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Face/Off and international box office

Now I found some World Wide Box Office statistics for 1997. What we are looking for is Face/Off. In US it was number seven with $ 112.6 million and foreign Gross was $ 116.0 million making total $ 228.2 million. Not bad I could say when we remember that reported cost was $ 80 million. But that all we alredy know.

But in different countries Face/Off was on Box Office as follows (mentioned only if in top ten):

COUNTRY:	POSITION	BOX OFFICE
Bulgaria:	10.	56 286 Admissions
Estonia:	5.	25 674 Admissions
Hong Kong:	5.	$ 3.9
Iceland:	6.	30 625 Admissions
Indonesia:	9.
Latvia:	10.	22 000 Admissions
Netherlands:	9.	516 920 Admissions
Puerto Rico:	4.	$ 995 000
South Africa:	10.
Thailand:	4.	$ 1 375 000
Turkey:	9.	438 000 Admissions
USA & Canada:	7.	$ 112.6 000

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