UNIVERSAL COUNTS $1 BILLION IN OVERSEAS SALES
Friday, August 15 2008
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Universal said Thursday that as of Wednesday its overseas ticket sales had topped $1 billion for the year, the earliest it had ever hit that figure. The studio attributed the success to strong sales this month for the hit films Mamma Mia! and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. For all of 2007, the studio took in $1.034 in international revenue. Its domestic -- i.e., U.A. and Canadian -- tally now stands at at $805 million, bringing its current worldwide gross to $1.84 billion.
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