Prey new predator8/31/2023 Prey gets to be a big fish in an important pond. It earned lousy reviews and $51 million domestic/$160 million worldwide, a record global haul for a Predator movie but nowhere near enough on an $88 million budget. The Predator was centered not on Olivia Munn or Sterling K. It also missed part of Predators’ appeal, namely in giving us unconventional action heroes in Adrian Brody and Alice Braga. The Predator saw Fox trying to turn the IP into an MCU-ish fantasy series. Predator 2 earned $55 million worldwide in 1990 on a $35 million budget, while Predators earned $52 million domestic but $127 million worldwide on a $40 million budget in 2010. Unfortunately, like Terminator, Total Recall and Conan the Barbarian, Hollywood mistook audiences showing up to an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle for inherent interest in a monetizable IP. Its $59 million domestic gross remains tops for any solo Predator movie. Predator earned $98 million worldwide in 1987 on a $15 million budget. The previous films were, at best, modest hits in times far more forgiving to the theatrical ecosystem. Nonetheless, the opening weekend would have been rooted in ‘Do you want to see another Predator movie?’ sans additional elements or marquee characters. Young Naru is a dynamic action figure arguably on par with the title monster in terms of onscreen entertainment value. Whatever milestones Prey represents, its commercial value was entirely in terms of audiences wanting to see a relatively unknown actress fight a Predator in 1719 America. Predator has never been a blockbuster franchise. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Speaking of which.Ĭarl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of "Predator". Representational improvements aside, nobody wanted to see another Terminator movie. That is why going the Force Awakens route (young, diverse newbies alongside franchise vets as elder mentors) didn’t work for Terminator: Dark Fate. If the Internet represented the real world, Birds of Prey would have cleared $1 billion instead of Joker. And Predator isn’t that kind of franchise.Īs a longtime box office pundit, I’ve been banging my head on the desk about this since nobody showed up to Drew Barrymore’s terrific Whip It in the fall of 2009. We tend only to show up when representational milestones occur in franchise films (Marvel movies, Star Wars sequels, Fast and Furious films, etc.) we already wanted to see. Diversity is a ‘yes, and’ variable, but (like solid box office in China) it can’t turn a flop into a hit. The representative milestones were an added value element for an already appealing old-school, big-budget Hollywood romantic comedy package. That’s not to say that, for example, Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians succeeded *despite* diversity.
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