The Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner starrer opened in five overseas markets on Wednesday and Thursday.
Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1 grossed at least $8.9 million from a handful of foreign markets on Wednesday and Thursday, including scoring the third best opening of the year in France with $3.8 million.
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The only movies to post bigger first-day bows in France were Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows: Part 2.
The first screenings at the Le Grand Rex theater in Paris were sold out, with screaming fans drowning out the dialogue throughout the movie.
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Breaking Dawn also came in No. 1 in Italy, where it grossed at least $2.3 million (Summit reports that numbers are stilll coming in from distributors).
In Belgium, Breaking Dawn dethroned Tintin, grossing $786K, or nearly 64% of all business.
Breaking Dawn grossed an impressive $1.3 million in midnight grosses in Australia. In Sweden, the penultimate pic in the blockbuster franchise grossed $757K.
The movie begins its North American assault at midnight Friday, as well as continuing to rollout overseas.
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