Outside of North America, the film continued its hold on first place as the number one film worldwide, with an international cumulative box office to date of $25,742,647. The past weekend saw the film grossing $12.6 million at 2,378 dates in 35 territories, with "The Interpreter" in the top spot in most of the markets, including the U.K., Australia, Germany, China and Brazil.
Shot on location in Manhattan and Southern Africa, "The Interpreter" is the first motion picture in history to receive inside access to the United Nations' headquarters (which is officially international territory) in New York.
The escalating events begin when African-born U.N. translator Silvia Broome (Kidman) alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller (Penn), Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitness' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her.
