{"id":30683,"date":"2013-08-13T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=30683"},"modified":"2013-08-13T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:36:48","slug":"world-war-z-has-now-grossed-500-million-at-the-global-box-office-media-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=30683","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WORLD WAR Z&#8221; HAS NOW GROSSED $500 MILLION AT THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE &#8211; Media Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTg0NTgxMjIxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM0MDY1OQ@@._V1_SX214_.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WORLD WAR Z&#8221; BECOMES BRAD PITT\u2019S HIGHEST GROSSING WORLDWIDE RELEASE AND HIS BIGGEST EVER DOMESTIC GROSSING FILM OF ALL TIME<\/p>\n<p>THE HIT MOVIE HAS NOW GROSSED $500 MILLION AT THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE<\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD, CA \u2013 (August 11, 2013) \u2013 Brad Pitt&#8217;s \u201cWORLD WAR Z\u201d has now earned over $500 million at worldwide box office, making it the actor\u2019s highest grossing worldwide release, surpassing the star\u2019s \u201cTROY\u201d which grossed $497.3 million globally.<\/p>\n<p>After setting a personal best with a $66 million opening on June 21, \u201cWORLD WAR Z\u201d has gone on to total $197.4 million in the U.S.  The film delivered Pitt\u2019s highest grossing domestic release of all time (besting \u201cMR. &#038; MRS. SMITH\u2019s\u201d total domestic gross of $186.3 million), and the biggest opening weekend of his career (beating \u201cSMITH\u2019s\u201d $50.3 million opener). The film has earned $305.2 million at the international box office, to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWORLD WAR Z\u201d revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.  The film stars Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production present, in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films, a Plan B Entertainment\/2DUX2 Production \u201cWORLD WAR Z,\u201d directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard &#038; Damon Lindelof, and screen story by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski.  Based on the novel by Max Brooks.  Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Ian Bryce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Paramount Pictures Media Release<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WORLD WAR Z&#8221; BECOMES BRAD PITT\u2019S HIGHEST GROSSING WORLDWIDE RELEASE AND HIS BIGGEST EVER DOMESTIC GROSSING FILM OF ALL TIME THE HIT MOVIE HAS NOW GROSSED $500 MILLION AT THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE HOLLYWOOD, CA \u2013 (August 11, 2013) \u2013 Brad Pitt&#8217;s \u201cWORLD WAR Z\u201d has now earned over $500 million at worldwide box office,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=30683\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movietv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30684,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions\/30684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}