On the last day of CinemaCon, Paramount Pictures’ Jim Gianopulos touted his inherited franchise hits “Bumblebee” ($462 million worldwide) and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” ($800 million worldwide) as well as “A Quiet Place” ($340 million worldwide). And as he replenishes the studio’s bare larder, he presented a conservative slate with two outstanding potential breakouts.
The fruits of his step-by-step strategy include family movies from Nickelodeon, animated fare and a live-action Sega family movie starring Jim Carrey as literally mustache-twirling villain Dr. Robotnik.
In the plus column, the choice of “Deadpool” director Tim Miller to pick up where James Cameron left off on “Terminator 2” seems inspired. While working on the “Avatar” sequels, which he began when Gianopulos was still running Fox, Cameron came up with the concept and story for “Terminator: Dark Fate” (November) and put together a project at Paramount with writers Billy Ray and David S. Goyer, David Ellison’s Skydance, Arnold Schwarzenegger,...
The fruits of his step-by-step strategy include family movies from Nickelodeon, animated fare and a live-action Sega family movie starring Jim Carrey as literally mustache-twirling villain Dr. Robotnik.
In the plus column, the choice of “Deadpool” director Tim Miller to pick up where James Cameron left off on “Terminator 2” seems inspired. While working on the “Avatar” sequels, which he began when Gianopulos was still running Fox, Cameron came up with the concept and story for “Terminator: Dark Fate” (November) and put together a project at Paramount with writers Billy Ray and David S. Goyer, David Ellison’s Skydance, Arnold Schwarzenegger,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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