Fox Filmed Entertainment Has Biggest Worldwide Box Office Year In The History Of The Motion Picture Industry

$3.56 Billion in 2006 Theatrical Box Office

January 5, 2007

With the year-end numbers now tallied, Fox Filmed Entertainment reached an industry-high $3,559,521,971 in worldwide box office for 2006. This is the biggest worldwide box office gross for any slate of pictures in the history of the movie business. The milestone was a combined result of strong contributions from all of Fox’s existing production divisions, which delivered a diverse slate of pictures from tentpole films like ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND to THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA to the cutting-edge comedy of BORAT, and the modestly-budgeted comedy-drama LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Among the milestones in this historic achievement, the studio surpassed $2 billion in international receipts for the second time. The studio began its banner year with ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN reaching over $644 million in worldwide ticket sales -- topping all other animated features released in 2006. X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, the final chapter in the studio’s phenomenally successful “X-Men” trilogy, attained a worldwide box office of $456 million. Only a few weeks later, the modestly-budgeted THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA became one of the year’s biggest sleeper/counter-programming smashes, garnering a global take of over $319 million. In the fall came one of the year’s most subversive -- and wildly successful -- pictures: BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS TO MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN. Critics and audiences around the world embraced star-creator Sacha Baron Cohen’s film, which so far has taken in over $240 million in worldwide box office, earned two Golden Globe® nominations, and appeared on 75 critics’ top-ten lists. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, still in release throughout the world, has grossed over $60 Million domestically, garnered two Golden Globe® nominations and a host of other awards, and appeared on numerous critics ten-best lists. FFE finished the year with two big hits: ERAGON, which has grossed over $170 million worldwide so far and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, which has grossed over $127 million in domestic box-office. The Ben Stiller comedy has opened in only a few international territories, but has already amassed an impressive $60 million in these early engagements. Fox Chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos commented in a joint statement: “We have enormous pride in, and gratitude towards, the thousands of Fox Filmed Entertainment employees here and around the world who have made this historic achievement possible.” About Fox Filmed Entertainment One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

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