After being earmarked for success several years ago, Cailee Spaeny has lived up to her potential with her recent work. She earned an Oscar nomination and won the Volpi Cup for her performance in Sofia Coppola‘s unconventional biopic Priscilla, and more recently, received acclaim for her work in Civil War, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and the second season of Netflix’s Beef. Spaeny also experienced box-office success with Alien: Romulus, which grossed $350 million worldwide. She will next star in the most expensive A24 movie ever made, director Alex Garland‘s fantasy adaptation Elden Ring. One of Spaeny’s earliest leading roles came in a movie that was even more expensive. The movie in question underperformed at the box office and brought its franchise to a screeching halt. But it saw a resurgence on HBO Max recently, eight years after its theatrical release.
The film also featured Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega and Clint Eastwood‘s son, Scott. The movie marked the feature directorial debut of Steven S. DeKnight, who remains best known for his work on Marvel’s Daredevil series on Netflix and for creating the Starz show Spartacus. The movie served as a sequel to Guillermo del Toro‘s first large-scale project, Pacific Rim, which grossed around $410 million globally against a reported budget of $190 million in 2013. That film was distributed by Warner Bros., but the sequel was distributed by Universal. The second movie was produced mainly because of the extraordinary performance of its predecessor in China; to further capitalize on the Middle Kingdom audience, the sequel cast Chinese stars such as Jing Tian and Zhang Jin in supporting roles.
The Sci-Fi Sequel Received Mediocre Reviews
We’re talking, of course, about Pacific Rim Uprising. Produced on a reported budget of $176 million, the movie grossed $291 million worldwide. It now holds a 42% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, Pacific Rim Uprising won’t win any points for subtlety or originality, but it delivers enough of the rock ’em-sock ’em robots-vs.-kaiju thrills that fans of the original will be looking for.” According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most watched movies on the domestic HBO Max chart this week, when the leaderboard was topped by The Long Walk. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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March 23, 2018
- Runtime
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111 minutes
- Director
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Steven S. DeKnight
- Writers
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Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, Steven S. DeKnight, T.S. Nowlin, Travis Beacham
- Producers
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Guillermo del Toro, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Thomas Tull, Femi Oguns







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