For those who like monster movies, this is bad news. Warner’s monster universe movie "Godzilla vs. King Kong" has now decided to be postponed.
has experienced three movies including "King Kong: Skull Island", "Godzilla 1" and "Godzilla 2: King of Monsters". The monster universe created by Warner has not achieved the expected popularity and market profitability. For this year's "King of Monsters" alone, the initial production costs and marketing costs were roughly between 170 and 200 million US dollars. In the end, the global box office reached only 385.9 million US dollars, which is not a success.
Although Warner denied the previous film's plan for the next "Godzilla vs. King Kong", through repeated adjustments to the release schedule, it was still possible to detect Warner's hesitation on this movie. "Godzilla vs. King Kong" was originally scheduled for May 29, 2020, and was later adjusted for a week, May 22. Then jumped forward to March 13. But the latest news is that "Godzilla vs. King Kong" finally jumped to November 20, 2020. The main purpose of
Warner's move is to give these two little monsters a time frame without competitors, so as to ensure that "Godzilla vs. King Kong" becomes the absolute king in the market. At present, on November 20 next year, there will be the female emotional movie "The Happiest Season" starring Kristen Stewart, and the action movie "Samaria" starring Stallone. For the little monsters, in the theme In terms of the difference between Shanghai and the film, it still has an advantage.
At that time, the box office results of "Godzilla vs. King Kong" will be of great significance to the monster universe created by Warner. It depends on the box office performance whether to keep going one way or to stop the loss in time.
Zhang Ziyi, who participated in "Godzilla 2: King of Monsters", will continue to appear in "Godzilla vs. King Kong".
