#John wick 2 blu ray special movie#
A clever twist that positioned the action star as the hero this time out, paired with a ripped/bad-ass Linda Hamilton against a liquid metal rival killer robot, helped make it the event movie of the summer. Moreover, it was sold as a proverbial follow-up to Twins, Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop just as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star was about to hit supernova. It was the first film to cost $100m and featured jaw-dropping stunts and special effects. But James Cameron’s sequel, which is somewhat of a big-budget remake of his $6m original, was sold as the biggest action movie you’d ever seen. The Terminator earned strong reviews and $38 million domestic in 1984. That’s not unlike a few other films on this list. Oddly, while Mad Max was a huge hit worldwide (over $100 million in 1979), it didn’t break out in North America, so Mad Max 2 was retitled The Road Warrior in the States and became a break-out smash of its own accord. Ditto Evil Dead ($2.4m in 1981) and Evil Dead 2 ($5.9m in 1987), neither of which played on more than 350 screens in their theatrical lifespans. Ditto Clerks II ($24.1m in 2006 in 2,150 theaters) versus Clerks ($3.15m in 1994 in 33 theaters).Īnd that’s not counting the likes of First Blood ($42 million in 1982) opening on over 1,000 screens but Rambo: First Blood Part II ($150m) opening on 2,000 screens in 1985 or The Terminator ($38m) opening in 1,005 screens in 1984 while Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($204m) opened on 2,274 screens seven years later.īoth Highlander ($5.9 million in 1986) and Highlander II: The Quickening ($15.5m in 1991) opened in around 1,100 theaters so you can chalk that one up to a post-theatrical network TV/cable/HBO following. So yeah, Boondock Saints II made $10.2 million in 2009 while Boondock Saints made just $30,471, the earlier 1999 release played on just five screens.
Six of them ( Boondock Saints II, Desperado, Clerks II, The Road Warrior and The Color of Money) were sequels released in a wide/semi-wide release to predecessors that didn’t get traditional wide releases. Looking at the 17 other films, four of them ( The Boondock Saints II, Clerks II, The Color of Money and Tron: Legacy) were released at least a decade after the prior installment. And when you remove some mitigating factors, it’s in even rarer company. John Wick: Chapter 2 is now among 18 relatively recent “part 2” sequels to double the North American total of their respective predecessors. So, for the moment let’s concentrate on domestic grosses.