& # 39; Skyscraper & # 39; to have a boxing office for Dwayne Johnson

At the dawn of the second half of the summer, the box office is expected to slow down after the best quarter of the history of the industry. This drop starts this weekend, as "Skyscraper" from Universal and "Transylvania Hotel 3" from Sony Pictures Animation opened against a second weekend "Ant-Man and the Wasp."

The two films are screened by 40 million analysts in the country and are competing against "Wasp" for place # 1, with "Hotel Transylvania" opening at 4,200 locations and "Skyscraper" opening at 3,700.

But that will not be enough for "Skyscraper", with its budget of $ 120 million, co-financed by Universal and Legendary Entertainment, Chinese property. The film looks for success in China, where Legendary East distributes, as well as other foreign markets, to recover its big expenses. With the thriller action in Hong Kong and Dwayne Johnson in the lead role, the pieces are up for thriller action to find better box office success in Asia.

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While Johnson has had a lot of national success – most recently the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle of $ 404 million – this movie is more likely to happen in America's North. , "A Johnson film that opened at $ 23 million on Memorial Day weekend last year and had a $ 58 million domestic run, counting on a total of $ 117 million overseas to get an elevator, but the production budget for this $ 69 million parody film was significantly lower than that of "Skyscraper."

Johnson appeared in a number of record-breaking blockbusters, Fast & Furious "to Moana." But the question is: Are these successes largely due to its star power or the respective concepts of the movies in which it appears? If "Skyscraper" collapses on the national level, the power of "The Rock" by name is once again questioned.

Anyway, Johnson tells us that he should produce another billion dollars next year. Fast & Furious "spinoff" Hobbs & Shaw, "does not sweat too hard.It should appear in nine other films after" Skyscraper ", including the sequel to" Jumanji ".

Meanwhile, the opening $ 35-40 million would be a good start for "Hotel Transylvania 3", which has a much cheaper budget of $ 65 million.In comparison, the first "Transylvania Hotel" opened at $ 42 million in 2012, while The following 2015 opened at $ 48 million, the best opening for an animated version of Sony.

This is a big decline in quick successes in the first half of the summer, but that's not the case. was expected, with success in all four quadrants such as "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Incredibles 2" now in the rear-view mirror, it will probably be several months before movie theaters see another outing with a weekend away. 39; opening of $ 100 million .In fact, the opening of $ 76 million for "Ant-Man and the Wasp" could be the most important opening for this quarter.

"The third quarter of the year is going to have a lot of movies with smaller budgets or intended for specific audiences," said analyst relations with exhibitors, Jeff Bock. "The numbers are going to be much smaller, but we are so far ahead of the pace of last year that movie theaters will not need these great hits, and we might even see some surprises on the way. "

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"Skyscraper" star Johnson as Will Sawyer, a former FBI agent and amputee who gets a job as chief of security For the largest building in the world, but when the terrorists attack the building and frame it for the crime, Sawyer must erase his name and save his family from danger.Realson Marshall Thurber wrote and directed the film, who has a score of 58% s ur Rotten Tomatoes

"Transylvania Hotel 3" sees Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) and his family take a break from the monster getaway place and head on a cruise vacation. On the way, Dracula falls in love with the captain of the ship, Ericka (Kathryn Hahn), not knowing that she is the great-granddaughter of Dracula's archduke, Abraham Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan)

Genndy Tartakovsky directed the film and wrote it with Michael McCullers. The film also stars a cast with Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Keegan-Michael Key, Molly Shannon, Fran Drescher, and Mel Brooks, who take up all their roles from previous movies in the series . The film has an RT score of 71 percent.

Dwayne Movies & The Rock & # 39; Johnson, ranked from worst to best (Photos)

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  Dwayne Johnson is one of the last big movie stars. Whether it's kicking, tickling funny bones or (often) both, The Rock has the odd ability to make almost every movie better by showing up.

  (Note: These films are graded by quality and Dwayne Johnson-ness minor role is generally small, and cameos are included only if they are outstanding.)

  
  

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  Honorable Mention : "The Mummy Returns" (2001)
  

  It's hard to judge "The Mummy Returns" as a "Dwayne Johnson film": The wrestler became an actor in the film for a very short prologue then he comes back to the end as a CGI scorpion monster. But that's the first major role of Johnson in a movie, so it deserves a hasty nod for that reason and (since the movie is so hyperactive, it's rather hard to watch) for that reason alone.

  Universal Pictures
  

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  Honorable Mention: "The Other Guys" (2010)
  

  Johnson has done more than a police comedy where his cameo is not his own. is nothing but a joke (see also: "Reno 911 !: Miami"), but his appearance in "The Other Guys" of Adam McKay is a treat. Johnson appears as the ideal heroic action movie of law enforcement, facing Samuel L. Jackson, to die unexpectedly, forcing "the other guys" – Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg – to take the Central place. It's a small part, but Johnson owns it, and the rest of the movie is as funny as heck too.

  Columbia Pictures
  

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  27. "Snitch" (2013)
  

  Johnson made several embarrassing movies (we'll come back to that in a minute), but he's never made a more boring movie than "Snitch". He plays the role of a father whose son is arrested for drugs, and the only way to get the child out of jail is to kill a larger drug dealer. So Johnson goes undercover to find one. The idea is luscious and interesting, but the film is turgid and lifeless, only remarkable by a strong support of Jon Bernthal

Summit Entertainment

26. "Doom" (2005)

This may not be the worst video game movie, but it says much more about other video game movies than about "Doom" . Johnson and Karl Urban play the role of Space Marines during a mission to Mars, where monsters kill people. Andrzej Bartkowiak's film is so poorly lit that it's hard to tell what's going on, and when you understand what's going on, you realize it's really silly. The last battle between Johnson and Urban is pretty cool, but it's not worth watching the rest of this awful movie to get there

Universal Pictures

25. "Southland Tales" (2006)

Richard E. Kelly's ambitious sequel to "Donnie Darko" has an awesome cast and lots of great ideas, but the cast is wasted, and the big ideas are the kind that you will only find with when you are wasted. Johnson holds the role of a conservative movie star who gets trapped in a vast sci-fi conspiracy, but the film is not funny, it's not perceptive , and even the wildest moments are not crazy enough. If you're wondering what it would look like if Neil Breen was doing "Wild Palms" again, well, you have very specific tastes, but that's the movie for you. And probably only you.

Universal Pictures

24. "Baywatch" (2017)

Johnson takes over the role of David Hasselhoff in "Baywatch", a comic adaptation of a television series that probably did not know that it was funny. This is not a bad idea, and Johnson occasionally takes advantage of it, but the film's sense of grotesque humor and lazy stereotypes undermine any attempt at ingenuity. Believe it or not, "Baywatch" deserved better.