San Andreas opened in North America across 3,777 theaters including a total of 3,200 3D locations.[48] Several days prior to the film's release various box office pundits were predicting a $40 million or more opening in North America.[3][49] It made $3.1 million from Thursday night showings[50] and $18.2 million on its opening day.[51][52] It earned $54.5 million in its opening weekend which was well above the tracking and predictions.[53][54] It was Johnson's biggest opening as a lead actor, surpassing the $36 million debut of his The Scorpion King in 2002 even after adjusting for inflation.[55] Warner Bros. distribution chief Dan Fellman commented about the successful opening, saying that audiences never get tired of disaster films, even going back to The Poseidon Adventure (1972). He added, "What also gets tiring is when you start to do sequels of the same thing. It needs to be fresh, and you have to have the right chemistry in the cast", pointing out the originality of the film, and the performances of Johnson and the other cast, as some of the factors behind the film's successful opening.[54] In its second weekend, it experienced a drop of 52% earning an estimated $26.4 million, falling in second place (behind Spy), but experiencing a smaller fall than that of other disaster movies.[56]

Writing in Variety, Andrew Barker wrote, "Of the many charges that can be levied against Brad Peyton's San Andreas, false advertising is not one of them. The disaster pic promises nothing more than the complete CGI destruction of California as foregrounded by Dwayne Johnson's jackfruit-sized biceps, and it delivers exactly that".[73] Andrew O'Hehir wrote in Salon, "Considered as pure spectacle, San Andreas is gripping and effective, as well as a somewhat interesting form of counter-narrative: A vision of near-term apocalypse that has nothing to do with climate change, monsters or alien invaders".[74] Entertainment Weekly's critic Chris Nashawaty wrote, "As patently preposterous, scientifically dubious, and unapologetically corny as director Brad Peyton's orgy of CGI devastation is, its popcorn prophecy of the inevitable is a blast of giddy, disposable fun".[75] Mick LaSalle wrote in The San Francisco Chronicle, "Some movies are easy to mock, but hard to resist. This is one of them".[76]


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"As a seismologist and director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, and a fan of really good movies, my hope is Dwayne Johnson, the actor known as 'The Rock' delivers a good blockbuster hit that does not resemble Hollywood's 2003 science fiction flop 'The Core' in any way, shape or form," Kent said. "After watching the movie, I'd say it has great potential, but as a seismologist, I try to stay away from most predictions."

The movie is a major success, with praise going to the performances and the visual effects and criticism to the screenplay. But it fits well with other disaster movies on its wake. Here are just several to check out with the same intensity as San Andreas.

Finally, the Roland Emmerich disaster movie to end all Roland Emmerich disaster movies, 2012 revolves on the Mayan calendar superstition that pronounces that the world will end on winter solstice, 21st of December 2012. Though, its focus is on novelist-turned-limousine driver Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) escaping earthquake-ridden LA and finding refuge on huge evacuation arks.

Paolo Alfar is a freelance writer, based in Manila, Philippines. His passion for films is accidental when he designed a movie theater during his childhood. From there, his fondness for movies grew. And the Leo DiCaprio epic "Blood Diamond" somehow kicked off that passion.Follow him on Letterboxd at Paolo_the_TPS.

The scale of disaster in San Andreas is proving lucrative even in the areas it destroys. A surprising 19 of the movies' 20 top-grossing opening weekend theaters were in San Francisco and L.A., according to the Wall Street Journal.

Since 1997's Titanic proved there were Oscars (11 in total) and dollars (over $2.1 billion) in destruction, filmmakers have been exploiting the genre. In 1998 alone, three hit disaster movies - Armageddon, Deep Impact and Godzilla - grossed a combined $1.2 billion. But in the wake of 9/11, few destruction films succeeded: The 2002 Harrison Ford submarine flick K-19: The Widowmaker bellyflopped to just $60.5 million at the box office and other apocalyptic fare focused instead on alien invasions (2002's Signs grossed $408 million globally). The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, was the first out-and-out disaster hit since 2000's The Perfect Storm; it grossed $544 million to the latter's $328 million. Then there was the one-off 2012, which grossed $769 million in 2009.

Hollywood has recently begun regularly dabbling in disaster once more: 2013's This Is the End, 2014's Godzilla, and even World War Z all performed well. San Andreas' success assures that there will be many more destruction movies on the way - and certainly some from Peyton.

"People go to the movies because they want to feel pure emotions, whether its excitement or fear or sadness or happiness," concluded Peyton, who has signed on to direct Journey 3: From the Earth to the Moon. "People love being scared in safe environment - disaster movies scare you in a safe movie theater and in a way no other genre can."

Disaster movies in which entire cities are leveled by the fury of nature have become a tradition in Hollywood. The latest of these, "San Andreas," was released Friday and topped the box office with a solid $54.6 million opening weekend. be457b7860

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