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e e e e e e e e San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad pton and written by Carlton cuse with Andre fabrisio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit the film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role with Carla gjino Alexandra daerio ion Gruff Archie Panjabi and Paul jamat it plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault devastating the west coast of the United States principal photography of the film started on April 22nd 2014 in Queensland Australia and wrapped up on July 28th in San Francisco the film premiered in Hollywood Los Angeles on May 26th 2015 and was released in the United States on May 29th it received mixed reviews from critics praising the visual effects of Johnson and Gino's performances but criticizing the plot and characters the film grossed $474 million worldwide Caltech seismologist Dr Lawrence Hayes and his colleague Dr Kim Park are at Hoover Dam testing a new earthquake prediction model when a nearby and previously unknown fault ruptures triggering a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that collapses the Dam Park sacrifices himself to save a young girl and gets Swept Away by the water Hayes discovers that the entire San Andreas fault is Shifting and will soon cause several massive earthquakes potentially destroying cities along the fault line he begins racing to warn the population of California along with his students Alexi and Phoebe and reporter Serena Johnson when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastates Los Angeles and San Francisco Ray gains a chief rescue helicopter pilot of the laugh who was going through a divorce from his wife Emma finds himself rescuing her from a skyscraper in Los Angeles meanwhile their daughter Blake has been visiting San Francisco with Emma's new boyfriend Daniel at that moment an earthquake strikes the city rubble from the collapsing parking garage pins her in Daniel's car Daniel leaves Blake to find help for her but then panics and ultimately abandons her in an act of cowardice Ben Taylor a British engineer seeking employment at Daniel's firm and Ben's younger brother Ali rescue Blake and they reached Chinatown successfully calling her parents for help Ray and Emma attempt to reach San Francisco and raise helicopter Until It suffers a gearbox failure forcing them to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in backersfield amid the chaos of looting Ray steals a truck to continue the journey the pair encounters a couple broken down on the side of the road shortly before the San Andrea's fault which has torn a large fisure through the highway and extends for the perceivable length of the Fall in either direction Ray and Emma exchanged the truck for an airplane the couple owns as Blake Ben and Ali attempt to reach Knob Hill to Signal the pair after finding their previous meeting point at koit Tower engulfed in flames Ray and Emma parachute into at and te Park just before a 9.6 magnitude Quake hits becoming the largest recorded earthquake in history as the Quake subsides having destroyed much of the city Ray and Emma commandeer a boat to reach the group only only to realize a tsunami is approaching San Francisco Bay alongside a handful of other survivors in small ships the two cross the wave before it crests barely avoiding a container ship caught up in the tsunami wave the ship crashes into the Golden Gate bridges Center span killing everyone on the bridge including Daniel who gets crushed by a falling shipping container this tsunami strikes the ruined City capsizing a cruise ship and killing thousands more Blake Ben and Ali and to the gate a building whose construction Daniel had been overseen but are still caught by the wave as the building begins to collapse trapping Blake underwater Ray Dives in rescues her and performs CPR Emma crashes the boat through a window and drives the five of them out of the collapsing building as Ry resuscitates Blake the survivors regroup at a relief camp on the other side of the bay where the reconciled Ray and Emma talk about their future on the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge an American flag unfolds giving hope that the city will recover and rebuild as rescue vehicles descend on the destroyed landscape of the San Francisco Bay area which now extends from San Jose to Santa Cruz turning the San Francisco Peninsula into an island on December 1st 2011 it was announced that new line Cinema was developing an earthquake disaster film San Andreas 3D from a script by Jeremy Passmore and Andre fabrio 25 Allen lobe polished the script on June 5th 2012 the studio set Brad Payton to direct the film six on July 18th 2012 new line tapped Carlton cuse to rewrite the script for the earthquake disaster film seven on July 18th 2013 The Conjuring writers Carrie Hayes and Chad Hayes were tapped by the studio to rewrite the film again at the film was also produced by new line and Village Road show pictures along with Flynn Picture company and Australian limited Village Road Show nine casting on October 14th 2013 Dwayne Johnson closed a deal to star in the film playing the role of a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter after an earthquake 10 on February 4th 2014 Alexander Dario joined the cast 11 on March 12th 2014 Carla Gugino joined the cast reuniting with Dwayne Johnson