Brad Pitt's Zombie Blockbuster Is Officially Back and Climbing Free Streaming Charts

It points to a certain kind of post-theatrical success when a movie that seemingly did just fine at the box office gets a sequel. Greenland 2: Migration was made because the first Greenland movie was a huge hit on the PVOD market, even though it didn't break even at the box office. The same goes for the movies of Guy Ritchie, which basically function as part of the same universe even if they aren't actually connected to each other. None of Ritchie's movies in the past five years has done well at the box office, but they're streaming juggernauts, and he has never been busier. But these films typically cost around $50 million to produce, which makes the economics surrounding them relatively manageable. However, a 13-year-old film that survived a train-wreck of a production and cost nearly $270 million to produce is also getting a sequel.

This is extremely rare; remember, Sony declined to move forward with a sequel to David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo even though it made more than $230 million on a reported $90 million budget. The costs were deemed too high. However, the 2013 movie is a fixture on the global Paramount+ charts even today, which proves how popular it has been and validates the studio's decision to not give up on a sequel. In fact, Fincher was rumored to be directing the movie for the longest time, before Edward Berger was finally hired. Fincher, instead, is gearing up for the release of another follow-up to a different filmmaker's movie: The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.