Pacific Rim: Uprising | March 23, 2018 | Steven S. DeKnight (Starz' Spartacus, Marvel's Daredevil) directing | John Boyega. Scott Eastwood joins as co-lead | Tag All Spoilers!

[John Marston]

Why would it particularly do well in China?

It did very well there. Over 100m. Everywhere else it did mediocre business

[SpiderByte]

Apparently we're also getting an Animated Series:

Edited June 27, 2014 by SpiderByte

[tong kosong]

Yes !!! I'm so happy. The release date is good.

[tong kosong]

Would they need to change the lead actor? I totally forgot if Charlie Hunnam died in the end

 

I sure hope they do.

 

Charlie Hunnam survives, but I hope he will not be the lead actor in PR2

[SpiderByte]

I'm more interested in the animated series, TBH. That sounds like it could be incredibly badass, especially if it's heavily anime stylized.

[zackzack]

first film was pretty awful, domestic will decrease

 

The fight scenes & special fx are awesome, the acting, the story - all suck.

No offense to the sweet-looking Japanese actress but she is rather stiff. 

[AJG]

This seems like one of those movies that just seems to have a small yet loud group of fans online... I have no idea why they would choose to make a sequel 4 years after the "meh" first one. Hell, I doubt China will even care by then.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Bring in Mark Whalberg.

[grim22]

The only thing I want to see in the sequel - Daylight fight scenes with no rain anywhere. As good as that HK fight scene was, the night-time rain soaked filming made the Kaiju indistinguishable from one another. I only realized that the Kaiju designs were so well thought out months later when design art was leaked online.

[Dementeleus]

The only thing I want to see in the sequel - Daylight fight scenes with no rain anywhere. As good as that HK fight scene was, the night-time rain soaked filming made the Kaiju indistinguishable from one another. I only realized that the Kaiju designs were so well thought out months later when design art was leaked online.

 

grim, your eyes must be really bad.

[Fancyarcher]

The fight scenes & special fx are awesome, the acting, the story - all suck.

No offense to the sweet-looking Japanese actress but she is rather stiff. 

 

Gotta disagree with you there. Iris Elba was great and I loved Ron Perlman despite his short screentime.

 

Also I liked the story, thought it was really interesting. Definitely think there's more to explore with a sequel.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Fancyarcher

[Dementeleus]

No offense to the sweet-looking Japanese actress but she is rather stiff. 

 

That would be Oscar-nominated Rinko Kikuchi.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

First predict:130 / 450 / 580 mil

[Corpse]

Certainly a surprise sequel announcement.  Maybe it was really successful on home video?

[Mango]

Certainly a surprise sequel announcement.  Maybe it was really successful on home video?

 

I don't think anything is successful on home video anymore. Maybe it got some great Redbox profits or something.

[Empire]

Certainly a surprise sequel announcement.  Maybe it was really successful on home video?

It wasn't which makes it more of a surprise. 

[grim22]

Certainly a surprise sequel announcement.  Maybe it was really successful on home video?

 

Not exactly.It sold a combined 2.5M copies Blu Ray and DVD. This does not include WalMart or Target special editions etc. so unless it really outsold everything else by a large margin it wasn't a big HV monster.  http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Pacific-Rim#tab=video-sales

 

I think this is more of Universal wanting franchises to leverage not just in movies, but in their theme parks etc.

Edited June 27, 2014 by grim22

[rukaio101]

 

I mean, yeah, I thought it was pretty likely after comments made in interviews with Legendary's higher-ups and kinda inevitable after Godzilla's success, but it's still good to get the confirmation.

 

Also, animated series!!! I actually mentioned earlier how much I would love a Pacific Rim animated series. I am very glee filled at the moment

[PDC1987]

I think PR was massive on OnDemand. It was literally listed under "New" on the main menu of Time Warner Cable's OnDemand channel for *months.*

[rukaio101]

You guys also have to take into account Merchandising which Pacific Rim lends itself to very very well (and I suspect is the main reason for the animated show).

 

It's the same reason Cars keeps getting sequels despite not being Pixar's most successful property box-office wise (or critically). It makes a ridiculous amount of money from all the toys and crap sold.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Rukaio Alter