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For most of these mega summer flicks, the foreign box office is even more important than the US grosses. In the case of Transformers according to box office mojo:
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $174,746,000 30.4%
+ Foreign: $400,900,000 69.6%
= Worldwide: $575,646,000
This is the report for Godzilla -- and the film is yet to open in Japan:
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $197,902,000 40.5%
+ Foreign: $291,000,000 59.5%
= Worldwide: $488,902,000
Both films of course also have additional revenues from product and ad placements, multitudes of toys, Tshirts, etc. It will be interesting to see if there are studio disappointments with regard to foreign box office receipts over the next few weeks.
But there is no question that domestic receipts are way way down:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/summer-box-office-analyst-cuts-716886
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-whats-behind-summers-716853
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Bah, I'm not into summer movies. I'm waiting for fall with new films coming from Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson and, cross my fingers, Malick. 
Yes! Knight of Cups will have a U.S. release this year.
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That new Go-Bots film has now earned 30 odd million MORE!!! in China than the USA!!
Even their taste in Bad Films is now eclipsing the rest of the world!
Who can beat the Chinese?? Cartman was right 
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Action films of one sought or another has always been desirable for many of the movie going public. But there is one slant on this issue I find left out and I feel it is when one thinks about it a large part of the film industry. the change of society. If you take a good part of the western world say [sound films as an example] from the 30's till the mid 60's. You have a world where in many ways the youth was limited in what they received or could have from their parents in their leisure time. However gradually since the late 60's in which society did a turnabout, unique in recent history of humankind. There has been a giant change in the wants and the needs the youth want and get by the lax attitude many parents offered to their kids. Just think if a average parent now let's their kid go to movies 5 times more a year then the old days, times that by millions and millions. You see this with birthday presents, Christmas presents, going to sporting events , everywhere. Now add on modern technology the video revolution, internet etc etc. Material things, gadgets galore, for the youth, they want it they get for the most part. I remember in the 80's for every film my family rented out for an adult, we must have rented out GREASE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, ETC ETC, 30 times over the adult oriented film. Well the answer is obvious what market kept the video store open. Of course a book can and might have been written on this but the companies make what the consumer wants, can't blame them.So now the Eastern world is following suit with their youth. You get what the majority wants, most of the time.
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