with whom she starred in Race to Witch Mountain and faster 12 on March 14th 2014 Game of Thrones actor art Parkinson joined the film's cast 13 on April 1st 2014 Archie Panjabi joined the earthquake film 14 on April 5th 2014 Todd Williams also joined the film to play Marcus crawlings an old army friend of Johnson's character 15 on April 15th 2014 Colton Haynes was added to the cast of the film 16 on April 29th I own Gruff joined the cast of the film Gruff played Daniel reic a wealthy real estate developer who is dating Johnson's character's estranged wife 17 on May 28th Will Young Lee join the cast to play Dr Kim Park the co-director of the Caltech seismology lab in the film 18 on June 11th Australian singer and actress Kylie Mena joined the film to play grod's sister 19 filming second unit filming on Queen Street in Brisbane Queensland Australia on June 22nd 2014 on December 17th 2013 variety reported that the film would be shot at Village Road Show studios in Gold Coast Queensland Australia N9 the production was set to start in April 2014 in Queensland with locations including ipswitch various Suburban locations across the Gold Coast in Brisbane wedding 20 on March 20th 2014 it was announced that gods of Egypt had started production in Australia and San Andreas was set to begin soon after 21 on April 16th 14 Johnson tweeted photos from the training for the film 2223 filming began on April 22nd 2014 in Australia and was also shot in the Los Angeles area backersfield in San Francisco 24025 on May 12th shooting took place in the locky valley 26 on May 10th 11 shooting was taking place in Los Angeles and then production went back to Australia to complete the rest of shooting 27 on May 17 second unit unit was filming scenes in Bakersfield where a helicopter was spotted while Johnson was busy in Gold Coast 28 on June 22nd the crew was spotted filming disaster scenes on Elizabeth Street in Brisbane 29 filming outside at in tea Park the film's second unit started shooting on July 8th in San Francisco while the first unit began shooting on July 21st wrapping up on July 27th 30 on July 15 16 first unit was filming at Fisherman's Warf while a second unit was also filming on the Embarcadero on July 16th 31 on July 21st the filming was taking place at AT and T Park where the crew shot a scene during a San Francisco Giants game 32 on July 22nd they filmed an earthquake with fake victims and fake garbage at hide and Lombard streets on Russian Hill 33 on July 23rd Crews were filming disaster scenes in the Armory 3 4 on July 26th they filmed some scenes near the Fairmont Hotel with the last day of filming spent shooting on the California Street in the financial district 35 wrapping up filming on July 27th 2014 visual effects the visual effects are provided by hydr cocy and image engine and supervised by Greg and Colin straws holder Voss and Martin kulpit with help from scan line bfx and Method Studios 36 music on July 24th 2014 it was announced that Andrew lockington would be composing the music for the film 37 Three teasers were revealed and two of them include robot and delh Def France and just singing California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas San Andreas premiered on May 26 2015 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles 40 it was initially scheduled for a 2D and 3D release on June 5th 2015 41 but was later moved up a week 42 San Andreas was also released in Dolby Vision making it Warner Bros pictures first film to adopt the format 43 home media San Andreas was released as a digital download and on Blu-ray and DVD on October 13 2015 44 upon its first week of release on home media in the US the film topped the neelon vide skin First Alert chart which tracks overall disc sales and debuted number two at the Blu-ray disc sales chart with 40% of unit sales coming from Blu-ray a surprisingly low ratio given the films over the top special effects it was blocked by the diamond edition Blu-ray disc edition of the 1992 Disney animated classic Aladdin 45 as of 2016 it is available in 4k oud Blu-ray San Andreas grossed $15.1 million in the United States and Canada and 319 .4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $474.58 18.7 million accounting for production budgets marketing talent participations and other costs box office grosses and home media revenues placed at 18th on their list of 2015 most valuable Blockbusters 47 since its release the film Remains the highest grossing liveaction Hollywood original film of the past 7 years as of July 2022 48 North America San Andreas opened in North America across 3,777 theaters including a total of 323d locations 49 several days prior to the film's release various box office pundits were predicting a 40 million or more opening in North America 350 it made $3.1 million from Thursday night showings 51 and $18.2 million on its opening day 52253 had earned $54.5 million in its opening weekend which was well above the tracking and predictions 54 and 55 it was Johnson's biggest opening as a lead actor surpassing the $36 million debut of his The Scorpion King in 22 even after adjusting for inflation 56 Warner Bros distribution Chief Dan Felman 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 55 in its second weekend it experienced a drop of 50 2% earning an estimated $26.4 million falling in second place behind spy but experiencing a smaller fall than that of other disaster