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While Labor Day weekend was pretty dispiriting at the domestic box office, things weren't that much better everywhere else in the world. The only difference is that they didn't have the excuse of an historically awful holiday for moviegoing to explain why the totals were so low. This is all a way of saying that, with basically no new product of note in the international marketplace, Terminator Genisys is the top film for the third weekend in a row. It added $11.5 million, giving it a new international total of $346.3 million, or nearly four times its $89.5 million domestic total.

In a close second place is Hitman: Agent 47, which earned $11.4 million. That gives it a running total of $43.2 million from outside the U.S., suggesting that it has a pretty good chance of beating the $60.2 million the first Hitman film earned back in 2007. Data on how well the other 45 Hitman films made in the interim is surprisingly hard to come by, however.

Minions continues its victory lap as it strives to squeeze every remaining dollar out of the world's begrudging parents. It added $10.9 million to its absurdly swollen coffers, giving it a new international total of $714.2 million, and a global total of $1.04 billion. Since it's slowing down a bit, it will probably end up being the lowest-grossing of 2015's billion dollar earners (especially since The Force Awakens is waiting in the wings), which is a problem most films would be lucky to have.

Marvel's Ant-Man returns to the top ten after opening in South Korea. It earned $10 million, bringing its overseas tally to $210.5 million, which is the third lowest international total for an installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, just ahead of the first Captain America ($193.9 million) and The Incredible Hulk ($128.6 million). It should manage to overtake the first Iron Man ($266.8 million) and Thor ($268.3 million) films once it opens in China and Japan on September 18th and 19th.

Chinese crime drama The Dead End is a non-mover in fifth place after earning $9.9 million, giving it a new total of $41 million.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is sixth with $9.4 million. That gives it a new total of $328.7 million, and pushes its global total to more than half a billion. It's hit every major territory except China, where it opens this week. Since the last installment in the series, Ghost Protocol, earned more than $100 million there, we should probably expect to see Rogue Nation make a comeback next weekend.

Straight Outta Compton makes its debut appearance in this column after opening in Poland and the Netherlands. It earned $7.9 million from those countries and a handful of other territories, bringing its international total to $18.1 million. Despite hip-hop's global reach, films about the genre have been few and far between, and even those that do get made have struggled to convert success on the pop charts into success at the box office. The notable exception to that rule is 8 Mile, which earned more internationally ($126.1 million) than it did domestically ($116.7 million) back in 2002, but that was at the peak of Eminem's popularity as a global superstar. In that context, Straight Outta Compton's performance so far is actually pretty solid, though its success domestically has been so spectacular that international numbers are pretty much an afterthought at this point.

Inside Out is eighth with $7.1 million, giving it a new total of $386.2 million. It doesn't have too many countries left to open in, but those remaining including Germany and China, so Joy and company are far from finished.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is all the way down in ninth as the Guy Ritchie-directed spy story struggles to find purchase pretty much everywhere. It has an international total to date of $46 million, which means that a glossy, big-budget caper is straining to match the $53.2 million that the much more modest Snatch earned way back in 2000.

Vacation just sneaks in to the chart at number ten as the long-mooted, quickly forgotten update of the comedy franchise earned $4.3 million. The film has actually done okay internationally, at least when you compare its current total of $34.1 million to those of other underwhelming comedies from this year like Entourage ($12.2 million), The Wedding Ringer ($15.3 million), and Hot Pursuit ($16.8 million).

Just outside of the top ten we find Jurassic World, which I only mention because it finally crossed the $1 billion mark this week internationally, making it only the fourth film to ever achieve that and the second of 2015 after Furious 7. If you want an easy way of gauging the success of Universal's success this year, consider that they managed to do something in the space of six months that only James Cameron achieved before, and it took him 12 years.