but doesn’t a u.s.a. film get less dollars via non stateside markets ??

isn’t the number more like 25-28% of the foreign money ???

so yeah, dollars/is dollars. just the more you can get in the states/the better…

what’s wrong with a movie being popular in another country? $$ is $$, homie.

Well, I’ve just always considered a film that didn’t make its budget back in the US alone, a failure. It’s probably not as we can see here, but it just feels like one. For instance, Kong still hasn’t made it’s budget back and yet they are saying success.

I don’t think have to rely is the right term, their planned to rely on it. For the best part of the last decade (bar Star Wars) pretty much every blockbuster film has taken the majority of their box office earnings from non-US markets. These mega budget films haven’t been able to survive on US domestic takings alone for a long time, and are planned with the international box office in mind (the Fast film series in particular). The creative merits of these $250m films are probably more something to be worried about than whether they can draw in American cinema goers.