What Did You Think of ‘WORLD WAR Z’?

World War Z  made some big buckaroos over the weekend and, according to my Facebook feed, many of my friends saw it and many even enjoyed it. While I was lukewarm about it in my review, I knew that it has the architecture of a above average summer blockbuster and would do well.

From the Press Release

Brad Pitt’s “WORLD WAR Z” surpassed the star’s “MR. & MRS. SMITH” (which opened at $50.3 million) to deliver the biggest opening of his career earning $66 million at the domestic box office.

“WORLD WAR Z’s” stellar debut at approximately 3607 locations, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions, in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films, also earned $45.8 million at the international box office, bringing the film’s world wide cume to $112 million.

The film earned a terrific B+ Cinema Score from moviegoers, indicated strong word of the mouth for the movie as it plays across the country this weekend and throughout the summer.

“WORLD WAR Z” is directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof, and a screen story by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski. Based on the novel by Max Brooks. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Ian Bryce.

With the film doing so well, Paramount is already talking about a sequel. However, one begs to question, why are we talking about a sequel when it has only made 1/3 of its money back in one weekend. Sure, the film looks to make the total budget of $190 million back but it seems like the sequel talk might be a bit premature. Collectively with the $66 million it made domestically, it made $45 million in foreign dollars which brings it to a total of $112 million. It still has to make $78 million back and I personally think it might have a problem doing that.

I personally don’t see World War Z having a lot of replay value and while there will be people that still need to see the film, I think the majority of people who wanted to see it, have seen it. We will see how it plays out in the weeks to come plus there are the DVD & Blu-Ray sales. However, keep in mind that Paramount also introduced the Mega Ticket for $50 and who knows how many ticket sales they did for that and how much of those sales contributed to the $66 or $112 million total. They also took a risk in saying anyone who bought that Mega Ticket is getting the Digital Copy as well. If you have rabid fans of the film who paid that amount of money for the Mega Ticket they will more than likely not be buying the home video release unless they want physical product or the 3D element (assuming that won’t be available on the Digital Copy).

Did you see WORLD WAR Z over the weekend? What did you think? Leave a comment below!