Author: Ben Travers / Source: IndieWire
Producers on the “Purge” Comic-Con panel also promised the USA Network series isn’t being toned down for cable.
“The First Purge” is the lowest-grossing entry in the “Purge” franchise, but not for long. With nearly $60 million in box office earnings after three weekends in release, the fourth film of the series should surpass the original and could creep up with “Anarchy” ($71 million, domestically) and “Election Year” ($79 million) when it’s all said and done.
Given it was made on a $13 million budget, the film is already a massive success — just like the rest. So why is the franchise shifting to television?
“It’s kind of unprecedented for a film franchise at its peak — each entry [of the first three] has made more than the last one — to go to TV,” Jason Blum said during the show’s Comic-Con panel. “It’s really an indication that the line between TV and movies is blurry on the business side, but on the creative side […] the TV series let us explore [this world] more than the movies.”
Blum has been a long-time advocate for television. He won an Emmy for his work on “The Jinx,” and recently told IndieWire why showrunners were the people he most coveted to direct Blumhouse movies. On the panel, he said the opportunities in television were…
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