It came through the Breach on August 11, 2013, at oh seven hundred hours.
I was fifteen when the first kaiju made land in San Francisco. A portal between dimensions, one we would come to know simply as The Breach. but it came from beneath the sea.Ī fissure between two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean. We always thought alien life would come from the stars. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.Ī CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Names, characters, places, and incidents are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. And the whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking, ‘Internationally, it’s going to be a monster.Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office division of, expects the movie to reap megabucks overseas, however it performs domestically. Which means predictions of Pacific’s doom may be seriously unfounded. Tracking has been way off this summer - witness Gatsby and Man of Steel - in large part because audience research is unreliable when it comes to the young audiences that flock to films (tracking services can’t legally call people on their cell phones). Tull already surprised Hollywood when another picture he had been intensely involved with, the period baseball drama 42, proved a sleeper hit in the spring he’ll do so even more if this film (in which his company has a 75 percent stake) comes through.Īnd of course, it’s not too late. If I were Thomas Tull, I’d want to close this thing before Pacific Rim opens.” “Hollywood is a momentum town, and if the momentum is down, enthusiasm will be tempered. If that picture flops, “It won’t help,” says one executive familiar with all the parties involved. Giant Monsters: 6 New ‘Pacific Rim’ Posters Regardless of Legendary’s bottom line - and no other financing entity has had similar success in years - the industry has long followed the mantra, “You’re only as good as your last picture.” More than Warners’ fortunes, however, the film will affect those of its most significant partner, Legendary Entertainment.Īfter months of speculation about whether Legendary would remain in Burbank, news surfaced recently that talks have collapsed and CEO Thomas Tull is now eyeing other venues, including Universal Pictures (where sources say he’s been having on-and-off conversations for years). It will make Hollywood better understand Time Warner’s willingness to see Robinov go (possibly to Fox, where billionaire Arnon Milchan has been pressuring Rupert Murdoch to bolster his movie division) and remind the industry that Robinov wasn’t so perfect after all. If Pacific Rim fails, weirdly, that might not be so bad for the threesome either. In Gatsby’s case, initial predictions that the Baz Luhrmann drama would debut to $30 million or $35 million were shattered when it crossed the $50 million mark, and Man of Steel’s $117 million weekend bested even the most optimistic predictions. Kroll already overdelivered this summer with two pictures, The Great Gatsby and Man of Steel, each of which was tracking to open far lower than it eventually did. If Pacific Rim can outpace early predictions, it will add leverage to Kroll, Warners’ dynamic head of marketing (she has now added distribution to her portfolio). The first is the shift from one studio regime to another as Warners’ movie chief Jeff Robinov has exited his post and been replaced by the troika of Toby Emmerich, Sue Kroll and Greg Silverman. But the monsters-vs.-robots drama lands smack-bang in the middle of two major transitions. The release of any potential franchise movie is cause for anxiety on a studio lot, especially one that cost north of $180 million.
PHOTOS: 26 of Summer’s Most Anticipated Movies release was tracking softly this week (numbers ranged from $30 million up) unleashed a veritable spewing-forth of speculation, with naysayers calling it this summer’s Battleship and director Guillermo del Toro pronouncing: “We just need to keep working. When Pacific Rim opens July 12, its success or failure could impact more than just the film itself.?
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