G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will hit DVD and Blu-ray on November 3, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment has announced.
In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra the G.I.Joe team travels the world from the Egyptian desert to the polar ice caps and the streets of Paris in a high stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international organization threatening to use a technology that could bring the world to its knees. Armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons the G.I. Joe’s are the world’s last line of defense.
The popular Stephen Sommers directed flick, which grossed almost $300M worldwide at the box office, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray as a two-disc set and also as a single disc DVD.
Megan Fox helped 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' lead the pack of films that broke the US Summer Box Office record
Though the figures aren’t final, the record for the highest Box Office summer in US history has now been broken.
The record was last broken in 2007 with $4.16 billion, but now 2009 has surpassed that figure with $4.17 billion. It is expected that the final official figure will be around $4.18M.
Genre films were the clear bread winners. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen led the way with $399.4M. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came in second with $294.3M. Star Trek ran fifth with $256.7M, X-Men Origins: Wolverine ran seventh with $179M, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’s $132.M is expected to pass Angels and Demons ($133.4M) to sneak into the top list once the final figures are in.
District 9’s director Neill Blomkamp recently said he’d love to make a sequel if the film was successful, jokingly throwing District 10 out there. Perhaps we just moved one step closer to that sequel after District 9 topped the US box office with $37M in its opening weekend.
District 9, The Time Traveler's Wife, and G.I.Joe top the box office
There is always the question about how the term “sci-fi” alienates potential viewers. In television circles networks are often cautious about how they promote sci-fi series for this very reason. Think the lack of genre identification in the early days of marketing Lost and more recently Defying Gravity.
So, as a sci-fi fan, it’s hard not to be happy when the top three domestic box office films of the moment are all of the sci-fi genre. On Friday District 9 took no.1 spot with $14.2M, The Time Traveler’s Wife came no. 2 with $7.7M, and third was G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with $7.2M.
Taking it a step further, two of the top 5 domestic box office film’s of 2009 are also sci-fi (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is no. 1 with $395M and Star Trek is no. 5 with $255M).
After surpassing box office expectations over the weekend with a whopping $100M worldwide haul, Paramount has confirmed G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will get a sequel.
The studio’s vice chairman, Rob Moore, also confirmed that the lead actors in the film are contractually obligated to return for the sequel, although apparently director Stephen Sommers is under no such obligation.
No further details are to hand.
Interesting tidbit: Internationally G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra out-performed Star Trek in its opening weekend. Star Trek raked in about $35M whilst G.I. Joe scored $44M.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has stolen the number one weekend box office spot and set a couple of records after pulling in roughly $100.2M worldwide ($56.2M in the US and an estimated $44M internationally).
This places G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as the 66th highest opening weekend grosser of all time in the US based on early figures. Once the final figures are in, it could also end up in the top 50 openers worldwide of all time.
The Stephen Sommers directed action flick also broke the box office record for the highest US domestic opening day for a non-sequel in the month of August ($22.3M).
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has posted the highest US domestic opening (by a non-sequel movie) for the month of August in history.
Paramount’s non-stop action flick, directed by Stephen Sommers, hauled in $22.3M on its opening day.
It is estimated the film will approach $60M by the end of its opening weekend, which should place it in the top 3 August openers of all time. The Bourne Ultimatum sits at no.1 with $69.3M and Rush Hour 2 is at no.2 with $67.4M.
