Despite dropping from top spot at the International box office last week, Katherine's romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth" continues to perform well in foreign markets. The movie took $7.9 million from 2,275 screens in 63 markets at the weekend, elevating the overseas gross to $81.3m. Domestically the movie has taken $89 million to date, giving a total box office of over $170 million worldwide.

Katherine on the set of The Ugly Truth

Weekend debut highlights came from Greece, which delivered the number one spot with $535,000 from 52 screens and South Africa’s number one of $280,000 from a similar number of venues. The movie also added $2.5m in takings from Germany for second place and $8.5m after two weeks and it ranks third in Brazil on $4.3m a month after release.

The latest data also puts the film on $1.6m in first place in Austria, $1.7m in Switzerland, $945,000 in fourth place in Holland, and $1.4m and first place in Taiwan, all after two weekends. Elsewhere, The Ugly Truth has amassed $4.2m in Mexico after six, $1m in Belgium after three, and $1.3m in Venezuela after four weeks.