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Aug 28, 2006, 10:59 AM
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"Cars" sets record in China for animated film
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Pixar-Disney's "Cars" premiered this weekend in China at $1.2 million, topping the box office and setting a record for the biggest opening of any animated film in that country.
The CG-animated motor saga also opened in first place in Italy at $5.2 million, making it the country's fourth-largest market opening for an animated film. Cars opened at #1 in Norway as well.
Cars is scheduled to open in Sweden and Denmark this coming weekend.
Overseas, Cars was #3 overall this past weekend, collecting $9.6 million in 35 countries. The film's overseas gross now stands at $157.6 million.
The partly animated Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties was in fourth place, drawing $7.2 million in 20 countries. Its overseas total is now $77.6 million.
In fifth place was Monster House, which bringing in an estimated $5.8 million from 24 countries for an overseas total of $29.1 million.
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Animator
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Aug 28, 2006, 9:53 PM
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Re: "Cars" sets record in China for animated film
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Hopefully China doesn't get too ban-happy or they might put a stop to the foreign animation of inanimate objects too! 
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