The first two are officially dead, and the last two are in that “we haven’t heard anything new about them in a while” category. Thanks to Warcraft, the true impact of a soft opening weekend in the U.S./Canada seems like less of an insta-killer than usual, but ask RoboCop, Terminator: Genisys, Pacific Rim and Edge of Tomorrow how well those international market-mandated sequels they’re supposed to be making are coming along. If it performs like 2012, it gets to $106m domestic and $491m worldwide. A comparable performance gets the Jeff Goldblum/Liam Hemsworth sequel to just $458m worldwide on a $165-$200m budget. That’s presumably not going to happen here. Transformers: Age of Extinction ended up with over $1 billion thanks to strong worldwide play (including $320m in China). If it plays like Transformers: Age of Extinction (which opened with $100 million on the same weekend in 2014 and closed with $245m), it will end up with $102m domestic, or less than the first film’s $104m debut back in 1996 (and in 2D). The best case scenario is that it performs closer to Roland Emmerich’s (vastly superior) White House Down (same weekend in 2013 and with a 3x weekend-to-final multiplier) and legs it to $124 million domestic.īut it’s just as likely that the fat lady has already sung and that the sequel will go quietly into the night and/or will vanish without a fight. Even with $15.8m in IMAX alone, including a record-breaking (for Fox) $10m in overseas IMAX grosses, that’s not good. The domestic opening weekend was a frankly terrible $41 million, less than the $50m Fri-Sun debut of the first film back in 1996. The film earned $99.5m in 57 overseas markets over the last five days as well, bringing its total opening weekend to $140.5m. There is a certain irony in the fact that 20 th Century Fox will be counting on the rest of the world to pull Independence Day: Resurgence out of the box office fire. The verdict is in: Independence Day: Resurgence‘s opening weekend was very not good.įrom Forbes (updated by me with the actual figures instead of estimated):
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |