In part that was because it offered the kind of spectacle and in-camera effects that you couldn't see anywhere else.īut the kind of modern-day disaster-film blockbuster that Roland Emmerich pioneered with the first "Independence Day" became commonplace by the time he made the second one. It's not insurmountable the " Mad Max" franchise waited 30 years, but " Mad Max: Fury Road" was still a hit last year. Two decades is an awfully long time to wait between installments. What went wrong? Here are a few of "Resurgence's" missteps. That's going to be nearly impossible given the movie's slow domestic start. (Some sources say as much as $200 million compare that to $75 million to make "ID4" two decades ago.) Given its likely promotional costs and the splitting of revenue with theater owners, "Resurgence" will have to gross about $660 million worldwide for Fox just to break even. Plus, the movie cost at least $165 million to make. Predictions by outside analysts ran from $40 to $55 million that the movie opened on the low end of those expectations, and well below Fox's own modest prediction, is not good news. The sequel's distributor, Fox, had expected the new film to open around $50 million as well, but adjusting for inflation, that means the new film did only about half as well as the 20-year-old original. Today, that would be the equivalent of a $97.5 million debut. Those are the kind of numbers most movies would kill for.īut remember, the first " Independence Day," a movie not based on a previously-existing property, and with no big stars, debuted with $50.3 million, and that was in 1996 dollars. The alien-invasion sequel premiered with an estimated $41.6 million opening wide on 4,068 screens, that's an average of $10,226 per screen. We're in a weird place where a summer blockbuster can open with the huge numbers that " Independence Day: Resurgence" did and still be considered a box office flop.
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