Well as it turns out most of the world ONLY cares about Imdb and very few even know about RT and that few includes people in USA and some other countries.
Clearly you weren't using the internet when Paul walker died in dec 2013, for over a few months everybody was talking about his death and how they will miss him... So on.
And his name was heavily used in the promotion of FF7 and everybody around the world got invested in the movie because of him...
Nobody remembers worldwide gross? For your kind information most of the people outside of USA remember worldwide gross and very few care about DOM gross.