WWE Studios: Ranking Its Movies so Far from Best to Worst
The massive success of its low budget serial-killer thriller The Call must have been welcome news to WWE Studios.
The movie, which stars Halle Berry and current wrestling star David Otunga, rocketed to No. 2 on the U.S. box office charts last week, widely surpassing industry expectations and becoming the biggest WWE Studios film ever at the box office (numbers via Box Office Mojo).
No doubt Michael Luisi, the president of WWE Studios, was doing cartwheels in the halls of Titan Towers last weekend when the results came in.
2007's The Condemned is a pleasant surprise. An action-packed extravaganza that makes the most of Steve Austin's charisma, it's one of the best movies WWE has ever been involved with.
The film has a very simple concept: A group of highly dangerous death row inmates from all over the world, including Austin, are kidnapped by a crazed billionaire and dropped onto an exotic island in the middle of nowhere. They are then instructed to fight one another to the death for the entertainment of a global Internet audience.
Think of it as a nastier, more brutal version of The Hunger Games. Both also borrow heavily from Japanese cult classic Battle Royale.
Sadly, The Condemned didn't exactly do the same numbers at
As The Hollywood Reporter noted last week, The Call may have also returned Berry, whose career had been in a lull prior to the film's release, to prominence.
An all-round success, The Call undoubtedly deserves the top spot for best WWE Studios movie for single-handedly turning around the ailing film division and establishing it as a credible name in Hollywood.
The massive success of its low budget serial-killer thriller The Call must have been welcome news to WWE Studios.
The movie, which stars Halle Berry and current wrestling star David Otunga, rocketed to No. 2 on the U.S. box office charts last week, widely surpassing industry expectations and becoming the biggest WWE Studios film ever at the box office (numbers via Box Office Mojo).
No doubt Michael Luisi, the president of WWE Studios, was doing cartwheels in the halls of Titan Towers last weekend when the results came in.
2007's The Condemned is a pleasant surprise. An action-packed extravaganza that makes the most of Steve Austin's charisma, it's one of the best movies WWE has ever been involved with.
The film has a very simple concept: A group of highly dangerous death row inmates from all over the world, including Austin, are kidnapped by a crazed billionaire and dropped onto an exotic island in the middle of nowhere. They are then instructed to fight one another to the death for the entertainment of a global Internet audience.
Think of it as a nastier, more brutal version of The Hunger Games. Both also borrow heavily from Japanese cult classic Battle Royale.
Sadly, The Condemned didn't exactly do the same numbers at
As The Hollywood Reporter noted last week, The Call may have also returned Berry, whose career had been in a lull prior to the film's release, to prominence.
An all-round success, The Call undoubtedly deserves the top spot for best WWE Studios movie for single-handedly turning around the ailing film division and establishing it as a credible name in Hollywood.
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