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　　《阿凡达》3D科幻史诗片《阿凡达》在俄罗斯上映还不到三周，就已经成为该国有史以来最成功的影片，截至目前的票房收入为5,550万美元:在未来世界，人类为取得潘多拉星球的资源，开启了阿凡达计划。前海军队员杰克奉命出发，然而这最终是一段探索与救赎的旅程。

　　Less than three weeks after ’Avatar’ hit theaters, the high-tech science fiction epic is already the most successful movie ever in Russia, with $55.5 million in box-office receipts.
　　In France, the movie has raked in $85.6 million -- more money than in any country besides the U.S -- while Germans have bought $56.1 million worth of ’Avatar’ tickets.
　　The movie’s resonance with audiences abroad is a crucial propellant behind ’Avatar’s’ ascent to the box-office stratosphere, where it topped the $1 billion mark in ticket sales this past weekend.
　　Two thirds of the total box-office receipts so far have been generated abroad. ’Avatar’ sold $352.1 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada after 17 days, while its international haul stood at $670.2 million as of the weekend, according to Hollywood.com.
　　Foreign audiences routinely flock to Hollywood ’event’ movies like the ’Harry Potter’ series, ’The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and the ’Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise. Those films also took in about two-thirds of their revenue overseas -- underscoring the growing importance of foreign audiences for American studios that have seen their revenue from DVD sales dwindle.