‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Global Box Office Climbs Towards Giant Milestone

Although the domestic box office is in a mess, 20th Century Studios Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes it continues to deliver the goods in silence. The big-budget fourth installment of the Planet of the Apes prequel series held onto a spot in the top five domestically, while adding $20 million from more than 50 international markets in its third weekend of release And so is the film on the verge of surpassing a major worldwide box office milestone though the industry is reeling from this week's underperformance Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes grossed $13 million in its third weekend domestically and is on track for an estimated $17 million over the four-day Memorial Day holiday period. That brings the film to $122 million domestically and an additional $172 million from foreign markets, for a cumulative global gross of $294 million. The film's global cume on Monday will reach at least $296 million, which means it should be able to cross the $300 million mark before its fourth opening weekend. Directed by Wes Ball, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is projected to have a lifetime global run of around $400 million, which would be a step below the previous three installments of the prequel series, but still a very admirable performance for a film what Production reportedly cost $160 million.

The new Planet of the Apes movies suffer Avatar syndrome, as it's common for casual audiences to point out that these films don't have much of a cultural legacy, but continue to rack up big box office numbers. After debuting in the 1960s, the series was rebooted in 2001 with Tim Burtonis poorly received Planet of the Apes, which grossed over $360 million worldwide. The franchise was rebooted a decade later, with Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which grossed $471 million in its global run. director Matt Reeves He then took the reins and delivered the biggest hit of the series, Dawn of the Planet of the Apeswhich grossed over $700 million worldwide in 2014. He followed it up with War for the Planet of the Apeswhich ended its global run with an estimated $490 million in 2017.

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Each of these three films, particularly the Reeves installments, have been critically acclaimed, with praise directed at their dark tone and Andy Serkis' innovative motion capture performance as the heroic ape Caesar. The streak continued, albeit to a lesser degree, with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Set a few hundred years after the events of war, the film introduces a number of new characters which will supposedly lead the franchise into a new era of movies. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes sat with a score of 80% on aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider's Ross Bonaime wrote in his review that the film “works best when it explores its past and how the world evolves, especially when it comes to Caesar's legacy.” starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand And others, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is playing in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.