Jason Bourne's box office gross so far after nearly 4weeks

Current unadjusted standing in the series

Domestic:

1 The Bourne Ultimatum Uni. $227,471,070
2 The Bourne Supremacy Uni. $176,241,941
3 Jason Bourne Uni. $140,920,180
4 The Bourne Identity Uni. $121,661,683
5 The Bourne Legacy Uni. $113,203,870


World:

1 The Bourne Ultimatum Uni. $442.8 $227.5 51.4% $215.4 48.6% 2007
2 The Bourne Supremacy Uni. $288.5 $176.2 61.1% $112.3 38.9% 2004
3 Jason Bourne Uni. $278.8 $140.9 50.5% $137.9 49.5% 2016
4 The Bourne Legacy Uni. $276.1 $113.2 41% $162.9 59% 2012
5 The Bourne Identity Uni. $214.0 $121.7 56.8% $92.4 43.2% 2002

With those market yet to open:
China 23 August 2016
Georgia 1 September 2016
Greece 1 September 2016
Italy 1 September 2016
Russia 1 September 2016
Japan 7 October 2016

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Ultimatum made in those market:
Italy: 7,033,305
Russia: 5,909,838
Japan: $15,197,984
Greece: 1,718,642
Last one in China (market was almost nill at ultimatum time)
16,059,636

Around 45 million.

If it finish around 150 dom/340 million WW, it look really good to me (not ultimatum or the previous Bourne released in the heart of the 2004 to 2007 dvd bubble great, but they must have expected that), specially with the current exchange rate.

Specially if that 120 million rumored budget is true, movie that do 1.1 time or more their budget domestic tend to be in really good shape and good money maker.

It's a movie too far. The Bourne story was resolved at the end of Ultimatum ( if not before). The lack of Tony Gilroy as writer and the massive increase of nausea cam alienated audiences.The intelligence of previous Bourne movies was missing and the Vegas car chase should have been in a superhero film.
I think that another Bourne movie with Damon was like an exotic meal that isn't particularly appetising when served.

For all the constant derision Damon and Greengrass have hurled at Gilroy over the years, it does seem pretty clear that he was a crucial element in the franchise's success, and replacing him with Greengrass and an editor who'd never written anything before felt a bit like all those Pink Panther films Blake Edwards insisted on making after Peter Sellers died to prove that he was the real reason the films were hits. It's not a bomb but with that steep second weekend drop and failure to build on previous entries the way other franchises have (even though the film is clearly just a cash grab for all concerned) it has to be a disappointment.

Also, given how massively overbudget Greengrass went on his last two films with Damon and the way Universal were still claiming Green Zone only cost $85m even when the film was almost completely remade after sitting on the shelf for over a year (the trades estimated the true cost at nearer $150m), I'm rather sceptical about just how realistic that $120m budget figure is.


"Security - release the badgers."

I'm rather sceptical about just how realistic that $120m budget figure is.


Wikipedia filming section, if those are true it sound expensive:

In August 2015, producers met Clark County, Nevada officials to get approval to shoot on The Strip, requesting a shutdown of Las Vegas Boulevard for several hours a day, for seven to ten days. It was not clear whether the producers obtained a license to do so. Damon told Buzzfeed that the film would start production in September, starting in Greece (these scenes, set in Greece, were actually filmed in Tenerife, Canary Islands) and Las Vegas,[33] and would have Bourne in "a post-Snowden world".[34][35]

Principal photography on the film commenced on September 8, 2015.[36] In early November, filming took place outside Paddington Station in London, England.[37] In late November 2015, filming took place in Kreuzberg, Berlin.[38] In early December 2015, filming started in Washington, D.C., where shooting took place at Constitution Gardens.[39] Filming in Las Vegas, Nevada was scheduled to begin on January 14, 2016, lasting until January 21.[40] Production on the film concluded on February 1, 2016.[41] Filming also took place in March 2016 at the Woolwich train station in Greenwich, London.


And not sure how much it qualify for those massive tax credit movies tend to get if they spend more than X% in one place.

For all the constant derision Damon and Greengrass have hurled at Gilroy over the years, it does seem pretty clear that he was a crucial element in the franchise's success, and replacing him with Greengrass and an editor who'd never written anything before felt a bit like all those Pink Panther films Blake Edwards insisted on making after Peter Sellers died to prove that he was the real reason the films were hits

That's more akin to a bourne legacy situation. The closest thing in pink panther matching bourne's situation is like the one pink panther film peter sellers wanted to direct instead of blake edwards (if that had been released, it may have been panned). It would have been like paul greengrass wanting to write the film himself instead of relying of tony gilroy.


I would say gilroy, greengrass, and damon are like the 3 batteries required. If any one of them gets left out, then the whole thing doesn't work.

BTW, what are your thoughts on bourne legacy?

I think Greengrass is the expendable one, the first two sequels working in spite of his direction rather than because of it. The best in the series was directed by Liman and the third was too much of a rehash of the second, largely because of Greengrass throwing out the script, original premise and the first few weeks of shooting to 'discover' (translation: make up on the hoof) the film as he went along, which basically involved copying all the previous film's plot points and throwing in bits of The Living Daylights (and using the same locations too). The trouble is Damon won't work without Greengrass and Greengrass won't work with Gilroy...

I thought Legacy was as good as you could expect a contractual placeholder to be. It did at least try to move things forward rather than just rehashing, but it's still a film that no-one would have made if the studio's contract with the Ludlum estate didn't specify they had to make a new film every so many years and Damon wasn't making very loud noises about only making another Bourne film at another studio after Greengrass reneged on his agreement to make a fourth film after Green Zone (the only reason Universal backed it) in a tantrum over the studio developing two separate scripts.


"Security - release the badgers."

How would you feel about a complete reboot where they get a different actor as jason bourne and a different director and writing team?

It'll probably end up happening, but as the sequels have showed there's really not much you can do with him once he's got his memory back. He's a very self-centred character whose only motivation is to be left alone, so it's not as if he'll willingly set out to right any wrongs, which just leaves him stuck in a merry-go-round of "Just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in" where he uncovers exactly the same conspiracy by exactly the same people and doesn't really do that much other than take down another minor executive after evading the latest entry's guest assassin. It's a bit like when the Bond films just kept on remaking You Only Live Twice in different locations because they couldn't think of anything else to do: there's only so many times you can make it seem fresh.


"Security - release the badgers."