Deadline: Pacific Rim sequel likely

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XiaNaphryz said:
Crimson Typhoon after seeing the opening numbers:

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This is beautiful.
 
harSon said:
Yeah, right alongside his other projects At the Mountains of Madness, Frankenstein, Slaughterhouse Five and Drood. Or his Haunted Mansion project. Probably somewhere in between Beauty and the Beast and Dark Universe as well. But not before his TV Shows The Strain and adaptation of Monster.
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Plus his Hulk series, haha.
 
I did my part, too many times, I took my friends , family, even my ex's.

So going by the numbers, in PR2 no more american Jaegers, they don't care about it anyway(sorry to the ones that watched it), Gipsy Danger 2.0 is created by another country.

inky said:
Mexico WB 7/12/13 $5,497,542 39.3% $14,005,588 7/28/13
South Korea Warner Bros. 7/11/13 $8,349,956 47.4% $17,623,549 7/28/13
Russia - CIS Karo 7/11/13 $8,925,667 53.3% $16,738,779 7/21/13
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So this means Mexico, South Korea and Russia get Jaegers? PLEASE!!!
 
The article is about how Pacific Rim is a success in China, right? Then Deadline linked it to "sequel likely" somehow based on that. Not too sure about that.
 
harSon said:
Yeah, right alongside his other projects At the Mountains of Madness, Frankenstein, Slaughterhouse Five and Drood. Or his Haunted Mansion project. Probably somewhere in between Beauty and the Beast and Dark Universe as well. But not before his TV Shows The Strain and adaptation of Monster.
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He is going to shoot The Strain pilot later this year, that's his next project.
 
I feel bad that I only just saw this today (America), especially since I've been so excited about it since the first teaser, but I did finally make it out!

Loved loved it, and I'm very happy to come home and see this story. I'd like to see it one more time before it leaves the theater.
 
Hopefully the next movie isn't all about the American Jaeger considering foreign audiences are the ones carrying this film.

3N16MA said:
It's not doing great numbers in many parts of Europe. It's also doing pretty bad in Australia despite an Australian Jaeger.
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An Australian Jaegar which does absolutely fuck all in the movie. Not to mention the fake Australian actors with embarrassing accents. Australian fans should be lining up to see this movie!
 
One thing that is very interesting about the prospects of a sequel is that Deadline makes it sound like WB is taking the full international cut (despite only financing 25% of the movie's production); in a post-Legendary/WB split, it'll be interesting to see if that influences either party's willingness to roll the dice on a sequel. Sounds like WB might have emerged from this particular venture better off than Legendary, not that it seems like it'll matter much for Legendary (?), given their future deal with Universal.
 
I'm cautiously optimistic, but the IP has some things going for it and it's doing much better overseas than domestically. As far as merchandise, if they sold figures in the poses which were shown in the end credits, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. Those things looked awesome.
 
vareon said:
The article is about how Pacific Rim is a success in China, right? Then Deadline linked it to "sequel likely" somehow based on that. Not too sure about that.
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China was one of its key regions, USA/China/Japan/Brazil were the 4 major markets this movie was aimed at. It was #1 in Korea, Russia and Mexico

People need to stop downplaying it, China was always Plan B when the US failed. Its opening signals that things in that region went as hoped.

Fucking GAF and its negative nancies and cynical asses
 
At the very least, they should do a short film collection a la The Animatrix. Though seeing as how WB hasn't organized one since Batman: Gotham Knight, maybe the conditions have not been favorable.

Edit: Didn't know they were involved in the production of Halo Legends.
 
markatisu said:
China was one of its key regions, USA/China/Japan/Brazil were the 4 major markets this movie was aimed at. It was #1 in Korea, Russia and Mexico

People need to stop downplaying it, China was always Plan B when the US failed. Its opening signals that things in that region went as hoped.

Fucking GAF and its negative nancies and cynical asses
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There's nothing to downplay. you don't make a 200m blockbuster and only target 4 markets, you target every market—and right now, the overseas total is middling at best, and the domestic total is underwhelming. There's cynicism and then there's reality.
 
jtb said:
There's nothing to downplay. you don't make a 200m blockbuster and only target 4 markets, you target every market—and right now, the overseas total is middling at best, and the domestic total is underwhelming. There's cynicism and then there's reality.
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and then there's people with "no interest" in something and yet they seem to be more obsessed with it bombing than people are with it suceeding.
 
markatisu said:
China was one of its key regions, USA/China/Japan/Brazil were the 4 major markets this movie was aimed at. It was #1 in Korea, Russia and Mexico

People need to stop downplaying it, China was always Plan B when the US failed. Its opening signals that things in that region went as hoped.

