Finally, kaiju and Guillermo del Toro fans can breathe easy: Pacific Rim 2 has officially been greenlit. While the film underperformed domestically, its amazing international numbers helped push it over the $400m threshold, paving an easier path towards a sequel. Last October, it was confirmed that del Toro and screenwriter Tom Beachman were working on a […]
Guillermo del Toro, Tom Beachman are writing Pacific Rim 2
Pacific Rim has had a bumpy few months since its release in July. While the film made $100m in domestic sales, it didn’t exactly make the amount that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures wanted out of a big budget summer film. However, thanks to the film’s huge popularity overseas bringing the total revenue over $400m, […]
[RH Review] Pacific Rim
Kaiju films are kind of a niche genre. While everybody has a passing acknowledgment of Godzilla films and the like, they’re not as immediately accepted in mainstream culture. Sure, there are cult followings and small subcultures that embrace and adore the inherent geekiness of watching a man dressed in a latex monster suit trample across a model […]
[Trailer 3] Pacific Rim + Gallery
This latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s mecha epic, Pacific Rim, downplays the action found in the last trailer. Instead, Idris Elba’s (Thor) character, the commanding officer Stacker Pentecost, delivers a speech to his team that serves as a framing device for the trailer. We’ve all seen it in a multitude of trailers: an optimistic, […]
[Trailer 2] Pacific Rim
Following the WonderCon trailer for Pacific Rim is this first official trailer for the film. Featuring so much new footage, the new trailer includes some back story to how the kaiju appeared and why the Jaegers were built to combat them. Fortunately, not too much of the story is spoiled in this trailer; balanced into the […]