Warner Bros Pictures International had a record year in 2014, grossing $ 3.17 billion. The studio said today that it beat its previous best of $ 3.14B in 2013 by 1%. The haul was 
led by Interstellar with $ 472M, which became Christopher Nolan’s biggest film ever in more than 1o territories including an eye-popping $ 74M in South Korea. The studio’s No. 2 pic was The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, which has made $ 446M thus far and hits China on January 23. Godzilla ranked third with $ 328M, followed by Edge Of Tomorrow ($ 269M, much better than its $ 100.2M domestic haul) and The Lego Movie ($ 211M), which was the No. 1 film of 2014 in the UK. A pair of 2013 holdovers — The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug ($ 269M) and 300: Rise Of An Empire ($ 231M) — topped Lego’s 2014 tally.
Among non-U.S. fare, Japan’s Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends, the two-part sequels to 2012’s Rurouni Kenshin, drew $ 53M and $ 42M in their respective back-to-back releases. And Argentina’s Wild Tales, which is shortlisted for a Foriegn Language Film Oscar nomination, picked up $ 28M for WBPI.
Nancy Tartaglione
