Yeah the summer movie season is only about halfway through, though as you wind to August expected returns dwindle. But a good chunk of your list, and others you didn’t list, should pull off over half a billion in total (including foreign) grosses. The tent poles are alive and well, even with a few breaks.
Definitely; foreign box-office isn’t to be ignored.
I’m thinking “Pacific Rim” is going to be a hit - maybe even a blockbuster. Del Toro is a good director, and he’s got a solid cast on this film, including Ron Perlman and Idris Elba. Nowadays, there’s a whole generation of kiddies who grew up with Japanese pop-culture tropes like kaiju and mecha being a staple of American pop-culture as well. At the very least, it’s more omnipresent these days than it used to be.
Back in the 70s, it was only us ‘nerds’ who were familiar with Space Battleship Yamato, Macross, and Ultraman. Those things are now far more well-known to American audiences. I remember when “Akira” was released in the US in the late 80s on home video - it was known mostly by word of mouth. Now the films of Hayao Miyazaki have won the Academy Award and Pokémon and InuYasha are pretty familiar to most American kids.