“Maleficent” reigns supreme in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where the Walt Disney Studios fantasy opened in the top slot Wednesday on its first day of release.
由迪士尼影業(yè)出品的奇幻電影《沉睡魔咒》（Maleficent）自本周三在英國和愛爾蘭震撼上映以來便迅速登上了票房榜首的位置。

The fantasy epic stars Angelina Jolie and centers on the origins of the wicked sorceress from “Sleeping Beauty,” dramatizing her fall from grace.
該片由安吉麗娜·茱莉（Angelina Jolie）主演，以經(jīng)典童話《睡美人》（Sleeping Beauty）中的黑女巫為原型，講述了原本美麗純潔的年輕女子瑪琳菲森（Maleficent，茱莉飾演）在遭受無情的背叛后，逐漸墮落成邪惡女巫的故事。

Audiences across the pond were eager to find out what turned Maleficent bad, contributing $2.5 million in ticket sales, and topping what “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” did on its first day of release in those countries. It was more than double the debuts of similar fantasy fare such as “Oz The Great and Powerful” and “Snow White and The Huntsman.”
“是什么徹底毀了原本善良的瑪琳菲森!？”觀眾們在觀影時都急切地想知道答案。該片在英國和愛爾蘭首映當(dāng)天，票房就達到了250萬美元，比同類電影《魔境仙蹤》（Oz The Great and Powerful）和《白雪公主與獵人》（Snow White and The Huntsman）首映當(dāng)天高出兩倍還多，更是超越了《美國隊長2：寒冬戰(zhàn)士》（Captain America: The Winter Soldier）在這兩個國家首映時的表現(xiàn)。

“Maleficent” opens domestically Thursday in select screenings before rolling out across nearly 4,000 locations. It also debuts day-and-date in 47 territories and across 13,011 locations, including such markets as France, Australia, Spain and Mexico.
《沉睡魔咒》于本周四先在美國國內(nèi)進行了小范圍試映，而后才在其余的4000家院線上映；同步上映的地區(qū)還包括法國、澳大利亞、西班牙和墨西哥在內(nèi)的47個國家，13011家院線。

The film opened Wednesday in Italy and the Philippines where it became the biggest opening day in Jolie’s career in those territories. However, Disney did not provide box office grosses for those countries, making the extent of that accomplishment difficult to quantify.
而該片在意大利和菲律賓的首映票房也是朱莉所有在這兩個國家上映過的電影中最高的。然而，迪士尼影業(yè)并不打算將這兩個國家的票房收入計入該片的票房總收入，于是要精確分析在這兩個國家的上映情況還是個難題。