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Insurgent’s dominance at the international box office proved to be a short-lived, as it has been unseated by previous champion Cinderella. Clearly overseas audiences are more interested in actual fairies than pixie haircuts. Anyway, Disney’s latest live-action effort added $38.7 million this past weekend, giving it a running total of $186.2 million and shooting it clear over the $300 million mark globally.

In second place is the aforementioned Insurgent, which expanded into a few more territories and added $29.9 million. As I said last week, these early results suggest that the Divergent series is not in danger of blowing up and becoming a global phenomenon on the level that Twilight and The Hunger Games series did, but it certainly seems to be expanding its audience a little bit since its running total of $93.7 million all but guarantees that it will surpass the $137.8 million the first film made.

Kingsman, a perpetual presence in this column for almost two months, rises from sixth last week to third this week on the back of a strong debut in – you guessed it – China. It earned $20.2 million in that country alone, $25 million overall, which pushed its international total to a huge $209 million – a best for director Matthew Vaughn – and its global total to $328.4 million. It should overtake X-Men: First Class’s global total of $353.6 million to become Vaughn’s biggest hit overall in the next few weeks.

DreamWorks’ Home is fourth this week as the animated film continues to rack up good numbers for the embattled company. It added $24 million this weekend, bringing its international total to $48.2 million so far, which in combination with its strong US bow, pushes it just short of the $100 million mark globally.

Focus continued to do modestly well, earning $8.2 million and a fifth place finish. The Will Smith-Margot Robbie vehicle has continued to do better overseas than it has domestically, earning a solid $82.4 million over the last few weeks. Focus should make it to the $100 million mark before the end of its run, which feels like a decent result for a film that found Smith stepping outside of his comfort zone.

Sixth place belongs to Twenty, a South Korean coming-of-age film about three friends trying to navigate the problems of being twenty years old. The film debuted at number one in South Korea with $6.9 million.

Like an aging actor taking one too many swings at being an action star, Taken 3 is just barely hanging on in seventh. It earned $6.1 million, bringing its international total to $238.4 million. That makes it the most successful of the three Taken films at the International box office (just beating Taken 2’s $236.2 million), even though the film’s collapse in the US means that it won’t have a shot at taking the global crown from Taken 2 (which earned $376.1 million vs. Taken 3’s $325.3 million).

Another tenacious entry from earlier this year is The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. The second cinematic outing for the iconic character brought in $5.4 million, bringing its total to $127.7 million.

Lost and Love, a Chinese drama which cracked the top five last week, is in ninth this weekend. It added $5.2 million, which gives it a solid running total of $31 million.

Get Hard rounds out the top ten this weekend as the controversial/terrible comedy earned $4.6 million. It only debuted in a handful of territories, so a fairly subdued debut is only to be expected, but it’ll be interesting to see how this one performs in the weeks ahead. Comedy as a genre tends not to travel all that well, and neither Will Ferrell or Kevin Hart have had much success overseas; Ferrell’s biggest success has been in animated hits like The LEGO Movie and Megamind, while Hart has never had a hit overseas as a headliner. His biggest hit as a star to date is Ride Along, which only earned $19.1 million overseas despite earning $134.9 million in America.