Worldwide. Money is money afterall.
Tell that to Aardman, who were dropped like a stone by Dreamworks when Wallace & Gromit made $56m in the US but $192m internationally. Or tell it to Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright, who watched Shaun of the Dead—against all the odds—hit #7 in the US top-ten, despite playing in about three theatres, magically hold that position for a second week, and then have the distributor decide the take wasn't enough to go wide.
US take is hugely important in the industry, far more than what happens elsewhere—doubly so if the movie is first released in the US or has a simultaneous worldwide release.
Elsewhere, the biggest thing that could scupper the movie's success is the previous film.
That's why I'm really concerned about the rating of the upcoming movie.
Unfortunately almost all of the time ratings play a HUGE role on how well a movie does in this country (U.S.A.) The last really big R movies in this country were the MATRIX flicks & that one all the Christians went to go see were a hippie got the crap literally beat out of him and crucified to two by fours.
That's why I'm surprised they are using real cursing instead of the 'future' cursing.
I mean why handicap this movie anymore then it is? (unknown in this country except for that crap from 95) I mean I would like to see this movie succeed to a point were we can see bigger budgeted sequels in theaters and tell bigger stories like the 'Apocalypse War, The Cursed Earth, The Dark judges, The Devil You Know, America, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Total War' and not low budgeted direct to DVD crap with the generic 'villain of the week' story(if were lucky).
