Presuming they keep the budget under $140 million, this should be an easy win for all parties, especially if Avengers 4 really is the last we see of Downey Jr.’s other iconic franchise character.In 2014, Susan Downey said, "Yeah. Sherlock Holmes 3 will open courtesy of Warner Bros. Aside from the overall durability of the Sherlock Holmes property and the fact that the first two films were well-liked and successful, Sherlock Holmes 3 will again get to play in a sandbox that is now essentially its own. Reilly) may turn into a huge new comedy franchise this Christmas, but we’ll cross that bridge when the time comes. Of course, Sony’s Holmes and Watson (starring Will Ferrell and John C. 25, 2020, it won’t have Cumberbatch, Miller or even Hugh Laurie fighting for attention. Sherlock is essentially finished and I’d be pleasantly surprised if this sixth season of the Jonny Lee Miller/Lucy Liu crime drama isn’t its last. In 2009, the only major competition was Fox’s long-running House, M.D. And had we gotten a Sherlock Holmes 3 a little sooner, it would have had to contend both with Sherlock and CBS’s wonderful (and truly underrated) Elementary as just one Sherlock Holmes adaptation in play.
By the time A Game of Shadows opened two years later, Benedict Cumberbatch had cemented himself as the defining onscreen Sherlock Holmes via the BBC Masterpiece Theater episodic that premiered in July of 2010.
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of 2009, it was Robert Downey Jr.’s first big post- Iron Man franchise vehicle and unique unto itself as a modern update on the Sir. And this time, it’ll again be the only game in town. And even if Sherlock Holmes 3 won’t be the key attraction of the Christmas season, it can certainly be the Jumanji to Avatar’s Last Jedi in two years’ time. 18, 2020 release date, well, we’ll be getting a Sherlock Holmes vs. And if James Cameron finishes Avatar 2 in time to make that Dec. Sure, the numbers may be down thanks to the nine-year gap between installments, as well as the whole “fewer adults go to adult movies than they used to” thing that will presumably only get worse between now and Christmas Day 2020. No, WB and Village Roadshow are working to make a threequel because they were ridiculously profitable ventures.
hasn't been trying to make a third film for the last seven years because they were relatively good popcorn entertainments. The sequel's first and last reels (the prologue and the finale), along with any sequences where Harris and Downey squared off, were pretty terrific. But Jared Harris made a fantastic Moriarty.
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The Holmes/Watson chemistry was a bit soured as the movie threatened to enter "I wish Holmes would just leave Watson the heck alone" territory. darn well deserved that "Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical" Golden Globe.Ī Game of Shadows, released in 2011, was a more frantic and less enjoyable effort. The 2009 blockbuster was very much a character-driven Holmes mystery, and I will argue that Downey Jr. to the Extreme!!!," but they were mostly actual Holmes stories with a bit more action and spectacle. The two-film saga may have been somewhat sold as "Sherlock Holmes. There is obvious worth in the kind of films that can top half-a-billion dollars worldwide without costing well over $150 million to produce. doesn't want to put all of its eggs in the DC Films/LEGO/Harry Potter baskets, and The Conjuring, Kong: Skull Island and Ready Player One represent successes outside of those brands. Star power mattered and not every literary property could be turned into an action franchise, but these were successful movies, all the better for avoiding an origin story. But 1.5 years later, Sherlock Holmes (obviously fueled by the success of Iron Man) snags $524m on a $90m budget and everyone just nods their head and continues on their way. To wit, Iron Man earns $585 million worldwide on a $140m budget in the summer of 2008 and a franchise/new way-of-life is born. I always found it odd that the franchise got so little respect, even if I admit that I like the sequel a bit more than most people do. It is a prime example of pulling in blockbuster franchise bucks with comparatively modest budgets, which is why I'd argue that it's so valuable. And the $125m budgeted sequel made $545m worldwide. The film legged it to $186m, a better multiplier than the first film if obviously a lower domestic gross. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opened two years later with $39m. Sherlock Holmes snagged the fifth-biggest opening weekend ($62 million) for a movie that didn't top the weekend box office and became the fifth-biggest domestic grosser for a film that never topped the box office. The Village Roadshow/WB Sherlock Holmes franchise is one of those properties that is (financially) underrated.
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