Buena Vista International (BVI) had major cause to celebrate this week as its World War II epic Pearl Harbor crossed $200m in international box office gross, taking it to over $400m worldwide. Harbor, which was BVI's big hope in the summer blockbuster season, became the second film, which debuted in 2001, to pass the massive $400m mark worldwide, after The Mummy Returns which has grossed $415m to date. However hot on Harbor's heels computer-animated hit Shrek also passed the mammoth marker this week.

With an international tally of $210.2m and domestic figures of $195.1m, Pearl Harbor sailed to a worldwide total gross of $405.3m. With it's international figure surpassing the domestic gross and several Eastern European countries still to receive the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film it could have some legs left. The film, which stars Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, and Kate Beckinsale alongside Oscar winning actors Cuba Gooding Jr and Jon Voight, opened in Hungary at the weekend to become that Eastern European territory's fourth biggest opening of all time behind Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, The Mummy Returns and Taxi 2. Distributed in Hungary by InterCom, Harbor pulled in 64,471 admissions ($186,100) on its opening three-day weekend.

Shrek's international gross is still a long way from matching its domestic take of $259.5m, but that hasn't stopped it hitting the worldwide $400m marker. Still to play in several Scandinavian and Eastern European territories Shrek has taken $134.5m for UIP, which handles the film in the majority of the international territories. Other distributors of the animated feature, which features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow, include CJ Entertainment which handles Shrek in territories including South Korea (it has grossed $6.3m in Seoul alone) and Hong Kong ($2.2m so far).

While none of this year's films is yet threatening Mission: Impossible 2's worldwide gross, which reached over $535m, the fact that there are three films already to pass the $400m mark compares well to 2000, which had just three all year; M:I2, Gladiator and Cast Away. 2001 still has several potential high earners to come, not least end-of-year behemoths Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (Sorceror's Stone domestically) and The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson's trilogy.