Following the Uncharted movie's strong opening weekend, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman has said Uncharted is "a new hit movie franchise for the company."
As reported by Deadline, Rothman wrote these words in a companywide e-mail following Uncharted's $139 million global opening weekend box office performance. This was more than enough to cover the film's production budget, and it clearly has Sony thinking of a potential sequel, although nothing has yet been confirmed.
"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," Rothman wrote. "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."
This is undoubtedly a welcome outcome for the Uncharted movie, which itself went through a bit of development hell on its way to the finish line. Domestically, it was expected to do around $30 million, but it ended up bringing in $51 million.
While we won't spoil the details here, Uncharted's ending and post-credits scene definitely tease what some of the future adventures of Tom Holland's Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg's Sully could be, and Rothman's comments could indicate a sequel is all but confirmed.
In our Uncharted review, we said that it is "a safe but serviceable sampling of a new globe-spanning adventure. As a young Nathan Drake, Tom Holland is fun to watch and has good chemistry with Mark Wahlberg’s Victor Sullivan, even if their antagonists are pretty forgettable and the story never thinks outside the treasure chest box."
For more, check out which fight moves from the film were "stolen straight from the games" and what unexpected game Tom Holland used to unwind on set.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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As reported by Deadline, Rothman wrote these words in a companywide e-mail following Uncharted's $139 million global opening weekend box office performance. This was more than enough to cover the film's production budget, and it clearly has Sony thinking of a potential sequel, although nothing has yet been confirmed.
"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," Rothman wrote. "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."
This is undoubtedly a welcome outcome for the Uncharted movie, which itself went through a bit of development hell on its way to the finish line. Domestically, it was expected to do around $30 million, but it ended up bringing in $51 million.
While we won't spoil the details here, Uncharted's ending and post-credits scene definitely tease what some of the future adventures of Tom Holland's Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg's Sully could be, and Rothman's comments could indicate a sequel is all but confirmed.
In our Uncharted review, we said that it is "a safe but serviceable sampling of a new globe-spanning adventure. As a young Nathan Drake, Tom Holland is fun to watch and has good chemistry with Mark Wahlberg’s Victor Sullivan, even if their antagonists are pretty forgettable and the story never thinks outside the treasure chest box."
For more, check out which fight moves from the film were "stolen straight from the games" and what unexpected game Tom Holland used to unwind on set.
Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [email protected].
Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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