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CASINO ROYALE FLUSHED BY SUCCESS Monday, November 27 2006 
In
nearly
every
country
where
it
has
opened
--
the
U.S.
is
the
conspicuous
exception
--
the
James
Bond
movie
Casino
Royale
has
dominated
the
box
office.
It
debuted
in
first
place
in
18
additional
countries
over
the
weekend,
helping
to
raise
its
overseas
total
for
the
weekend
to
an
estimated
$66.2
million
and
raising
its
total
overseas
gross
to
$108.4
million.
It
outperformed
every
previous
Bond
flick
in
each
country.
However,
it
has
done
(more)TO DIE FOR Tuesday, March 11 2003 
Meanwhile,
MGM's
Die
Another
Day,
distributed
overseas
by
Fox
International,
became
the
highest
international-grossing
James
Bond
movie
of
all
time
as
it
opened
in
Japan
over
the
weekend
with
$3.4
million
to
bring
its
international
total
to
$246.9
million,
surpassing
the
$242
million
set
by
GoldenEye
in
1995,
according
to
the
British
trade
publication
Screen
International.
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Casino Royale remained golden overseas, raking in a huge $44.7 million, according to Daily Variety, which put its overseas gross just shy of $200 million (at $196.5 million). As expected, given its pedigree, the film has been a big winner in the U.K. where it took in $10.4 million on 992 screens, bringing its total in that country to $71 million after two weeks. By contrast, The Nativity Story proved to be a bigger disappointment overseas than it was in the U.S. Even predominantly Catholic countries shunned it, including Spain, where it took in just $250,000 on 210 screens and Mexico, where it managed only $150,000 on 199.
