Actually the totals I gave included the worldwide box office.
The domestic totals minus the foreign box office break down to:
- Watchmen - $107 million
- Sucker Punch - $36 million
Which paints an even uglier picture, which I didn’t need to do when the combined gross of foreign and domestic for both was ugly enough.
Sorry, I was thinking of 300, which made $460M on a $65M budget, and MoS, which made $668M on a $225M budget.
MOS was a success but not a very big one (a film typically needs to make at least double its budget to break even). That’s why WB added Batman for the next one.