Disney’s “Thor: The Dark World” powered to $109 million in its first three days at the overseas box office, and the early returns from the Marvel superhero sequel are running well ahead of the original film as it rolls in 36 foreign markets this weekend ahead of its U.S. opening Friday.
The massive opening lifted the studio’s overall overseas grosses to $2.31 billion for the year, marking the fourth consecutive year that Disney has surpassed the $2 billion benchmark overseas. The previous record was $2.302 billion, set in 2010.
And it knocked Warner Bros.’ “Gravity” out of the top spot it had held at the foreign box office for the past month.