![]() ![]() That brings us to the inevitable sequel set ten years later, which brings back Caesar and many of the apes, but brings in a whole new cast of humans including Gary Oldman, Australian actor Jason Clarke ( Zero Dark Thirty, Lawless), Keri Russell, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirk Acevedo (“Oz”) as well as actors Toby Kebbell and Judy Greer performing two key ape roles. (In turn, it grossed over $300 million overseas, showing the growth of the international market in the past ten years.) It opened somewhat soft with $54.8 million in over 3,600 theaters and went on to gross $176.7 million domestic, falling just short of the Burton movie despite there being ten years of ticket inflation. It would be ten years before 20th Century Fox revisited the “apes” franchise with the new reboot prequel Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which put Andy Serkis front and center as Caesar, a young chimp saved from the labs by scientists, played by James Franco and Freida Pinto, who would go onto becoming the intelligent leader of the apes revolution. It went on to gross $180 million in North America and the same amount overseas. Despite the mediocre reviews, the movie set a new non-holiday opening record with $68.5 million, just ahead of The Mummy Returns, which also opened that summer. ![]() The five movies eventually led to a television series and then in 2001, Tim Burton “reimagined” the original movie with a not particularly popular version of the movie starring Mark Wahlberg. The original five “Planet of the Apes” came out between 19 with the original Planet of the Apes considered by many to be a science fiction classic. It’s the sequel to the successful reboot of the “Apes” franchise with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which replaced the customary masks and ape outfits of the original movies with state-of-the-art CG and performance capture technology, led by a pioneer in that technology, Andy Serkis. Although the box office is clearly down from last year, this already has been a summer full of big blockbusters, and many that were well-received critically and among moviegoers, and this weekend continues that trend with the release of just one new movie, the anticipated sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox). ![]()
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