Lucasfilm gave us a Star Wars trilogy starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac, and Force Awakens earned $2.068 billion worldwide. Abrams and friends should use the preordained blockbuster status of Star Wars VII to rebut conventional wisdom about who could star in global blockbusters. Way before anyone had been cast in The Force Awakens, I argued J.J. Like a lot of 80’s and 90’s stars, but he’s been trying to “come back” for longer than he ever was “back.”Īpplying the Force Awakens formula didn’t work because Terminator is not Star Wars. Think, quality notwithstanding, The Sixth Day, Collateral Damage, The Last Stand, Escape Plan, Sabotage, Expendables 3 and Terminator: Genisys. Except for Terminator 3 ($433 million on a $170 million budget in 2003) and Expendables 2 ($314 million on a $100 million budget in 2012), every other Schwarzenegger vehicle since Eraser has disappointed or outright bombed. That movie, his first since his much-panned performance in Batman & Robin and heart surgery two years prior, was sold as a comeback vehicle, but it underwhelmed with $211 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.
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While the kind of movie star that puts butts in the seats is in painfully short supply these days, to where even Will Smith needs a franchise/IP play, Schwarzenegger has been struggling since End of Days in 1999. China didn’t like Genisys any more than we did, and Dark Fate opened with $29 million this weekend for a likely over/under $55 million total.ĭiablo 4 Is Live Now In Early Access Here s Everything You Need To KnowĪrnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t been a movie star in 20 years. Terminator: Genisys made headlines by opening with a near-record (at the time) $27 million opening day, but A) it was the end of a local blackout period and B) it flamed out with $113 million.
But China can say “Yeah, once was enough” as well as we can, and the last X-Men movie only earned $65 million in China. X-Men: Apocalypse earned a $121 million in China, which pushed the film over $500 million and made Dark Phoenix look like a safe bet. Warcraft earned $219 million in 2016 in China, but it earned $90 million of that in the first 48 hours, showing that Chinese moviegoers didn’t like it any better than we did (it was their Batman v Superman). Considering the damage done to the franchise by the last two films, and the new normal (where folks no longer go to the movies just to go to the movies), Dark Fate needed to be Fury Road-level good to win folks back.Ĭontrary to popular belief, Chinese moviegoers do have taste. But “the best Terminator movie since T2” consensus doesn’t mean much when most folks hated the last two and liked or were indifferent toward Rise of the Machines. The film has its pleasures, such as strong performances, a solid dialogue-driven second act, some big, if muddled and poorly edited, action sequences. So, the word got out early and that word was… fine? Look, I’m on the “no” side of the fence, but only just barely (I like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines just fine, thank you much). The reviews were better, but not good enough.įox opened Terminator: Dark Fate a week early in 12 overseas territories, critics saw and reviewed the film well in advance of its global rollout.
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