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Like kids who can’t sleep because they’re excited to see what Santa has brought them, most of the world is waiting impatiently to see just how big of a deal Star Wars: The Force Awakens is going to be when it opens next week. As such, the number one film this week is the Chinese film Surprise, which won the weekend with a fairly modest $17 million.

Hot on its heels is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which added $15.4 million for a new international total of $320.1 million. That’s squarely in the middle of the pack as far as Katniss’ adventures go, being higher than the first film’s total of $286.4 million, but with a ways to go before it approaches the highs of Catching Fire, which earned $440.3 million. The Hunger Games has never quite been as big of a deal overseas as it is in the US, and it looks like the final film (unless Lionsgate goes HAM on prequels) is continuing that trend in earnest.

Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is in third with $14.3 million and a new international total of $78.2 million. Like most Pixar films, The Good Dinosaur is being rolled out a bit slower than a lot of animated features, but so far, its international performance is as subdued as its domestic one. Currently, the film with the $200+ million budget has earned $167.8 million globally.

James Bond keeps on trucking in fourth as Spectre brings in $12.9 million. The final(?) outing for Daniel Craig’s version of the character has so far earned $629.8 million internationally, which is pretty far back from Skyfall’s $804.2 million total, but still a major leap from the $431.6 million that Casino Royale earned. That’s more than good enough to make it one of the most successful Bond films ever on a global scale.

Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea is fifth with a pretty anemic $12.6 million. That looks especially bad when you consider that the film has opened in most of the territories that it is likely to hit, and its international total of $39.4 million is unlikely to bail out a film that is very rapidly taking on water.

The remake of Point Break skydived into a handful of territories a few weeks ahead of its US debut and made off with $12.3 million. That’s kind of okay for a film that not many people seem all that excited about, but considering its $120 million price tag and a certain space movie waiting in the wings, it may not be enough to get the action movie the sort of attention it’s going to need to make a dent.

The Martian, one of the year’s leggiest movies both at home and abroad, returns to the chart in seventh place. The Ridley Scott blockbuster added $8.1 million, bring its international total to $366.3 million and its global total to $589.1 million.

Bridge of Spies hit a few more territories this weekend and was rewarded with $6.7 million. The Cold War thriller has so far earned $53.2 million internationally, which still places it as one of Steven Spielberg’s lower-grossing movies ever, but it’s also one of his most modestly budgeted at $40 million. Considering that the trailer for his version of The BFG dropped to much excitement this week and his adaptation of Ready Player One is coming together nicely, bigger numbers will undoubtedly be in Spielberg’s future.

In ninth is Inside Men. The South Korean thriller earned $5 million for a new total of $41 million. Rounding out the last frame of the pre-Force Awakens epoch is the Chinese drama The Master, which added $4.2 million and has $5 million to date.