James Cameron's 3D re release of Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet starer Titanic is a runaway hit in China, where the movie has scored one of the best opening gross of all time in debuting to $58 million.
Transformers: Dark from the Moon held the previous record, opening to $55 million last year in China on its way to grossing north of $145 million.
The good news for Titanic doesn't end there. The re release may have been a slow starter last weekend, but it has since taken off, which includes a 12-day worldwide cum of nearly $191 million through Sunday and pushing the movie's existence gross past the $2 billion mark.
Owing to the China opening, Titanic 3D easily won the weekend race on the foreign box office, grossing $88.2 million from 69 markets for a global cum of $146.4 million. The movie beat Universal's Battleship, which earned a projected $58 million as it rolled out in its first 26 markets (Battleship doesn't open in China until next weekend).
IMAX runs contributed $5.8 million of Titanic's global weekend gross, including north of $3 million in China alone. I Max's 12-day cum is $13.6 million, well sooner than expectations.
In North America, Titanic 3D came in No. 4 for the weekend, falling only 22 percent to an estimated $11.6 million for the cum of $44.5 million.
Titanic 3D's global cum of $190.9 million eclipses the $178.2 million earned worldwide by Disney's 3D release of The Lion King last year. Lion King 3D was a box office hit, grossing $94.2 million domestically and $84 million worldwide for a total $178.2 million.
The 3D conversion of Titanic cost $18 million, and was personally supervised by Cameron.
In China, the film's six-day opening gross is 32 percent prior the lifetime earnings of Titanic, which cumed $44 million when released in China in 1998, itself a record for more than a decade.
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