With the moviegoing hotbeds of New York and Los Angeles slowly opening up their theatres again, it appears that Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong is ready to trample over similar giant cityscapes on its way towards a pandemic-best opening at the box-office.
The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive story suggests that ‘moviegoing confidence hits highest level since pandemic began’, which will in turn lead to a pandemic best $20 million or more opening for the Monsterverse sequel.
A survey conducted by the National Research Group, who are a leading Hollywood entertainment polling firm, has asked cinemagoers on a weekly basis since the start of the pandemic how they’d feel about going back to the big-screen, and this Thursday those saying that they would return to the multiplex rose to 57%, the highest since they shut down in March 2020.
Two weeks before Godzilla vs. Kong becomes the next box office litmus test, these results, coupled with the increased vaccination roll-out, and the re-opening of major territories, has led some analysts to predict the simultaneous cinema and HBO Max release will stomp all over Wonder Woman 1984‘s Christmas opening of $16.7 million.
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Legends collide in “Godzilla vs. Kong” as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Kong and his protectors undertake a perilous journey to find his true home, and with them is Jia, a young orphaned girl with whom he has formed a unique and powerful bond. But they unexpectedly find themselves in the path of an enraged Godzilla, cutting a swath of destruction across the globe. The epic clash between the two titans—instigated by unseen forces—is only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth.
Godzilla vs. Kong is directed by Adam Wingard (The Guest, Blair Witch) and sees Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Kyle Chandler (Bloodline) and Ziyi Zhang (The Cloverfield Paradox) reprising their roles from Godzilla: King of the Monsters, while new additions to the MonsterVerse include Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies), Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta), Demian Bichir (The Hateful Eight), Rebecca Hall (Holmes and Watson), Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver), Shun Oguri (Crows Zero), Lance Reddick (The Wire) and Kaylee Hottle.
