![]() ![]() “We always believed that we could make a movie that wasn’t specifically geared towards men,” said Goldstein. couldn’t lure the wider demos to “Tomb Raider” that flocked to DC Comics blockbuster “Wonder Woman.” However, it faced off against “Black Panther,” which still topped the box office in its fifth week, and Warner Bros. In 2003, Jan DeBont’s follow-up, “Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” fared only slightly better with critics, and scored $157 million worldwide the original “Tomb Raider” made $273 million.Įven at a 48 Metascore for the new movie, it fared far better with critics than the original. Paramount targeted its initial “Tomb Raider” marketing at male videogame players who could still be relied upon to crowd opening weekends. After its second weekend, the movie tallies $41.7 million domestic and a worldwide total of $211 million. Domestically, it was a ‘tweener - neither a male actioner for videogame hounds, nor a smarthouse movie aimed at Swedish star Alicia Vikander, who won a Supporting Actress Oscar for “The Danish Girl.” Sure enough, the action movie opened at number one in China, the world’s second-biggest market. ![]() “We looked at the property as an international piece driving the business,” he said. “And that’s essentially what happened.” ![]() distribution chief Jeff Goldstein admitted that “Tomb Raider” was targeted from the start to appeal to foreign audiences, especially in China. It may barely squeak into the black via robust returns in overseas markets. No matter! It’s time for some “Indiana Jones” knockoff style adventure, with Lara quickly morphing into an unstoppable action hero, capable of surviving multiple beatings and a number of falls from great heights (not to mention a nasty wound to the abdomen), all the while showing remarkable prowess as an archer and MMA-style fighter, and genius-level acumen when it comes to solving complex riddles and deciphering cave paintings.For the last five weeks, new movies have seen their opening box office slashed by “Black Panther.” And one casualty - on the domestic side at least - was franchise reboot “ Tomb Raider.” When the videogame franchise opened to $23 million in North America last weekend, “Tomb Raider” was written off as a box office disappointment. Given they’ve been there for nearly a decade, how much is Vogel paying these henchmen? Where is everybody living? Where are they getting, I don’t know, food and water and clothing? We never see how he keeps this small economy going in the midst of an unforgiving jungle. Vogel has a whole team of well-armed henchmen, and dozens of slave laborers. The fantastic character actor Walton Goggins (far less interesting here than he’s been in such fare as “The Hateful Eight” and on the TV series “Justified”) plays Vogel, the ruthless madman who has been hired by an all-powerful and evil corporation to find the tomb and bring it back to civilization. Daniel Wu is charming, funny and underused as Lu Ren, the booze-soaked captain of a dilapidated vessel who agrees to take Lara to the island because HIS father went missing seven years after agreeing to take Lara’s father to the island. ![]()
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