9/18/2023 0 Comments Anaconda 3 budget![]() Its $117 million ten-day cume is right between Hobbs & Shaw ($108 million from a $59 million debut) and Mission: Impossible Fallout ($124 million from a $62 million launch). There was such a long period without “big” R-rated action movies, give or take flash-in-the-pan flicks like American Sniper ($350 million in 2015), that a Bad Boys For Life that gets anywhere near the $173 million domestic cume of John Wick: Chapter 3 will be among the biggest such R-rated action movies in a generation. It’s also “different” in that the kind of R-rated, grounded, star-and-character-driven action movie that used to be par for the course is now enough of a rarity that Bad Boys for Life offers nostalgia for the pre- Transformers Michael Bay movie or the pre- Pirates of the Caribbean Jerry Bruckheimer action blockbuster. Bad Boys For Life is still a “big deal” in terms of conventional wisdom even 25 years later. Recent movies like Love, Simon, Black and Blue, Blockers and Hustlers are essentially what Hollywood probably would have given us in the early 2000’s had Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean not completely upended the status quo in terms of studio slates and theatrical offerings. The potential lessons learned from those films alongside the likes of Waiting to Exhale, The Birdcage and In and Out were washed away as Hollywood’s early-2000’s obsession with four-quadrant, global-friendly action fantasy blockbusters put the emphasis on white guys becoming the special. RELATED: ‘National Treasure 3’ Is Officially In Development.Sadly, the onscreen diversity of Anaconda, Rush Hour and, yes, Bad Boys, is as “aspirational” in 2020 as it was in the mid-1990’s. ![]() Our expectations are about as high as yours at this point. Anaconda (where an accident allows two giant species of crocodiles and anacondas to be regenerated and somehow sorority girls are involved) Anacondas: Trail of Blood (where they attempt to destroy the immortality flower before being threatened by a big ass snake).Anaconda 3: Offspring (where a team of mercenaries are forced to hunt down a lab-grown super snake).Anaconda: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (where they search for a flower that grants immortality?).Each one with more and more obscure names, less and less box office revenue (the last three were made for television), as well as bankrupting itself in terms of dignity. Since then, Anaconda has spawned an additional four films. Though keep in mind it was a very different time in the world. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and Owen Wilson, the horror film was quite the success. The original Anaconda was released in 1997, made with a US$45 million budget against a US$136.8 million global box office take. Sony Pictures has gone ahead and done what they do best, deciding in their infinite wisdom to give the world something absolutely no one asked for: a reboot of Anaconda.Ĭurrently being penned by Evan Daugherty – the literary talent behind such memorable cinematic works as Snowhite and the Hunstman, Divergent, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hunstman: Winter’s War, and Tomb Raider – you can imagine the calibre of scripting we’re about to be served. ![]()
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