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"We had a sensational weekend overseas," said Chuck Viane, Walt Disney Studio's president of distribution, noting solid returns in Russia and China in particular.

Its ballpark $4.8m opening weekend overseas take is down from SRK's Chennai Express ($5.9m) last year, with the UK portion – a key market – well shy of Dhoom 3's $1.45m record.

Chennai Express had grossed about by its third weekend overseas and by the fourth weekend.

And now, even people who can't afford a weekend overseas can enjoy it.

With a budget of $178 million, and marketing costs of tens of millions of dollars more, "Edge of Tomorrow" has a long way to go in order to become profitable, though the studio is touting a strong opening weekend overseas as reason for optimism.

All of Hollywood's action over the weekend was overseas, where Walt Disney Studios released "The Avengers" in 39 markets and took in $178.4 million.

He added that he would send a letter this weekend to British overseas territories – Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Gibraltar and Montserrat – and the crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

The film doesn't seem conceived with the same kind of global appeal as the Taken franchise, and a smash-and-grab release schedule – the US and UK creating an early March splash for a busy overseas weekend with most major territories a month later – reflects that.

On Tuesday, Mr Cameron will hope to make progress on tax transparency after agreeing a deal on the issue over the weekend with British overseas territories and Crown dependencies.

This dollop of The Hunger Games has been frontloaded more than previous ones – opening simultaneously in close to 90 territories rather than 40-something – so no surprise either that it is ahead of the last two at the second-weekend mark: $254.6m overseas against $146.1m.

Similarly, Avatar managed an absurd six consecutive $100+ overseas weekends, and on its current 50% drops abroad, Jurassic World won't get close.The Chris Pratt blockbuster looks to be in a dustup with The Avengers for third-highest-grossing film ever, which it should seize if the 5 August Japanese release goes to plan.