The best markets ultimately should include a mix of the UK, Korea, Japan, China and France. In the UK, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gives it five stars and calls it “a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic” and insists it “just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible.” On the aggressive side, it’s possible that Blade Runner 2049 mints $50M stateside and $60M overseas. Sony is understood to be pegging it closer to $48M-$52M. reports that Blade Runner 2049 advance ticket sales are selling at 6x that of Villeneuve’s previous film, last year’s sci-fi Best Picture nominee Arrival ($24M opening weekend) and 3x that of last summer’s War for the Planet of the Apes ($56.3M opening).Ĭritics are over the moon about Blade Runner 2049, giving a 95% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.
Last week, Fandango reported that advance ticket sales for Blade Runner 2049 were outpacing that of Fury Road and October’s top two record openers, Gravity ($55.8M) and Scott’s The Martian ($54.3M). Those figures, by the way, are within the wheelhouse of other late-’70s/early -’80s cult sci-fi reboots: read Mad Max: Fury Road ($45.4M domestic opening), Tron: Legacy ($44M), and Prometheus ($51M). That start easily will make Blade Runner 2049 the biggest box office opening for leading man Ryan Gosling and director Denis Villeneuve. 1 stateside with roughly $45M at 4,000-plus theaters and an overseas opening in the mid-$50M range for a grand $100M global debut. with $6.1M behind the third weekend of E.T., which made $13.7M, the hope by financier Alcon and Sony International Releasing is that the three-plus decades worth of generational fans will come out for Blade Runner 2049. The sequel easily will own No. Unlike the time when the original Blade Runner opened second at the domestic B.O. 'Blade Runner 2049' Review: Gosling's Cool, But Ford Owns Long-Awaited Sequel That Could Have Used A Little Editingīut over time, Blade Runner has aged like great wine, yielding various recuts, over-the-top critical acclaim and a spot in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.