 It set several American box office records , including highest grossing opening weekend for a non @-@ CG animated film and for a film based on a television series , surpassing Mission : Impossible II . It was also the third @-@ highest grossing opening weekend for an animated film . It opened at the top of the international box office taking $ 96 million from 71 overseas territories , including $ 27 @.@ 8 million in the United Kingdom , the second @-@ highest UK opening ever for a 20th Century Fox film . It contributed to over half of the record 5 @.@ 5 million people attending British cinemas that weekend . In Australia , it grossed $ 13 @.@ 2 million , the third @-@ highest opening weekend in the country , and the highest for an animated film . The United Kingdom is the highest @-@ grossing country for the film outside the US with a $ 78 @,@ 426 @,@ 654 gross overall , with Germany in second place with a $ 36 @,@ 289 @,@ 250 gross overall . The film closed on December 20 , 2007 with a gross of $ 183 @,@ 135 @,@ 014 in the United States and Canada and a worldwide gross of $ 527 @,@ 068 @,@ 706 . It was the eighth @-@ highest grossing film worldwide and the twelfth @-@ highest grossing in the United States and Canada of 2007 . 
