Box Office: Weekend Global Top 10

Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes continued to do big business post-World Cup and is on the verge of surpassing the entire North American run of Rise of the Planet of the Apes ($176.8 million).

New entry Hercules made almost as much at the foreign box office as it did in North America, despite a much smaller footprint (it’s rolling out slowly). It wowed in Russia with $12 million, marking Dwayne Johnson‘s biggest opening ever in that market.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction officially crossed the $300 million mark in China, according to Paramount, and is only days away from becoming the first film of 2014 to hit $1 billion globally.

Other noisemakers over the weekend included Chinese nostalgic road-trip movie Continent and South Korean period action film Kundo: Age of the Rampant.

Godzilla — which didn’t make the top 10 chart — impressed in its Japanese debut, grossing $7 million and pushing its total global earnings to nearly $500 million.

Below are the top 10 films at the global box office for the weekend of July 18 to 20, according to Rentrak.

1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Fox, 60 territories, week 3)

Global weekend: $70.8 million (total: $355.9 million)

International: $54.5 million ($183.8 million)

Domestic: $16.4 million ($172.1 million)

2. Hercules (Paramount/MGM, 26 territories, week 1)

Global weekend: $57.7 million 

International: $28.7 million

Domestic: $29 million 

3. Lucy (Universal/EuropaCorp, 1 territory, week 1)

Global weekend: $44 million 

Domestic: $44 million

4. Transformers: Age of Extinction (Paramount, 60 territories, week 5)

Global weekend: $42.1 million (total: $966.4 million)

International: $37.5 million  ($730 million)

Domestic: $4.6 million ($236.4 million)

5. Continent (Multi, 1 territory, week 1)

Global weekend: $33 million (total: $45 million)

International: $33 million ($45 million)

6. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Fox/DreamWorks Animation, 43 territories, week 7)

Global weekend: $26.2 million (total: $425.8 million)

International: $24 million ($260.2 million)

Domestic: $2.2 million ($165.6 million)

7. Kundo: Age of the Rampant  (Showbox, 1 territory, week 1)

Global weekend: $20 million (total: $20.1 million)

 International: $20 million (total: $20.1 million)

8. Planes: Fire & Rescue (Disney, 31 territories, week 2)

Global weekend: $16.2 million (total: $56.1 million)

International: $6.9 million ($21 million)

Domestic: $9.3 million ($35.1 million) 

9. The Purge: Anarchy (Universal, 24 territories, week 2)

Global weekend: $15.9 million (total: $58 million)

International: $6 million ($6.7 million)

Domestic: $9.9 million ($51.3 million)

10. Sex Tape (Sony, 19 territories, week 2)

Global weekend: $12.1 million (total: $37.1 million)

International: $6.1 million ($10.2 million)

Domestic: $6 million ($26.9 million)