distinction between a hit and flop movie

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Nowdays ,many movies come and go every week,despite the crazy figures given out by production houses like sony,dreamworks etc,the public is really confused whether the given movie is a success or not,take a case in example,consider the movie "2012",which had a stupendous release all over the world and had a reported budget of around 250 million dollars,consider this,the movie made only around 180 million in it's home country that is USA,which is way less than it's budget,but it made a reported gross of 480 million all over the world,so,in my book i would say that the movie has been rejected outright by the us public,so it can be at all called a universal blockbuster,ya depending upon it's release in the respective countries it can be called a hit or superhit depending upon it's run and it's buying budget in that respective country,So it's a flop in USA,another example is terminator salvation which could make only 130 million in usa.so next time you see the advertisement stating that it's a huge blockbuster,you should straight go to boxofficemojo.com and search the gross for the respective movie and decide for yourself,so check the facts before deciding anything!