No.

The more important question is if Japan can save Spurge from double posting threads again.

The answer is also no.

Waaaait a minute. They let The Mummy release in China? They must have pulled some strings because I thought there was a ban on supernatural movies that involved the dead. Palms must have been greased.

Anyway. I'm not surprised these flicks tanked. Universal trying to jump start a shared universe using this awful movie blew up in their face. Which, technically, Dracula Untold was supposed to kick it off, but that movie was a dud too so they swept it under the rug. Stick to franchises. The shared universe thing seems to work best for comic movies since that's their storytelling nature. Hell, what kind of shared universe was it going to be anyway since the next Universal monster flick wasn't going to follow up until 2019. They didn't seem very dedicated to it.

And honestly? Power Rangers was just not feature film material. This is the second time they had to be taught that. Some properties are just too goofy to adapt. After a lifetime of it being the cheesiest show on TV, nobody was going to buy into a more serious entry on the big screen. Not one that played out more like a young adult novel anyway. Plus, for a PW movie, it sure lacked a good amount of screentime toward its namesake.

The Mummy could break even for Universal after the international run is over. That doesn't mean they should consider following up on it. Take that money and run. Breaking even is a terrible position to jump start a franchise.

A note on the 50% return estimate that people come up with when assuming how much a movie nets, that's not set in stone. The big movie studios are controlling their own worldwide distribution more and more these days as to avoid losing money to third party distributors.

There's still print and marketing to tend to, and dealing with theaters as to how much of a cut they receive, but the returns are heavily in favor of the studios. Believe me. It's how studios can coast on years worth of underperformers and still keep the doors open. That and ridiculous tax breaks.

Havnt seen any of them, and dont plan on either.

You know what Im planning on seeing soon?
Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.

The comic book sci-fy, that sparked off stuff like Startrek, Starwars ect.
Directed by Luc Besson (5th element, Lucy,Taxi, Leon - the proffesional, Le femme nikta ect)

(my father loves the comic's, and has been reading them for 20years? or something like that.. so it ll be fun to go watch it with him)

The mummy & Power Ranger's... meh.

Ive become too picky.... so much crap out there, I rather just go once in a while when something great looking comes along.

I've never seen a single country be called out on to save a movie.

The Mummy is at $390M. I think it will be fine. Power Rangers, not so much.

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