'Pirates' deflects new tentpoles

June 12, 2007 At World's End to a foreign gross of $493.6 million in its third weekend, making the Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer production the 15th most popular film ever released in the overseas market. Despite an overall average drop of 50%, ranging from a 20% slide in Japan to 72% in Russia, the third installment of the pirate fantasy dominated the international market for a third session with a weekend take of $51 million from 17,500 screens in 103 territories. Pictures' heist sequels, "Ocean's Thirteen," lifted $28 million from 4,200 prints in 30 markets, ranking No. 1 on the boxoffice charts in 20 countries, among them the U.K., Spain, Italy and Taiwan.

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