MUMBAI: Even after dropping 51 per cent from its opening-round gross, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 still stood strong in the foreign theatrical circuit for the second consecutive weekend drawing $97.5 million from some 13,500 locations in 73 overseas territories.
The fifth and final film based on Stephenie Meyer‘s series of novels about a young woman (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson), has reached an international tally of $350.8 million, about $80 million less than the franchise‘s all-time offshore box-office champ, last year‘s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 ($430.9 million).
Breaking Dawn Part 2 -- held the top spot in most major markets although it dropped to No. 2 in Australia and in Russia. It stood at No. 3 in South Korea (finishing third after a pair of local-language titles).
The film generated $15.2 million from 765 sites in Germany opening while the film‘s Austria debut managed to accumulate $1.8 million.