3M
Russia $16.2M
Brazil $13.1M
Australia $13.1M
France $12.4M
Germany $9.3M
Taiwan $8.6M
Italy $8.5M
Philippines $7.7M
India $7.7M
Hong Kong $6.4M
Malaysia $5.8M
Argentina $4.9M
Singapore $3.6M
Other $28.3M
Total $201.2M

Many sites are reporting that this is also the biggest IMAX opening weekend ever for a release outside of China with $10.4M of the profits coming from IMAX screenings alone.

The film is sure to break box office records across the globe with further territories opening this week. You can checkout our review of the film here.