What this means, to the extent that it's not just mere trivia, is two-fold.
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Moreover, by default, it has given Butler himself the first live-action chart-topping opening weekend since 300 12 years ago.Įven counting pre-stardom fare like Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, The Phantom of the Opera and Timeline, it's still only his second chart-topper outside of the first and third How to Train Your Dragon movies.
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And, like the John Wick series (whose first film opened against Ouija and whose sequel opened against The LEGO Batman Movie and Fifty Shades Darker), it has scored its first chart-topping victory as a result of being the big movie of the weekend for once. The submarine thriller Hunter Killer flopped late last year.Īngel Has Fallen, which cost just $40 million (the first two Mike Banning flicks cost $70 million and $60 million), has opened with $21 million. It eventually earned $80 million worldwide, and a sequel is currently in the works. STX Entertainment's Den of Thieves, a "rip-off, don't remake" riff on Michael Mann's Heat, opened with $15.2 million, third behind 12 Strong ($15.5 million) and the $19.5 million-grossing fifth weekend of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. The "your weather is trying to murder you" disaster flick earned $221 million worldwide, but only $33 million of that came from North America on a $120 million budget. London Has Fallen opened with $21.635 million, second to the $75 million launch of Walt Disney's Zootopia, while Warner Bros.' Geostorm opened in second place ($13.7 million) behind the $22 million debut of Boo 2: A Madea Halloween. It opened with $14 million for second place behind Deadpool's third ($31 million) weekend. The film earned $150 million worldwide, but it cost $140 million to produce. He returned to live-action three years later with Alex Proyas' controversial (it was a movie set in ancient Egypt that starred mostly white people) but delightfully insane action fantasy Gods of Egypt. Since then, Butler has made almost exclusively action movies. Love it or hate it, Olympus Has Fallen was a breath of fresh air in a PG-13 world, and it opened with $30 million (behind the $44 million debut of The Croods) toward a $98 million domestic cume and $162 million worldwide sum.
The unabashedly jingoistic actioner was more-or-less the first "big budget" R-rated action movie in a generation, coming after a decade where Hollywood had stuffed everything into the PG-13 box at the expense of "just for kids" movies and "just for adults" flicks.
While White House Down was a $150 million ode to Die Hard, the $70 million (and far more violent) Olympus Has Fallen had the crude carnage and stretch-the-bucks production values of a straight-to-VHS Die Hard knockoff.
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