Looper at the box office

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Looper did better than expected at the box office this weekend. No final numbers yet but critics predicted high teens while in reality, it made approximately $21 mil. With a $30 mil. budget and rated R, not bad at all! The interesting thing though? China's box office numbers:

The biggest surprise is in China, where the Rian Johnson helmed time travel adventure has taken the top spot with an estimated $24 million (...) and it looks set to become the first opening of there which actually outgrosses that of North America. Endgame's James Stern tells Deadline, "While we don’t have the final box office tally’s because of the Chinese National Holiday, it looks as if we are #1 in that market and at least on par if not exceeding the U.S. box office, marking the very first time in history that China would be world’s leading market for an international film."

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First movie in history to achieve that, huh? It just proves that the foreign BO is where the big bucks can be found these days, not in the US anymore. I think that studios and critics will soon have to redefine their strategy of labeling "flops". The US BO is stumbling more and more while foreign countries are becoming a much stronger purchasing power in that department.

Good for Looper. Even with just this weekend's BO numbers in the US and China, investors already got their money back.