STAR TREK - STAR TREK BEAMS UP PROFITS OVERSEAS, TOO

STAR TREK BEAMS UP PROFITS OVERSEAS, TOO

Star Trek led the overseas box office with what Daily Variety described as "a solid rather than spectacular" take of $35.5 million in 54 countries. X-Men Origins Wolverine held up better abroad than it did domestically, falling 59 percent to $29.7 million. It has now grossed $123.7 million overseas. Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox said that it would hold its delayed red-carpet screening of Wolverine in Mexico City on May 26 with Hugh Jackman scheduled to appear. A previously scheduled world premiere of the movie in the Mexican capital had been postponed because of the scare over swine flu. The country's theaters reopened last Thursday but with health-department-ordered restrictions -- including one measure that requires theater managers to keep patrons at least seven feet apart in all directions.

11/05/2009