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The Hunger Games maintained its dominance this weekend as Mockingjay Part 1 earned $67 million from 87 territories. It has so far earned $254.4 million after only two weeks, and it should overtake the international take of the first Hunger Games ($283.2) by next Sunday. It's shown solid growth in pretty much every territory, so it should be able to approach, if not beat, the $440.2 million that Catching Fire earned last year.

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar continues to do very well with overseas audiences as it added $44.4 million. That pushes the film close to $400 million outside of the US and gives it a global take of $542.3 million. An extremely impressive performance for a film that looked like a big risk to begin with, and an ample demonstration that sometimes a film being divisive can be good for the bottom line, if only because people have to pay to see it if they want to know what people are complaining about.

DreamWorks' potential disappointment in the making, Penguins of Madagascar, hit a few more territories in addition to the US this weekend and was rewarded with a solid $36 million. The film, which has done pretty well in China but hasn't really managed to create much excitement anywhere else, has earned $63 million to date. The Madagascar brand has been reliably strong overseas, but it's still not apparent if that affection has translated for the spin-off.

Horrible Bosses 2 is fourth this week with $11.7 million. That's not great, but comedy doesn't tend to travel as well as other genres, and the first Horrible Bosses was only a modest hit back in 2011 (it finished with $92.1 million). Assuming that foreign audiences are as lukewarm on the sequel as domestic ones, the sequel will probably struggle to earn what its predecessor managed. It's closely followed in fifth by Women Who Flirt, a Chinese romantic comedy that earned $11.5 million.

The bottom half of the top ten is led by Paddington. The British feature adaptation of the classic children's story about a bear from Peru who comes to live with an English family has received incredibly strong reviews in the UK, and the film's quality seems to have been rewarded, as it earned $8.5 million.

Seventh this week is The Best, The Lost, a film which I can find literally no information about because that title is extremely resistant to Google. I'm guessing that it has nothing to do with how "Lost was the best until it was the worst", though. Anyway, it earned $8 million, whatever it is.

Fury continues to hang around for another week, as the Brad Pitt/Tank movie added $7.9 million, bring its running total to $89.8 million. In another week or so it should become his 17th film to earn more than $100 million overseas, reaffirming once again that Pitt is a true global superstar.

The final two slots are occupied by kung fu action movie Rise of the Legend, which $5.5 million and has $18 million so far, and the French animated film Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods, which earned $5 million. The latest adaptation of the very popular comic strips about Gauls beating up Romans is the first to be released in 3D. Based on that opening, there's clearly some kick left in that magic potion.