Top 10 foreign box office hits of the 21st century

Over the past decade North American movie attendance has been getting smaller and smaller while at the same time attendance in the rest of the world has exploded as modern theaters have sprung up all over what used to be considered the 'developing world'. In fact "foreign", (non-North American), box office has become such a huge factor these days that a movie like "Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides" can be a genuine disappointment at the domestic box office yet still gross more than a billion dollars worldwide because of its gi-normous foreign haul.

So here are the top 10 foreign box office hits of the 21st century (to date).

Title	Year	Non-North American Earnings
1) Avatar	2009-10	$2.02 Billion
2) Harry Potter - DH2	2011	$947 million
3) Pirates of the Caribbean - OST	2011	$798 million
4) Transformers 3	2011	$767 million
5) Lord of the Rings - ROTK	2003	$742 million
6) Ice Age - DotD	2009	$690 million
7) Alice in Wonderland	2010	$690 million
8) Harry Potter - DH1	2010	$660 million
9) Harry Potter - SS	2001	$657 million
10) Pirates of the Caribbean - AWE	2007	$654 million