New at BOP: Review: Matrix Resurrections Movie Review: Moonfall Movie Reviews: Scream The #1 Movie in America November Forecast The Many Saints of Newark October Forecast New Trivia Question All site updates Share & Save   Tweet Print this column

In news that will surprise no one, it was another great weekend for Furious 7, which continues to astound even compared to the recent huge success of the franchise. After an opening weekend in which it earned $245 million, the car chase/spy thriller hybrid barely slowed down at all, bringing in $195 million this weekend. A healthy chunk of that came from China, where the film earned $68.6 million on its opening day, breaking the Chinese record for single-day performance set by Transformers: Age of Extinction last summer, and earning more than any previous installment in the series managed in their entire runs. All this is especially impressive given that Furious 7 is a 2D-only release, and 3D films have tended to perform better internationally in recent years. After 10 days, Furious 7 has earned $548 million internationally and $800 million worldwide, pretty much guaranteeing that it will be the first film of 2015 to pass the $1 billion mark.

Second place goes to Wolf Warriors, the Chinese action film which earned $22 million last weekend. It's showing tremendous legs so far: it earned $18 million this weekend, giving it a running total of $68.5 million.

Home is third as the DreamWorks animated featured adds $15.2 million. After being out for a month, it has so far earned $112.7 million from overseas audiences, but still has a lot of big territories to hit in its future.

Former two-time champ Cinderella continues a very graceful descent down the charts this weekend as it added $12.6 million, good for fourth place and an international take of $256 million. Considering that this one cost a relatively modest $90 million, and its global take is now sitting at $436.7 million, the fairy tale retread is proving to be a pretty profitable venture for Disney.

Kingsman, tenacious as ever, manages a top five finish since its overseas take was $9 million. It now has a running total of $267.5 million, and is creeping up on $400 million worldwide.

There's no change at sixth or seventh this week, since the Chinese romance Let's Get Married continues to have a slight edge on Insurgent. The former added $8.5 million and has $42.5 million to date, while the latter added $7.9 million, giving it a new total of $135.3 million, putting it $20 million ahead of Divergent's final total of $114.9 million.

We have a newcomer to the top ten this week in the form of Pourquoi j'ai (pas) mange mon pere, a French animated film based on an English comedic novel called The Evolution Man about the life of the first man to discover fire. The film earned $3.5 million this weekend.

Very slowly making an exit from the charts is The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. The animated hit added $3.2 million overseas this weekend, bringing its international total to $142.3 million and its global total to $303.6 million.

Finally this week we have The Longest Ride, the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel to weep its way onto our screens. The film earned $3 million this weekend from a handful of territories, which is a slight improvement on last year's The Best of Me, which only managed a grand total of $9.2 million from international audiences. Movies based on Sparks' works have generally not done as well internationally as they have done domestically - only two, 1999's Message in a Bottle and 2008's Nights in Rodanthe, made more outside of the US than in it, and in both cases it wasn't by a huge margin - and that looks likely to be the case here, especially considering that it stars two relative unknowns. It should easily outgross A Walk to Remember and The Best of Me, the current lowest grossing adaptations of Sparks' books in terms of overseas revenue, while a mid-20s finish similar to those of Safe Haven and The Last Song seems eminently possible.