Schwarzenegger’s Terminator Genisys is BACK at #1 in the Box Office!

We knew Terminator Genisys would do very well in China but we didn’t expect it to do a phenomenal 27.4 million dollars there in just one day! It took three days to make that amount in the United States but the Chinese people care more about the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger and his great sci-fi action film than they care about American-loved dinosaurs. That’s right; Genisys even beat Jurassic World in China for their opening day releases!

Genisys also conquered Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation at the International box office but Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions can’t complain considering theses are both of their properties. 27.4 million makes it the 4th best opening day ever for a Hollywood movie in China, just behind Furious 7, The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Last week, Schwarzenegger attended the Terminator Genisys Chinese premiere followed by an appearance on The Voice and the promotion and love towards the fans paid off big time! 

The international box office count is now at $264 million, making the worldwide total currently just over $353 million. For Terminator fans, this is excellent news as we’re guessing China may now contribute over 125 million to Schwarzenegger’s latest, bringing the final tally to a very likely 450-475 million.  

We are told that China’s movie-goers are loving the film and very enthusiastic and entertained crowds are coming out of the theater wanting Terminator 6.  Reviews by real Terminator fans, Arnold fans, Fandango user reviews and even general movie audiences were all very favorable for Genisys so it’s a mystery why film critics didn’t connect with the film the way audiences did. 

 

Paramount and Skydance slotted a second Terminator film for May 19th, 2017 (though we expect the date will change given that Star Wars VIII is now the very next week) and they’d be crazy not to move forward with a new one knowing how badass Arnold could be portrayed with his “upgrade” abilities for the sequel.  Not to mention, the film’s writer, Patrick Lussier, tells TheArnoldFans.com that Schwarzenegger will be BAD in a part of the sequel! The best Terminator is a BAD one. And Arnold is and will forever be bad to the bone!

Oh, and Paramount/Skydance, We loved this film but if you want American audiences back, two things: 1) Bad Arnold  2) Rated R! You won’t need to show too much in trailers to hook audiences knowing its rated R and there is BAD ARNOLD with upgrades!