GDT says he has an idea for a sequel, but nothing has been greenlit (perhaps they're waiting on home media)...
And to make a profit you need to make double the production budget and marketing budget. The production budget is known to be $190m, it made $407m. Warner Bros. got around $203.5m from the film. Subtract the $190m spent making it and you're left with $13.5m, there's no way spent that or less on marketing.
To put it simply $190m is far too expensive for an original property, especially one which is being marketed with the bad (but not quite so bad it's good) line "Today we cancelling the apocalypse",
Unless Warner Bros. only spent $13.5m on marketing it worldwide, it has not turned a profit yet. It almost certainly will with home video, but it's not quite out the woods yet.
GDT says he has an idea for a sequel, but nothing has been greenlit (perhaps they're waiting on home media)...
And to make a profit you need to make double the production budget and marketing budget. The production budget is known to be $190m, it made $407m. Warner Bros. got around $203.5m from the film. Subtract the $190m spent making it and you're left with $13.5m, there's no way spent that or less on marketing.
To put it simply $190m is far too expensive for an original property, especially one which is being marketed with the bad (but not quite so bad it's good) line "Today we cancelling the apocalypse",
Unless Warner Bros. only spent $13.5m on marketing it worldwide, it has not turned a profit yet. It almost certainly will with home video, but it's not quite out the woods yet.
regardless the sequel looks set to go ahead
GDT hinted that it may center around the funny proffesser newt guy as a villain as he has drifted with the kajee now.
"Hollywood" really will take anything nowadays, a sequel to a flop.
Presumably because there is an audience for a sequel and a lower budget will allow some kind of profit this time.
It's not really a flop. It's unsuccessful, because it's hasn't grossed it's marketing budget back, but it's hardly a career ending failure of epic proportions. Thomas Tull has that kind of money to waste...
Saw this last night. Liked the idea of monsters Vs robots, and the fight scenes were excellent.
However a lot of the storyline and dialogue was terrible. I can do 'suspend disbelief, comic book style action sci-fi' and I can do 'realistic save the world from the bad guys' but this seemed to be a mish-mash of both that didn't quite gel together really well.
Those scientists were bloody annoying as well. Cliche central.
Its annoying, because this film should/could have been so much better.
Saying that, its worth watching and I would give it 7/10.
Just rented this on my XBox - thought it was awesome! I had so so expectations because big gigantic monsters do not appeal to me - I hated Godzilla back in the day. Seems to have done well everywhere apart from in its home country which I find odd.
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No I don't think so and personally I don't think there should be one because it started and ended on good notes.
And to make a profit you need to make double the production budget and marketing budget. The production budget is known to be $190m, it made $407m. Warner Bros. got around $203.5m from the film. Subtract the $190m spent making it and you're left with $13.5m, there's no way spent that or less on marketing.
To put it simply $190m is far too expensive for an original property, especially one which is being marketed with the bad (but not quite so bad it's good) line "Today we cancelling the apocalypse",
Unless Warner Bros. only spent $13.5m on marketing it worldwide, it has not turned a profit yet. It almost certainly will with home video, but it's not quite out the woods yet.
regardless the sequel looks set to go ahead
GDT hinted that it may center around the funny proffesser newt guy as a villain as he has drifted with the kajee now.
Presumably because there is an audience for a sequel and a lower budget will allow some kind of profit this time.
It's not really a flop. It's unsuccessful, because it's hasn't grossed it's marketing budget back, but it's hardly a career ending failure of epic proportions. Thomas Tull has that kind of money to waste...
Arguably it has lost money, but not enough to be a flop...
However a lot of the storyline and dialogue was terrible. I can do 'suspend disbelief, comic book style action sci-fi' and I can do 'realistic save the world from the bad guys' but this seemed to be a mish-mash of both that didn't quite gel together really well.
Those scientists were bloody annoying as well. Cliche central.
Its annoying, because this film should/could have been so much better.
Saying that, its worth watching and I would give it 7/10.