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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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‘MaXXXine’ – Mia Goth Takes Hollywood in New Image from Ti West’s Sequel

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One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.

With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.

Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…

“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”

If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.

Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.

Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.

Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.

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