movies 57 outside North America outside North America the film opened in a total of 60 countries in the same weekend including France the United Kingdom Mexico and Australia 58 it open Wednesday May 27th in four countries added 38 countries on thir URS and 18 more countries on Friday May 2959 and through Sunday May 31st earned a 5-day opening weekend total of $ 63.9 million from 15420 screens in 60 countries debuting at first place in 55 of those countries as well as at the international box office 60 in its second weekend it added $ 97.7 million 61 at top the box office outside of North America for two consecutive weekends before being overtaken by Jurassic world in its third weekend 61 it had the biggest opening for a disaster movie and second biggest for Warner Bros in Mexico with $10.1 million from 3a1 100 screens 60 in China it had a 3-day opening weekend of $35 million 62 and 6-day opening total of$ 51.8 million from 8,795 screens 61 although Chinese box office analysts and group reported a $55 million opening 63 despite health concerns over the MS virus 64 which resulted in the plunge of theater admissions 65 the film opened to $7.2 million in South Korea including Wednesday sneaks and top the box office 6A 166 it had similar successful openings in the UK Ireland and Malta 7.2 million Russia and the CIS $5.3 million Brazil 33.2 million France $3.1 million India $2.5 million Australia $2.4 million Hong Kong $2.2 million and Germany $2 million 661 it became Warner Bros highest grossing film of all time in Mexico chile Colombia Peru and Venezuela and in China it is the fourth highest 6 768 as of June 28th 2015 in total earnings its largest market outside of North America are China $13.2 million and Mexico $28.4 million 69 critical response on Rotten Tomatoes a review aggregator the film has an approval rating of 48% based on 252 reviews and an average rating of five 210 the website's critical consensus reads San Andreas has a great cast and outstanding special effects but amidst all the senses shattering destruction the movie characters and plot prove less than structurally sound 70 on Metacritic the film has a score of 43 out of 100 based on 42 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 71 audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of a on an A plus to f scale 72 an awarded at a score of 7.5 out of 10 saying there are some cracks in the foundation but San Andreas is solid popcorn Fair thanks to Sharp visuals and The Rock 73 writing in variety Andrew Barker wrote of the many charges that can be levied against Brad Payton San Andreas false advertising is not one of them the disaster pick promises nothing more than the complete CGI destruction of California as foregrounded by Dwayne Johnson's jack fruit size biceps and it delivers exactly that 74 Andrew oer wrote In Salon considered as pure spectacle San Andreas is Gripp and effective as well as a somewhat interesting form of counternarrative a vision of near-term Apocalypse that has nothing to do with climate change monsters or Alien Invaders 75 entertainment Weekly's critic Chris nashy wrote as patently Preposterous scientifically dubious and unapologetically corny as director Brad Payton's orgy of CGI Devastation is its popcorn Prophecy of the inevitable is a blast of giddy disposable fun 76 MC laal wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle some movies are easy to mock but hard to resist this is one of them 77 the American geosciences institute's Earth magazine called the film Dreadful and criticized it for perpetuating geologic absurdities also pointing out that despite the notoriety of the San Andreas fault it is not the greatest seismic threat to the Bay Area with a nearby Hayward fault having the potential to cause immense damage to Bridges roads utility and Communications with a smaller magnitude Quake due to its proximity to areas of dense Urban population while a full rupture along the Cascadia subduction zone would be the worst disaster of US History 78 a rupture along the Hayward fault would affect a much smaller area where the impact on the urban infrastructure could be mitigated by retrofitting enforcement of seismic building codes and other preparedness measures 79 accolades at the 2015 Teen Choice Award San Andreas was nominated for Choice movie action didario and Johnson received a nomination for Choice movie actress action and choice Summer movie star May respectively 88 garnered nominations for outstanding visual effects in a photoal feature outstanding effect simulations in a photoal feature earned to an outstanding compositing in a feature motion picture at the 14th visual effects Society Awards 81 Johnson was nominated for best action performance and best hero at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards in February 2016 new line announced a sequel is in development and its plot will reportedly focus on the ring of fire Neil Weidner and Gavin James were hired as screenwriters while Brad pton and Bo Flynn will return as director and producer respectively Johnson is said to reprise his role while Gino didario and jamad are expected to return as well Johnson and pton were announced to serve serve as producers a 384 in July 2021 didario expressed her doubts that a sequel was happening 85 in November 2021 Johnson announced that they are still developing the sequel while stating that scheduling conflicts are why