Fifty Shades of Grey has crossed the $500 million mark at the global box office in a sizeable victory for Universal, which spent $40 million on the film adaptation of EL James ‘ steamy, bondage-laced novel. Generally speaking, the movie has done best in countries where the book was a bestseller, led by the U.K . and Ireland, $46.9 million, Germany, $33.7 million, France, $24.5 million, and Brazil $24.2 million.
