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This story first made an appearance within the November. 18 problem from the Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommendsForeign Box Office: 'Tintin' Takes No. 1 Place for Second Straight Weekend to leap $100 MilSteven Spielberg, Peter Jackson's 'Adventures of Tintin' to shut Out AFI Fest (Exclusive)'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Full Trailer Debuts (Video)'Happy Ft 2' Teaser Trailer (Video) With Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin stimulating the foreign box office throughout a normally quiet pre-holiday period, Hollywood's six major galleries take presctiption track to attain record revenue for 2011. PHOTOS: 'Adventures of Tintin' U.K. Premiere That's great news thinking about the sluggish domestic marketplace, where grosses year-to-date are $8.5 billion, lower a lot more than 4 % in the same period last year. (The domestic figure is perfect for all films, including nonstudio game titles.) Through March. 31, the six majors, buoyed by three dimensional and overflowing marketplaces including Russia and South america, have accumulated combined worldwide grosses of $11.7 billion -- just $1 billion shy of 2010's record $12.7 billion benchmark. PHOTOS: Stills From 'Adventures of Tintin' With numerous holiday tentpoles waiting to bow, there's little question the majors will soar past this past year's milestone. Thanksgiving photos include Warner Bros.' Happy Ft Two and Summit's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1, while Christmas brings Fox's Alvin and also the Chipmunks: Nick-Wrecked, Warner Bros.' follow up A Virtual Detective: A Game Title of Shadows and Vital's Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol. "The worldwide market keeps growing, and i believe it's likely to be a really large Christmas," states Vital Worldwide leader Andrew Cripps. Vital leads those for 2011 by having an overseas take of $2.626 billion up to now, then Warner Bros. ($2.5 billion), Disney ($2.054 billion), Fox ($1.925 billion), The new sony ($1.493 billion) and Universal ($1.095 billion). The new sony and Vital's three dimensional Tintin, in addition to DreamWorks Animation and Vital's three dimensional Puss in Boots, are significant in showing that Hollywood can open its year-finish holiday films earlier overseas, where you will find midterm school breaks in many nations. Tintin doesn't open within the U.S. until Christmas, however it made another $40.8 million throughout the November. 4-6 weekend hitting $125.3 million inside a dozen days. "[Tintin] proves that you could to produce large movie in this time around period," states Cripps. "We ought to be educated to depend on the 12-month buying and selling period to ensure that the large holiday game titles aren't all jammed in to the same slots." Related Subjects Steven Spielberg Worldwide Box Office Happy Ft 2 The Adventures of Tintin Alvin and also the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked