Tom Holland's Uncharted Called Sony's New Movie Franchise By Tom Rothman
Sony's Uncharted was released this past Friday and ended its holiday weekend opening with a $51 million domestic box office total. The project's success has many beneath the Sony Pictures umbrella elated, which CEO and Chairman Tom Rothman highlights in a companywide email sent out Monday, after the film's incredible box office weekend.
Sony projected that Uncharted would end the four-day holiday weekend with an optimistic $30 million total, generating $27 million throughout the weekend's first three days. Video game adaptations can be a rough avenue to maneuver through for most studios, but centering the franchise around Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland gave the film a head start compared to most adaptations that came before it.
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Uncharted took two years to fully come together due to production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. However, despite the financial toll, Sony continued to move forward with the film, believing in the project's ability to attract audiences to theaters to witness the experience, which seems to have paid off. «It is Presidents' Day in America, but we are open in most places around the world today, and we have another global triumph to celebrate,» expressed Sony's Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman. «With over $100M in box office worldwide in just one weekend, and a 90% positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, Uncharted is a new hit movie franchise for the company.»
«This marks a great victory for every single division of the company, as the film was our first major production entirely shut down by the advent of Covid, yet we persevered to complete a picture the audience loves and marketed and distributed it with strategic
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