After a disappointing run at the box office in the U.S., Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was saved by brisk business in other parts of the world, eventually prompting Legendary Pictures to announce a sequel. At the time, fans rejoiced and all was right with the world. However, there is also an unfortunate flip side to the insane amount of money that Hollywood blockbusters are making overseas these days: sometimes movies that deserve to flop end up getting saved as well. This week we are hearing that Terminator Genisys has just opened big in China… so big, in fact, that it might convince Paramount to greenlight another sequel. Is it too much to ask for them to only release the sequel in China as well?

According to Forbes, Terminator Genisys just opened to an amazing $27.4 million in China on its first day alone. That is the fourth biggest single day debut ever in that country behind Furious 7, The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Transformers: Age of Extinction. Based on some of those other films, it could end up earning somewhere in the vicinity of $200 million from China alone, which would bring its worldwide total to $524 million. If that happens, I think you can bet that Arnold will be back.

What’s interesting is that Terminator Genisys hasn’t even grossed $100 million domestically and could end up being the first film ever to earn over $400 million worldwide with less than $100 million in the U.S. I suspect we will start seeing a lot more of these disparities over the next few years and it will be interesting to see what they do with the Hollywood sequels that no one wants in North America. Many studios now open their big blockbusters overseas first, but will we ever see studios completely skip an American release altogether? Stranger things have happened. Are you still holding out hope for a Terminator Genisys sequel?