CBS Family Movie and TV Awards Nominates Godzilla x Kong: The Contemporary Empire for Easiest Feature Movie

CBS‘ Family Movie and TV Awards nominated the Godzilla vs. Kong movie sequel Godzilla x Kong: The Contemporary Empire for Easiest Feature Movie in its twenty seventh annual awards. The movie is nominated alongside Arthur the King, Dune: Half Two, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and Twisters. The awards ceremony will likely be held on November 9.

Godzilla x Kong: The Contemporary Empire opened within the US on March 29, two weeks earlier than its old deliberate April 12 date. (The April 12 liberate used to be itself a extend from its authentic March 15 opening.)

The movie earned abut US$8 million right by intention of its preview screenings on March 28 in roughly 3,400 locations within the U.S. The earnings tag the 2d-finest previews for a “Monsterverse” movie, as 2014’s Godzilla earned US$9.3 million in preview screenings. The movie earned US$80 million in its opening weekend within the U.S., topping the box build of job for the weekend.

The movie opened in Japan on April 26, and debuted at #2 within the box build of job. The movie equipped 306,000 tickets and earned 466,704,060 yen (about US$2.97 million in newest conversion) in its first four days (the movie opened on a prolonged weekend). The movie has earned a cumulative whole of 1,628,014,180 yen (about US$10.36 million) as of Could simply 26.

Godzilla x Kong: The Contemporary Empire is the excellent-grossing movie in Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment‘s “Monsterverse” series, with US$570 million earnings worldwide, beating the 2017 movie Kong: Skull Island, which earned US$568.8 million.

The movie’s home and global earnings are at US$196.3 million and US$373.7 million, respectively. The movie is the excellent-grossing “Monsterverse” title in 35 markets including Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The movie is moreover for the time being the 2d highest-grossing Hollywood movie this yr, with Dune: Half Two for the time being preserving the cease build. Deadline previously reported that Warner Bros. is the first studio to immoral the US$1 billion tag on the worldwide box build of job this yr, with the two films as its biggest releases this yr to date.

The Hollywood Reporter now not too prolonged within the past reported that the movie’s director Adam Wingard will now not return for its sequel resulting from “timing issues.” Wingard is reportedly planning to speak an authentic movie titled Onslaught this fall, before taking on another initiatives. The Hollywood Reporter has moreover reported that screenwriter David Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Epic of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: ACross the Spider-Verse films) will write the script for the next work within the series, and Grant Sputore (I Am Mother) will speak.

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Source: Deadline (Lynette Rice)