Uncharted Movie Passes $100 Million As Sony Calls It A "Franchise"
Sony's Uncharted movie opened in the US on February 18 following its release in the UK and other parts of the world earlier in the month, and the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg action movie has now made more than $139 million worldwide. After outperforming expectations this past weekend, the movie has now made $51 million in the US and $88 million internationally for a global total of $139 million.
Success at that level was enough to give Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman the confidence to say Uncharted is now a «franchise» for the film company going forward. As such, viewers should probably expect a sequel, though the company has yet to flat-out confirm this.
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Uncharted cost $120 million to produce, and that doesn't count marketing expenses, but Rothman said in an email to staff obtained by Deadline that Uncharted «is a new hit movie franchise for the company.» The executive also mentioned how Uncharted has a very, very positive 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (although the aggregate review score from critics was much lower by some measures).
«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 verve worldwide, despite the pandemic,» Rothman said of Uncharted.
Rothman also said the success of Uncharted speaks to the «unmatched cultural power of
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