Universal and Seth MacFarlane's Ted, the tale of a trash-talking teddy bear, has become the world's highest grossing original R-rated comedy of all time.
Fox's Taken 2 had a great second week, racking up $41 million from 36 markets, which easily led the foreign grosses. Sony's Hotel Transylvania added $13.7 million from 25 territories and Paramount's Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted took in another $10.4 million from 30 markets, to up its foreign overall gross to $465.2 million and its worldwide to $681.5 million.
Ted took in nearly $14 million from 44 overseas markets last weekend, upping its international gross to $250.5 million. With that, and a 16-week domestic gross of $218.5 million, the worldwide gross for Ted now stands at $469 million. That eclipses the standard established by The Hangover, which took in $467.5 million worldwide in 2009.
Ted had a great second week in Italy, moving up to No. 1 with $4.2 million to raise its overall gross there to $8.9 million. Strong bows in France ($2.8 million) and Belgium ($1.8 million) helped too.
