MUMBAI: Sony‘s disaster movie 2012 releases today, the globe over.

So much is the euphoria surrounding the film that it is almost certain that it will edge out This Is It as the number one film overseas.

On This Is It, Sony announced that the Michael Jackson tribute film had crossed the $200 million mark. Roughly $142 million of that comes from the international box-office with the remaining about $61 million coming from North America.
Latest figures put This Is It on $27.2 million in Japan, $14.3 million in the UK, $12.1 million in each of Germany and France and $7.2 million in Australia.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International that released A Christmas Carol in Japan, Spain and Colombia expect the film, currently on $16.6 million to surge past the $25 million mark.

On the other hand, Up reached $368.4 million while G-Force stands at $154.3 million.

UPI‘s Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock opens in the UK and Brazil on 13 November, while Pedro Almodovar‘s Broken Embraces releases in Mexico on the same day.