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‘Godzilla x Kong’ Roars to Life With Massive $194 Million Worldwide Opening Weekend

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The fifth film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was unleashed into theaters over the weekend, and Kaiju fans damn sure showed up to support it.

Godzilla x Kong topped the domestic box office in the #1 spot for its debut weekend, roaring to life with a massive $80 million Easter weekend debut here in the United States.

The team-up film made another $114 million at the international box office over the weekend, with the worldwide total for Godzilla x Kong already hitting $194 million thus far.

The even bigger story here? The MonsterVerse is now a $2 BILLION franchise!

For the sake of comparison, here are the domestic opening weekend numbers for the four previous films in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, which kicked off exactly ten years ago…

  • Godzilla (2014) – $93 million
  • Kong: Skull Island (2017) – $61 million
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) – $47 million
  • Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) – $31 million

The production budget for director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong was reportedly $135 million, so the film should have no trouble turning a huge profit in the coming weeks.

Meagan wrote in her review of the new movie for Bloody Disgusting, “Wingard continues the kaiju spectacle with the latest Legendary Monsterverse crossover event, this time injecting an even greater sense of adventure and silliness. It’s the type of epic-sized popcorn movie that unleashes nonstop monster brawls and tongue-in-cheek humor in equal measure.”

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire sees the legendary Titans Godzilla and Kong team up to face a world-ending threat so terrifying that neither of them could survive it alone.

It seems pretty safe to say at this point in time that the Monsterverse isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but a sixth movie has not yet been announced at this time. Stay tuned.

And let’s please renew “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” yeah?

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Adam Wingard Not Returning to Direct ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Follow-Up

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We had learned two weeks ago that a sixth installment in Legendary’s 10-years-strong Monsterverse is in the works, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us the latest update tonight.

The site reports that Adam Wingard, who directed both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong, will NOT be returning to direct the upcoming follow-up to Godzilla x Kong.

THR notes, “The parting of ways is described as amicable and stemming from timing issues. The door remains open for a future return, per insiders.”

Wingard is instead returning to his roots with the upcoming Onslaught, an action-thriller for A24 that’s said to be more in the vein of his earlier movies You’re Next and The Guest.

Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is writing the upcoming sixth movie in the Monsterverse franchise. We have no idea if it’ll be a follow-up to Adam Wingard’s two movies, or if it will take the film franchise down a new path. Stay tuned.

Beginning with the Godzilla film in 2014 and continuing through 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, and most recently the record-breaking Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the Monsterverse has accumulated over $2B at the global box office and expanded into the highly successful event series, Legendary’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple TV+. We recently learned that “Monarch” is getting a second season, with more Monsterverse spinoff shows being planned at Apple TV+.

“Apple TV+ has struck a new multi-series deal with Legendary Entertainment, which includes multiple spinoff series based on the franchise,” the recent press release had stated.

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