WARNER BROS. PICTURES INDIA IS THE NO.1 STUDIO IN INDIA AND ALSO SURPASSES $3 BILLION AT THE INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE

WARNER BROS. PICTURES

WARNER BROS. PICTURES INDIA IS THE NO.1 STUDIO IN INDIA AND ALSO SURPASSES $3 BILLION

AT THE INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE

                                                                                                  

 For the second consecutive year, Warner Bros. Pictures India has become the No.1 Hollywood studio in India & Warner Bros. Pictures International has exceeded the coveted $3 billion mark at the international box office.

This benchmark comes on the heels of the release of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, which surpassed $400 million at the international box office this weekend and is still going strong.

Nine Warner Bros. Pictures films have exceeded $100 million internationally, topped by Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” (with Paramount Pictures), which has taken in an astounding $467 million outside of the U.S. to date, and “Godzilla” (with Legendary Pictures), which has earned $327 million overseas.  Four titles—Doug Liman’s “Edge of Tomorrow” (with Village Roadshow Pictures), Phil Lord & Christopher Miller’s “The LEGO^® Movie” (also with Village Roadshow Pictures), and Noam Murro and Zack Snyder’s “300: Rise of an Empire” (with Legendary), along with the 2014 spillover grosses from “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”—each topped $200 million abroad.  Other key successes included New Line’s “Annabelle” at a phenomenal $171 million and “Into the Storm”

Warner Bros Pictures International has surpassed $1 billion in grosses a total of 16 years, and crossed $2 billion seven times, including consecutive years from 2010 to 2014.