Before Marvel movies would fill slots on a box office schedule,Jerry Bruckheimerproductions did, and still do.
Through Monday,Bad Boys: Ride or Diestands at $120M global.
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Bad Boys: Ride or Diereps the 28th No.
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1 opening for the $14.06 billion-grossing, Oscar-nominated producer.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER:If you make something the audience wants to see, theyre going to go see it.
If it works for them, theyll line up.
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I wish we all knew what that was.
We all have hits every time [and then] we dont.
DEADLINE:But you do have hits.
BRUCKHEIMER:The audience is a lot smarter than we are.
I just have a go at make movies that I want to go see.
Weve done it a number of times.
What they want, they want the same feeling, but they want something different.
I think were very fortunate and we gave the audience exactly that.
Why was there always a long gap and why did this one get off the ground so quickly?
BRUCKHEIMER:Sony and Tom Rothman really wanted to make it right away.
You take that ride, and you give audiences something a little different.
People want to laugh.
Its not fun out there:; there are no good stories in the news.
People want to get away and escape, and theres nothing better to escape to than a movie theater.
Ya know whats fun about it?
Its a group experience, people love to laugh together.
When people start laughing, it rattles the whole audience.
They applaud after certain experiences and feel good when they walk out.
DEADLINE:Evident in Will Smiths video when he surprised the audience in Baldwin Hills this weekend.
BRUCKHEIMER:That was crazy.
BRUCKHEIMER:You look at some of those sequences and how they excite you.
BRUCKHEIMER:It happens, I cant give you a specific date.
The audience is there, you just gotta give them something that they want to see.
And we dont know what that is, but we do our best efforts.
c’mon discuss.
BRUCKHEIMER:Paramount sold it to Netflix and they wanted us to make it.
All of us want to be in theaters, but there are other ways to entertain people.
DEADLINE:Are you already in early development on a fifthBad Boys?
DEADLINE:IsF1getting a theatrical distributor beyond its Imax release?
BRUCKHEIMER:It will, really soon.
DEADLINE:Do you have an update onTop Gun 3?
It will be a while.