the production has not started yet 86 he elaborated that his Studio looks for projects that have what they internally call the Moses effect explaining that this means that they take immediate precedence over the rest of the many projects on their film slate stating that he feels like the sequel falls into this category 87 in December 2021 ham Garcia confirmed that Warner Bros pictures wants a sequel while seven bucks Productions delayed development in favor of other projects Dwayne Douglas Johnson born May 2nd 1972 also known by his ring name the rock is an American actor professional wrestler and businessman he is signed to WWE where he performs on a part-time bases widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers ever 67 Johnson was integral to the development and success of the World Wrestling Federation WWF now WWE during the Attitude Era he wrestled for the WWF full-time for eight years before pursuing an acting career his films have grossed over $3.5 billion in North America and over 10.5 billion worldwide a making him one of the world's highest grossing and highest pay actors 9101 he is a co-owner of the United Football League 121 e314 a member of the board of directors of TKO group Holdings the parent company of UF WW1 1516 17 and co-founder of seven bucks Productions 18 after accepting an athletic scholarship to play football at the University of Miami Johnson was a member of the 1991 National Championship team but was largely a backup player 19 despite aspirations to professional football he went undrafted in the 1995 NFL draft and briefly signed with the Calgary stamps before being cut in his first season 20 in 1996 his father assisted in helping him secure a contract with the WWF one Johnson quickly Rose to Global prominence aided by a gimmick he employed as a charismatic trash talker Johnson left the WWE in 2004 he returned in 2011 as a part-time performer until 2013 and made sporadic appearances from there on until his retirement in 2019 21 in 2023 he returned once again on a part-time basis a 10-time world champion including the promotions first of African-American descent 22 he is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion a five-time tag team champion the 2A Royal Rumble winner and we6 Triple Crown Champion Johnson headlined multiple pay-per-view events including W's flag sh event WrestleMania 6 times 15 16 17 28 29 and 40 which includes the most bought professional wrestling pay-per-view Wrestlemania 28 and Main evented the most watched episodes of we's Flagship television series Raw and SmackDown 2324 Johnson's first film role was in The Mummy Returns 2001 the next year he played his first leading role in the action fantasy film The Scorpion King he has since starred in family films the game plan 27 Race to Witch Mountain 29 to fairy 2010 Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Jumanji the next level 2019 and jungle cruise 2021 and the action films Journey 2 the Mysterious Island 2012 G Joe retaliation 2013 Hercules 2014 skyscraper 2018 San Andreas 2015 and Rampage 2018 he also starred in the action comedy films gets smart 28 Central Intelligence 2016 Baywatch 2017 and red notice 2021 his role as Luke Hobs in the Fast and Furious films beginning with Fast 5 2011 helped the franchise become one of the highest grossing in film 25 he joined the DC extended Universe by playing the title role in Black adom 2022 26 he is also known for voicing Maui in the Disney animated film Mona 2016 Johnson produced and starred in the HBO Comedy drama a series Ballers 2015 201927 and the autobiographical sitcom young Rock 2021 to 2023 his autobiography The Rock Says was released in 2000 and was a New York Times bestseller 28 29 and 2016 and 2019 time named him as one of the world's most influential people Johnson was born in Hayward California 32 at 33 on May 2nd 1972 34 the son of matu figa ADA fit Manu name mayia 3D 536 and former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson born Way Douglas bowls 3D 738 growing up he briefly lived in greylin in Auckland New Zealand with his mother's family 39 where he played rugby 40 and attended Richmond Road primary school before returning to the US 39 e Johnson attended Montclair Elementary School in Charlotte North Carolina and then moved to hamton Connecticut where he attended Shephard Glenn Elementary School and then hamton Middle School 5556 he attended President William McKinley High School in Honolulu and then glencliffe high school and mavo high school both in Nashville Tennessee and then Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley Reg region of the state where he graduated in 1990 57 at Freedom High School Johnson initially struggled and was drawn into a culture of conflict and petty crime by age 17 he had been arrested several times for fighting theft and check fraud and was suspended two weeks for fighting 58 an article in the local newspaper labeled him a troubled teenager with a history of run-ins with police but Freedom High School football coach Jody C wick saw athletic potential in Johnson and recruited him to join the School's football team where he played defensive tackle an experience that proved to be a significant personal transformation for Johnson my thought process started to change that's when I started thinking about goals and what I wanted to accomplish he has since said about his high school football experience 19 