In the words of Tony Stark, clean slate protocol. New year, new thread as we follow the good and bad fortunes of the years movie releases.
Sony have been after a hit of their own for a very long time and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is delivering that in spades.
The $90m movie is now up to a total of $519m gross which means you can definitely expect more movies in the series going forward.
Next up, Insidious 4: The Last Key. I'd expected this to fare poorly given the move a January release and its low key launch but it managed to outpace the third entry to deliver the second biggest opening of the franchise. Made for just $10m, the film opened to $49m with more openings yet to happen.
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi opened in China this week and continued the pattern of decline that market has shown for the franchise earning less that Rogue One's opening. However the numbers added to its international tally and has taken the film to being the thirteenth highest grossing of all time with $1.205bn worldwide. By the end of this coming week it will enter the top 10 list where only Avengers holds more than one spot to its franchise.
Meanwhile, Kingsman: The Golden Circle had its japanese late launch which took the film up to $400m worldwide. This total is now just less than $14m from matching the first film.
Sony have been after a hit of their own for a very long time and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is delivering that in spades.
The $90m movie is now up to a total of $519m gross which means you can definitely expect more movies in the series going forward.
Next up, Insidious 4: The Last Key. I'd expected this to fare poorly given the move a January release and its low key launch but it managed to outpace the third entry to deliver the second biggest opening of the franchise. Made for just $10m, the film opened to $49m with more openings yet to happen.
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi opened in China this week and continued the pattern of decline that market has shown for the franchise earning less that Rogue One's opening. However the numbers added to its international tally and has taken the film to being the thirteenth highest grossing of all time with $1.205bn worldwide. By the end of this coming week it will enter the top 10 list where only Avengers holds more than one spot to its franchise.
Meanwhile, Kingsman: The Golden Circle had its japanese late launch which took the film up to $400m worldwide. This total is now just less than $14m from matching the first film.
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