Steller "Journey" continues abroad

It absolutely was apparent sailing for your second-straight weekend for "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," which again sailed up overseas box office. Pic designed a resilient $27.5 million inside the Feb. 17-19 weekend, pushing its worldwide cume to $130 million. The Warner Bros.-New Line family film got an early on overseas push, bowing in areas like Australia and Columbia four days while watching U.S. After which key areas, for instance China and Russia, are adding topnotch grosses. In China, the follow-up made $9.5 million within the second outing, throughout Russia, the pic totalled a soph-sesh take of $4.millions of -- an impressive 176% while watching original "Journey" within the similar local frame. Within The U . s . States, "Journey 2" held best among the domestic top, lower only a general 27%. Pic shown a lot more stickiness in Canada, falling 3%, due to the country's across the nation recognized family day Feb. 20. Toplining franchise newcomer Dwayne Manley, and allotted inside a reported $79 million, the follow-up already has greater than retrieved its production cost, grossing $183 million worldwide by Feb. 19. Warners and New Line have dedicated to a "Journey 3," using the sequel's success. Elsewhere round the family front, Disney's holiday holdover "The Muppets" shown resilient inside the U.K., rising a amazing 60% on Friday and Saturday within the second weekend over its opening a couple of days (Feb. 10-11). The film's three-day second-weekend total of $5.8 million in Blighty rang in 36% before its opening weekend. In just 10 days inside the U.K., the Disney pic, with $17.4 million, has outpaced Sony's "The Smurfs" by 36% and Warners' "Yogi Bear" by 193%. Pic has hit $59.millions of worldwide through Feb. 19, getting a worldwide cume of $147.3 million. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com