‘Terminator Salvation’ Rules The Foreign Box Office
Great news for Terminator fans. Terminator Salvation has raked in $67.5M across 66 territories over the weekend giving it a dominating rule of the international box office.
It more than doubled the earnings of its closest rival Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($26.7M).
Terminator Salvation also nabbed the third biggest weekend take in the international market for 2009 to date, trailing only Angels and Demons and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
It scored the 10th biggest opening in history for a Hollywood film in Russia with $8M.
Additionally, with a total international haul of $97.2M Terminator Salvation’s foreign box office is now only $8M short of the US domestic total and is sure to surpass it by the end of this week.
It is now running 21% ahead of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines for the same territories at the same point and Sony note that T3 went on to earn $283M internationally (more than double the US take).
Domestic and International tallies have now exceeded the film’s reported $200M budget.
The chances that we might be fortunate to get Terminator 5 just went up.
Source: Variety
June 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
This is really good news for the franchise. I think that the odds for T5 just went up quite a bit, since the film is now much more likely to make a profit.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Yeah. Despite the wide ranging and polarizing views out there, I personally loved Terminator Salvation – I thought it was an excellent action film and would be very happy to hear McG has a shot at a sequel.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:14 am
TSCC fans, take part in fan efforts to bring back the Sarah Connor Chronicles. List of some of these:
http://terminatorwiki.fox.com/page/Resistance+Recruitment+-+TSCC+Will+Be+Back+Campaigns
June 9th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
i loved Salvation
June 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Same. I really don’t understand why it has so many people talking ill about it, and frankly I don’t want them to explain it to me. I thought the film was an awesome action flick and a great addition to the Terminator series.
I particularly loved the explanation given for how John Connor got his scar.
I loved the irony that Skynet’s plan was the ultimate cause of John Connor becoming leader of the resistance.
I loved the gritty feel to it and the very robotic feel to the Terminators.
It would be easy to pick out a few things that didn’t make sense, but what for? The film was a great action movie and I loved it.
If you haven’t seen it, ignore the polarized viewpoints and go along to enjoy a top action movie.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
yeah you could pick a couple things that didnt make sense but of course its A MOVIE no movie is close to real life really.