I haven’t seen any in the shops I’ve been in, so no need to be so patronising.
Jumper cost $85 million, only made $80 million here, and an additional $142 million overseas. So it made back it’s money, but wasn’t a huge success, not terribly surprising it didn’t get a sequel. It’s too bad, it seems like it could have been interesting, although I thought the premise was somewhat wasted in the first movie.
That’s over 150% profit. How on Earth is that not a huge success?
Not Earth… Hollywood.
He pretty much nailed many of his scenes in the prequels. For instance when he hears about the pregancy. His interactions with Palpatine. The final fight. When he is conflicted about going after the Jedi strike team.
Hell even the whole whiny bit was pretty much what he was asked to play.
And I don’t think he’ll ever recover, overgrown fan boys hate him too much.
I dunno; what’s the closest thing to it? The first PERCY JACKSON movie cost $95 million, only made $88 million here and an additional $137 million overseas – and it got the green light for a sequel, because why wouldn’t it?
The first HELLBOY movie likewise fell seven million short of breaking even here, and did even worse overseas – and it got a sequel too.
Even MASK OF ZORRO didn’t break even here, but via the overseas take hit the 2.6x mark like JUMPER did. But Banderas got asked back, and Christensen didn’t.
SHANGHAI NOON begat SHANGHAI KNIGHTS; dunno how; THE TRANSPORTER begat THE TRANSPORTER 2; I can’t readily explain that either; RIDDICK, which almost hit 2.6x, was the sequel to CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, which did $57 million here and $58 million overseas on a $105 million budget, and so makes little sense – unless you figure it got a pass because PITCH BLACK turned $23 million into $53 million.
Except $23=>$53 ain’t even JUMPER-esque. (But it’s better than PACIFIC RIM, which last I heard may well get a sequel despite flopping here; what’s up with that?)
Jumper was a success, but not a huge success. When the start of a franchise is a huge success, you expect it to definitely have a sequel unless something weird happens. But when something is a more modest success, it could have a sequel or not, depending on some factors.
Percy Jackson was described as a “modest success” from what I can find in news articles, a bit surprising that it had a sequel, but it did have better reviews that Jumper. Maybe the books sold better and were more well known than Jumper too, that could make a difference in how confident studios are in trying for a new franchise.
I’m not quite sure how Hellboy got a sequel. The first one didn’t do very well, but between the first and second, both Pan’s Labyrinth and Batman Begins came out and were big successes. So with Pan’s Labyrinth coming out, that probably made del Toro a more in demand director who could have a little more sway in what films he could make, and make him more attractive to studios. And with Batman Begins being so successful, a lot of studios started working more on finding their own comic book movies to be big successes.
The Shanghai movies I’m not sure, other than Jackie Chan was such a big star in China. It’s possible those did a lot better on video and TV and that made it worthwhile. TV and video sales aren’t shown in overall grosses, but they can make a difference in sequels being made. Or at least that used to be the case, before people stopped watching as many movies on TV and DVD and started watching a lot more streaming.
The third Riddick movie had a much scaled back budget, and it looks like the series had very successful video games, which might have prompted more interest in another movie. And the third movie was after Diesel had started doing Fast and Furious movies again, and the 4th and 5th ones of those were big very successful.
I didn’t mean to completely hijack this thread, we can move it to another thread if anyone wants to talk about sequels that should have been made or ones that it doesn’t make sense that they were made.
In the interests of doing my part to likewise un-hijack the thread, Box Office Mojo now has the one-point-five-billion-and-change gross of FORCE AWAKENS as just having passed THE AVENGERS worldwide – having looooong since shot past it domestically.
Whatever they paid anybody in this movie Disney’s getting their money’s worth.
Agreed. He wasn’t the problem with the prequels, it was the writing. And the hairstylist.
That’s hardly enough to earn a decent profit. A lot of film budgets do not include advertising or distribution costs. I would think Jumper did make money with DVD and TV rights, etc., but it was a lot thinner a profit than they would prefer.