This article contains spoilers for The Forever Purge.
The Purge franchise has been astonishingly successful since the series — which now incorporates five movies and two seasons of TV — launched in 2013 with the eponymous first movie. As of this writing, the saga has racked up $460 million in worldwide box office receipts, against a combined budget for all five films of a reported $53 million.
That’s a damn good return on investment, especially for an R-rated, graphically violent, politically charged, and often bleak narrative. So it was somewhat unexpected when Purge creator James DeMonaco — who has written all five films and directed the first three — hinted to EW in 2018 that the fifth entry in the franchise would likely be the last.
But now, it seems, DeMonaco’s remarks might have been a little premature. Den of Geek asked Blumhouse Productions president Jason Blum, producer of the entire series, if this was indeed the end of the line,...
The Purge franchise has been astonishingly successful since the series — which now incorporates five movies and two seasons of TV — launched in 2013 with the eponymous first movie. As of this writing, the saga has racked up $460 million in worldwide box office receipts, against a combined budget for all five films of a reported $53 million.
That’s a damn good return on investment, especially for an R-rated, graphically violent, politically charged, and often bleak narrative. So it was somewhat unexpected when Purge creator James DeMonaco — who has written all five films and directed the first three — hinted to EW in 2018 that the fifth entry in the franchise would likely be the last.
But now, it seems, DeMonaco’s remarks might have been a little premature. Den of Geek asked Blumhouse Productions president Jason Blum, producer of the entire series, if this was indeed the end of the line,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
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