Surprising. You should also realize that Twilight was able to do $200m.
Hunger Games has way more appeal overseas, especially in Asian countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, etc. This is being released in China, no? Then that should do over $40m on there alone.
Now, the scary thing is that if the Chinese people do pick up on its themes and relate to it, it will be gargantuan.
$175m, again, does not make much sense. And you wanna know why? Because you, CJohn, are simply predicting out of your ass instead of studying what specific countries enjoy more.
It will do $50m-$60m in the UK and Australia alone.