Friday, July 29, 2005

It Takes Diff'rent Strokes to Move the World

As I pointed out last week, our foreign friends sometimes have different tastes than us. In that spirit, here's a fun game for you:

Match the 2004 movies (domestic grosses in parentheses) with their overseas totals (all numbers in millions). Answers appear in the Comments section.

Movies (Domestic Totals)
1) The Passion of the Christ ($370.3)
2) The Incredibles ($261.4)
3) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ($249.5)
4) The Day After Tomorrow ($186.7)
5) The Bourne Supremacy ($176.2)
6) Shark Tale ($160.9)
7) I, Robot ($144.8)
8) Troy ($133.4)
9) Ocean's Twelve ($125.5)
10) Van Helsing ($120.2)
11) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ($114.3)
12) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ($85.3)
13) The Notebook ($81.0)
14) Man on Fire ($77.9)
15) The Terminal ($77.9)
16) Garfield: The Movie ($75.4)
17) Christmas with the Kranks ($73.8)
18) Sideways ($71.5)
19) Shall We Dance ($57.9)
20) Barbershop 2: Back in Business ($65.1)
21) King Arthur ($51.9)
22) The Phantom of the Opera ($51.2)
23) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ($40.2)
24) Alexander ($34.3)
25) Closer ($34.0)
26) Good Bye, Lenin! ($4.1)

Overseas Totals
A) $540.3
B) $370.0
C) $364.0
D) $356.0
E) $241.1
F) $237.2
G) $221.5
H) $202.6
I) $202.4
J) $180.0
K) $151.5
L) $140.8
M) $133.3
N) $123.2
O) $112.3
P) $112.2
Q) $103.3
R) $81.1
S) $75.3
T) $53.4
U) $40.8
V) $37.1
W) $34.3
X) $22.8
Y) $5.3
Z) $0.88

1 Comments:

Blogger The Pop Culture Petri Dish said...

1, E
2, B
3, A
4, D
5, O
6, H
7, I
8, C
9, F
10, J
11, T
12, Y
13, W
14, U
15, L
16, N
17, X
18, V
19, P
20, Z
21, K
22, Q
23, G
24, M
25, R
26, S

July 29, 2005 4:28 PM  

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