‘Terminator Salvation’ Defeats ‘Star Trek’ Internationally
Terminator Salvation continued to do wonders for Sony over the weekend by staying on top of the international box office with an estimated $46.1 million dollar haul. The film stole the no.1 spot in 30 different countries.
The fourth Terminator film is now heading towards cracking the $300M mark having raked in $165.5 million on the international circuit and $113M on the US circuit.
Although Star Trek is currently the highest grossing movie of 2009 as a result of a dominating US box office performance, Terminator Salvation has now well and truly eclipsed it on the international circuit with Star Trek’s international tally beginning to level out at $119M.
Further, Star Trek has now exhausted its release territories whilst Terminator Salvation has yet to be released in Mexico, one of the top 10 international markets. Although Star Trek’s total haul is still a way off (currently around $350M), the possibility remains that Terminator Salvation could eclipse Star Trek’s overall gross sometime in August (after its Mexican release on July 31).
Figures via THR and Box Office Mojo and are subject to further updates
June 16th, 2009 at 11:09 am
good this movie deserves it great action flick
June 16th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Star Trek was a better film, but you know, Terminator Salvation rocked too. Considering all the hating going on (that I personally don’t understand), I’m pleased to see Terminator Salvation is doing well in foreign countries. Here Ben Stiller is more popular than ass kicking future robots. At least the foreigners have their priorities right
June 16th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Star Trek Sucked… it was a disgrace to the franchise, it was a stupid movie, and the fact that it succeeded so much in the U.S is just a shame.
Terminator Salvation however is awesome, it’s respectful to the franchise, and it’s so much better in all levels. Especially Plot and Visual Effects. It should win the Oscar for Visual Effects and Sound for sure.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
yeah i think people should at least say the movie is decent for marcus kyle and the bad azz t-800 alone
i thought star trek was pretty good probably will pick up the blu-ray
June 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Wow, the first thread I’ve seen where everyone isn’t acting like sheep hating on Terminator Salvation. Good to see because the movie was really quite enjoyable, especially as an action flick. I’ll grab it on DVD – and I’ll grab Star Trek too. In fact, add Wolverine to that mix.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:56 am
you know Guy i think all 3 of those movies are pretty good i know wolverine is hated on too.
I have heard McG cut over 30 minutes from salvation so the deleted scenes might help the story a bit and be more dark and violent i think theres a deleted scene where marcus kills someone with a screw driver awesome
June 17th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Yeah Ray, I’m looking forward to the DVD. There’s something on this site about the DVD having those scenes you mention. I can’t really be bothered searching for it though, I’ll just buy it and post once I’ve seen it.
