Record-smashing summer int'l b.o. reaps $4.3 bil

September 07, 2007 International film distribution executives, like salesmen everywhere, are perennial cheerleaders, passionately touting every new season's product as the best ever. For the first time, five of the six Motion Picture Assn. companies topped $1 billion in overseas boxoffice revenue for the year by the end of July (three reached that plateau by that point in 2006). The surprise third-place entrant with $1.200 billion was Paramount Pictures International, making its debut as a stand-alone company following the break-up of United International Pictures, its joint venture with Universal Pictures International.

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