Fucking GAF and its negative nancies and cynical asses
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No, I was questioning "The movie was a success worldwide, therefore sequel" logic. I know Del Toro has been stating his ideas if there is a next movie, but I haven't seen any sort of official"if this is a success, then we'll make it a series" statement. Which is why I was questioning it, since the movie was already perfect as a stand alone movie to begin with.
 
It would be best if it could still hit at least 400-500 million. Otherwise it might end up being a cheaper-looking sequel, if it ever gets produced at all.
 
jtb said:
There's nothing to downplay. you don't make a 200m blockbuster and only target 4 markets, you target every market—and right now, the overseas total is middling at best, and the domestic total is underwhelming. There's cynicism and then there's reality.
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I don't know why you would consider it middling when it is doing very well in the world's #2 market after 1 day. The China opening beat the China openings for Man of Steel and Fast and Furious 6.
 
numble said:
I don't know why you would consider it middling when it is doing very well in the world's #2 market after 1 day. The China opening beat the China openings for Man of Steel and Fast and Furious 6.
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Aren't some predicting that China may become the #1 movie market as soon as next year?
 
AdventureRacing said:
An Australian Jaegar which does absolutely fuck all in the movie. Not to mention the fake Australian actors with embarrassing accents. Australian fans should be lining up to see this movie!
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What? Striker Eureka was the second most prominent Jaeger in the entire film by a large margin. We saw it in three separate fight scenes. The Chinese showed up and their Jaeger gets worfed in about five seconds!
 
Pacific Rim was cool and all, but I'd really rather see GDT hit up Mountains of Madness with his clout rather than do a sequel. And really, it was only hist direction that made PR so good in the first place.
 
megamerican said:
Pacific Rim was cool and all, but I'd really rather see GDT hit up Mountains of Madness with his clout rather than do a sequel. And really, it was only hist direction that made PR so good in the first place.
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He had Cameron on board. Hard to get more clout than that.
 
Yes, yes, thank you world.

Bring on the sequel and then have it tie into the new Godzilla movie-verse and it will be the greatest thing witnessed onscreen in the history of mankind.
 
numble said:
I don't know why you would consider it middling when it is doing very well in the world's #2 market after 1 day. The China opening beat the China openings for Man of Steel and Fast and Furious 6.
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because it is? like I said, it's doing great in one market—and as a fan of pacific rim, that's fantastic! but that's just one market—the overall picture still looks like it'll top out at 400m WW. that's middling for a 200m blockbuster (and that's being generous), and not exactly sequel material. it's certainly possible that China's box office growth might help convince executives that a sequel is a good idea, but it doesn't change the fact that Pacific Rim isn't doing particularly well at the box office in the present. Not a catastrophic failure like RIPD, but it's still pretty questionable whether it'll even break even.
 
I was pretty disillusioned by all the crappy summer movies this year, but Pacific Rim was freaking amazing. It's probably my favourite movie of the year. I'm all for a sequel.
 
I'm not a WB or Legendary shareholder. If PRs international box office is good enough to warrant a sequel and I get to see another kickass, high budget Kaiju movie, why the fuck should I care how profitable it was? why should anyone on GAF care beyond meaningless pissing contests and bitter fanboy tears?
 
XiaNaphryz said:
Aren't some predicting that China may become the #1 movie market as soon as next year?
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Including the US? No. The Chinese movie industry made $2.7B last year after a 30% growth over 2011. Even if it continues to grow 30% a year, it will take another 6 years to surpass the US market, and even then, domestic Chinese films are earning a lot of that cash.

EDIT: The domestic box office totaled almost $11B last year.
 
If a sequel gets made, I hope we can see a rebuild Cherno with a comeback of the 2 russian dudes using eyepatches, like Asuka!
 
It also has yet to open in all the Scandinavian markets, why is nobody talking about that? ;)

Japan could be big. Some analysts predict it can do 70 million there alone.

If we all buy the blu-Ray as well, we might get our sequel. I'll do my part at least.
 
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