Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars.
The Big Picture Thanks to an excellent opening weekend haul posted by Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Warner Bros., and Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise has passed a monumental milestone at the global box office. Five movies down, the shared universe on Sunday crossed the $2 billion mark globally. This comes mere days after fellow W.B. and Legendary movies Dune and Dune: Part Twopassed a combined global box office total of $1 billion.
Including Godzilla x Kong’s $194 million haul, the MonsterVerse franchise’s global box office total now stands at $2.135 billion, making it one of the rare shared universes that have succeeded outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After the MCU gained traction around a decade and change ago, rival studios put into motion varied attempts to replicate its success. While most of them disintegrated — the DC Extended Universe and the Dark Universe spring to mind — a couple of others survived.
W.B. and Legendary kept the budget for the film in check; the movie cost a reported $135 million to produce, as compared to the $155 million to $185 million budget range that the franchise’s previous entries occupied. Incidentally, two other franchises also crossed box office milestones in the last week or so — the Ghostbusters series hit the $1 billion mark worldwide, while the Kung Fu Panda series hit the $2 billion mark.
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