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Foreign box office $143m.
(Disney notes that an increase in foreign box office sales has offset the slide).
But box-office analysts were deeply disappointed by the film's foreign box office total of $139 million.
As if that were not enough, the foreign box office for "American Beauty" will this week pass the American total.
The foreign box office accounted for only about 31 percent of the film's approximately $69 million in worldwide sales, according to the Rentrak box office reporting service.
In 2007, eight Oscar nominations and an internationally broadcast awards night performance by the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson helped lift the foreign box office for "Dreamgirls" to $51.6 million.
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Foreign box-office income started exceeding domestic box-office income for Hollywood movies in 1993.
(In an average year, not counting Broadway, Simon's plays still gross about seven million dollars in the United States; his foreign box-office is ten million).
Independent filmmakers are struggling to sell the rights to foreign box-office takings in advance something they used to rely on to pay for their pictures.
As foreign box-office sales have become more important, the people who manage international distribution have become more influential, weighing in on "green-light" decisions about which films are made.
As of 2011 it still held the record for the French film with the highest foreign box-office gross.
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