Sci-Fi Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

[blueharvest]

 

[Filmfreak]

It's not that bad. With 390 million it barely broke even/had slight profit/lost a bit of money, which is way better than many high profile films this last year. It seems like it had a good run in North America, but not so much in the rest of the world. Still it poses a question of how successful its sequels might or might not be.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, it did better than War for the Planet of the Apes in NA. Not bad since it was technically a reboot sequel with all new characters.

I’m sure they’re hoping the next one increases like how much Dawn increased over Rise.

Crazy to think that the 2001 Tim Burton Apes is still the biggest domestically when adjusted for inflation.

 

[Filmfreak]

Yeah, it did better than War for the Planet of the Apes in NA. Not bad since it was technically a reboot sequel with all new characters.

I’m sure they’re hoping the next one increases like how much Dawn increased over Rise.

Crazy to think that the 2001 Tim Burton Apes is still the biggest domestically when adjusted for inflation.

Yeah but Rise was an actual reboot, not a technical one. Back then they had to introduce the world from the start and win back audiences after Tim Burton's film. This may have taken seven years to get made but the audience already existed, the series was already loved and the world was already there, despite taking place a few centuries after the last one. What I mean is if they are indeed waiting for a similar box office increase, with those factors in place, and with the state cinema is today, they're likely in for a disappointment.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I think with the way the BO has been this year KOTPOTA has comparatively done really well. The Fall Guy and Furiosa as the other major May releases didn't even make half of that. And had comparable budgets.

 

[psylockolussus]

I think the box office performance could have been worse given the current state of the box office globally. It held pretty well in North America. But for the sequel/s, they need to come up with a story that would really attract more people, especially if they want to be hitting movie #6 to #9. The other movies that came out in May aren't really that appealing to the masses, so it helped Apes. But it won't be like that for the next Apes movie and there could an actual competition at the box office.

 

[Sawyer]

I’d still like to know why tf I thought Owen Teague was Australian.

 

[Kane52630]

streaming next week

 

[BobJM]

Can’t wait to watch this again; it was such a pleasant surprise.

 

[Dave McFly]

oh so watching this did not get the chance to see it in the theater the only one of the 'new films' I saw was Rise

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Gonna wait for the 4k disc version before I watch this again. Really good movie though.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[samsnee]

It’s out on Hulu. I enjoyed it for the most part. The acting was good and the FX were mostly top tier.

But man they need to try to keep these movies under 2 hours at most. Each sequel has gotten longer and longer and you can feel it. After the village attack, it dragged for a good chunk.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Looking forward to seeing where they take these characters. Kingdom seemed like a good start to a new storyline.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Just watched this on Hulu and I absolutely loved it. While the previous series expertly moved from a pandemic thriller to a war series, this one felt like a truly epic adventure. I’m glad that it did reasonably well at the box office (especially considering how poorly many other blockbuster-type films have done this year) and we will hopefully get sequels. I would gladly follow these apes and this human on more adventures. Owen Teague and Freya Allan were great leads and I stand by my earlier statement that they would make an excellent Link and Zelda if Wes Ball decides to call them up for that movie. Speaking of which, this proved to me that Ball could knock Zelda out of the park if Tom Rothman and Avi Arad don’t step in and **** everything up (tall order, I know). Ball and his effects team did such a great job with the motion capture on this one; the emotions of the apes are so well conveyed. Easily one of my favorite movies of the year.

I’m also holding out hope that

Spoiler

my guy Raka is still alive! I loved his character.

 

[psylockolussus]

Spoiler

Raka was my favorite too. He was very kind.

 

[Kane52630]

This would have been a fire PS2 game.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Box Office: Revenge of the Franchises

With domestic box office at $5.4 billion so far, 2024 hasn’t been too shabby (even cineastes are thrilled!) as the big IP swings are mostly working.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

The reversal in fortune began after a rough May that saw The Fall Guy, a potential franchise newbie, spin out at the box office, followed by the blowout of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ($172  million globally), which had followed the triumphant relaunch of the series with Mad Max: Fury Road ($380 million) in 2015. The one bright spot of May was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, one of the numerous film properties Disney’s film empire inherited after the larger acquisition of Fox assets in 2019.

Apes was a crucial test in the post-Disney merger, and it passed; the movie grossed nearly $400 million globally, enough to fulfill filmmaker Wes Ball’s dream of a new trilogy. Alien: Romulus, released in August, was another successful test of the 20th Century-Disney marriage (the pic has grossed north of $300 million globally, the second-best showing of the franchise behind 2012’s Prometheus, not adjusted for inflation).

Speaking of Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, it’s a balm for Kevin Feige’s superhero studio. The film is the second-biggest title of the year with more than $1.287 billion in ticket sales and a franchise best no matter how you slice and dice it. In the span of a few short months, Disney — the Hollywood studio designed more than any other to subsist on franchises — once again is dominating its rivals after losing its No. 1 standing to Universal last year in a stunning fall from grace. Its movies accounted for $1.5 billion in summer domestic box office ticket sales, or a 42 percent share. Disney insiders are especially pleased about such titles as Apes and Aliens because those were properties that came from 20th Century Fox and were more difficult to pull off in terms of reviving older brands with less of a built-in crowd than, say, Deadpool.