'Pirates' tops felons at international boxoffice

June 11, 2007 Bowing day-and-date with its No. 1 domestic debut, the third in director Steven Soderbergh's Las Vegas caper series, co-starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, already has grossed $65.1 million worldwide. "At World's End" also had to counter the expanded rollout (in 14 new territories) of DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures International's "Shrek the Third," which nabbed an estimated $25 million from 1,852 screens in 23 markets. Another newcomer on the foreign circuit for the weekend was "Surf's Up," Sony's latest animation outing, which generated an estimated $2.1 million from 400 screens in Russia and Ukraine.

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