7/15/2023 0 Comments A quiet place 2 castWe’ve gone from original nostalgia-targeted 1980’s throwbacks that merely remind you of 80’s-era IP to Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which is playing the same game with explicitly 80’s-era franchise exploitation. Ten years later, we’ve gone from “Hey, neat, X-Men: First Class kinda works as a 1960’s spy movie” to “This 1960’s spy movie won’t sell without a comic book character.” Franchise films have gone from appropriating genre to supplanting it. Once the bottom fell out on that, thanks to streaming and changing moviegoing tastes, the studios without the A+ IP were left to tread water. Paramount and Sony thrived during a time when “a Julia Roberts rom-com,” “an Adam Sandler comedy” or “a Will Smith action fantasy” was a franchise unto itself. Last year was supposed to be Paramount’s comeback year, with Sonic, A Quiet Place 2, Coming 2 America, Top Gun: Maverick and Sponge On The Run putting them back on the proverbial map after years struggling with the collapse of the star-driven studio programmer. Conversely, their rivals had maybe one or two comparative mega-movies, think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($1.34 billion for Warner Bros.), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1 billion for Disney), Fast Five ($620 million for Universal), The Smurfs ($564 million for Sony) and Rio ($500 million for Fox). ![]() Paramount topped in global market share in 2011 thanks to the likes of Kung Fu Panda 2 ($665 million), Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($1.2 billion), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ($695 million), Thor ($449 million) and yes, Super 8 ($262 million on a $50 million budget). Paramount was so dominant that Super 8 was sold as a “just a movie” anti-blockbuster summer counterprogramming to Paramount’s own franchise summer biggies. This was the before-time, back when Paramount could also still get big hits out of Paranormal Activity and Shutter Island, as well as star-driven comedies like Daddy’s Home in late 2015. So, yeah, before Disney bought Marvel and Fox (and then Comcast) took DreamWorks, the Viacom-owned studio was making a go of it. By the time it left theaters, A Quiet Place had pocketed $188 million domestically and more than $340 million worldwide.That’s not even including the various DreamWorks sequels, Transformers follow-ups and reenergized (starting in 2011) Mission: Impossible sequels. A Quiet Place made a big noise at the box office with its contained yet completely terrifying premise. The family's world is turned upside down when a chain of noisy events alerts the aliens to their home and they must try to survive as best they can. The Abbotts live on a farm where silence is observed at all times to avoid aliens finding and killing them. ![]() A Quiet Place Part II is the sequel to A Quiet Place, starring John Krasinski (who also wrote and directed), Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe.Ī Quiet Place followed the Abbott family - Lee (Krasinski), Evelyn (Blunt), Regan (Simmonds), and Marcus (Jupe) - as they navigated a world where aliens with extremely acute hearing abilities have wiped out a large portion of the population. ![]() ![]() A Quiet Place 2will finally be released in theaters in 2021, continuing the story of sound-sensitive monsters that began in 2018's surprise box office smash.
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