The foreign market is not so foreign anymore.When Warner Bros. Pictures chalked up an industry record of $2.2 billion last year in boxoffice revenue from the overseas market, $167 million of that total came from the release of foreign local-language films. Among a slew of local-language films released in 2004, Warners retrieved $31 million in boxoffice revenue from France alone for the French-language A Very Long Engagement, $20 million in Japan for the Chinese-language House of Flying Daggers, and $17 million in Turkey for the native-language G.O.R.A. Other examples of foreign-language activity by the majors saw Universal, via international distributor UIP, extract about $51 million from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the German-language Seven Dwarfs. Buena Vista International is tabulating $8.2 million to date for Germany's Barfus and $10.5 million for Wild Bunch 2, and Sony is picking up $7 million in Brazil for the native-language Cazuza.
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