Brad Pitt's World War Z

For profitability it has a long way to go. But at least Brad Pitt’s zombie picWorld War Z isn’t the deverybody thought it would be. Paramount announced today it is currently the #1 film worldwide this weekend with $100M international box office grosses and $263M global box office after just 10 days in release. The PG-13 film co-financed with David Ellison’s Skydance Productions in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films grossed a big $70.1M foreign this weekend to bring the international cume to a strong $135.3M. Locally the film grossed around approx $29.8M in its second weekend, with a cume to date of $123.7M. With approximately one-third of the international market still to release, the roll-out continues next week with France and then Spain and Japan opening later this summer.  Directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof, this pic from Pitt’s Plan B banner is based on the popular novel by Max Brooks. Paramount moguls are giddy with relief after all that pre-release bad buzz which forced them to fix the movie before it came out. Much has been made of the film’s mega-cost: between $220M-$230M brought down to $200M by tax incentives in locations Scotland, Malta, England, and Hungary, or so the studio claims. But the media focused on the pictures budget, plot, and production problems, including revamps and reshoots. Still hard to see how this film can gross more. But it won’t be a total write-off. Now a sequel is in the works.

Source:Deadline