in addition to playing football Johnson also was a member of Freedom High School's track and field and wrestling teams third 7 by his senior year at Freedom High School Johnson had played only two years of football but was offered a full athletic scholarship offered from the University of Miami whose football program was beginning to emerge as one of the nation's top level encod division one teams as he did in high school Johnson continued to play defensive tackle at the University of Miami where he was a member of the Miami Hurricanes 1991 team which won that year's National Championship 59 and 37 despite playing 4 years there however Johnson found himself behind elite players on the depth chart including future NFL star and Pro Football Hall of Fame and ducky Warren Sap and appeared mostly in backup roles 661 in his time at Miami Johnson played in 39 games with one start he recorded 4.5 sacks in 77 tackles 62 in 1995 Johnson graduated with a bachelor of General Studies and a dual major in criminology and Physiology 363 he was also one of the University's most prolific student speakers in the Miami area Community frequently delivering positive messages about his own struggles and encouraging students to remain in school and avoid the dangers of drug use 64 Canadian Football League after graduating Johnson was signed by the Calgary stamps of the Canadian Football League Calgary moved him from the defensive tackle to linebacker he was assigned to Calgary's practice roster but was cut two months into Calgary's 1995 season after being cut by Calgary Johnson began his professional wrestling career the next year in 1996 37 veteran wrestler Pat Patterson secured several tryy out matches for Johnson with the World Wrestling Federation WWF in 1996 wrestling at first under his real name Johnson defeated the Brooklyn Brawler at a house show on March 167 and lost matches to Chris candido and Owen Hart 39 after wrestling at Jerry lawers United States wrestling Association under the name flex cavana and winning the uswa Tag Team Championship twice with his partner Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996 Johnson was signed to a WWF contract he received additional training from Tom Pritchard alongside of Chim albrech and Mark Henry 539 World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Champion 1996 1997 Johnson made his WWF debut as Rocky mavia a combination of his father and grandfather's ring names although announcers acknowledged his real name 68 he was initially reluctant to take this ring name but was persuaded by Vince McMahan and Jim Ross 48 on 69 he was given the nickname the blue chipper and to play up his lineage he was hyped as the w W's first third generation wrestler to a clean cut face character mavia was pushed heavily from the start despite his wrestling in experience he debuted on Monday Night Raw as a member of Mark miro's entourage on November 4th 1996 70 his first match came at Survivor series on November 17th 1996 in an 8-man elimination tag match he was the sole survivor and eliminated the final two members of the opposing team Crush and Goldust 7 1 on February 13th 1997 he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hurst Helmsley on Monday Night Raw 7273 with 74 Mia then successfully defended the title against Helmsley at in your house 13 final four Johnson's first WrestleMania match came at WrestleMania 13 on March 23rd 1997 where he was victorious in his Intercontinental Championship defense against the sultan WWF fans started to reject his character and push from the company 75 he defeated Brett Hart by disqualification in a title defense on the March 31st episode of Raw is war 76 behind the scenes Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF 77 and refused to be booked to take the title from him 78 on April 20th at in your house 14 revenge of the taker he lost his saioa by count out but retained the title audiences became increasingly hostile toward May with chance of die Rocky die and Rocky sucks being heard during his matches 148 after losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28th 1997 episode of Raw is war 79 mavia suffered a legitimate knee injury in a match against Mankind in June 1997 and spent several months recovering one nation of domination 1997 1998 see also nation of Domin ation Upon returning in August 1997 mayia turned heel for the first time in his career by lashing out at fans who had been booing him and joining faru Delo Brown and Kama in the stable called the nation of domination 80 he then refused to acknowledge the rocky mavia name instead referring to himself in the third person as The Rock though he would still be builded as The Rock Rocky mavia until 1998 The Rock would then regularly insult the audience WWF performers and interviewers in his promos 80 at Degeneration X in your house on December 7th 1997 Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad pton and written by Carlton cuse with Andre fabrisio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit the film stars Dwayne Johnson and the lead role with Carla guino Alexander daerio ion Gruff Archie Panjabi and Paul J it plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault devastating the west coast of the United States principal photography of the film started on April 22nd 2014 in Queensland Australia and wrapped up on July 28th in San Francisco the film premiered in Hollywood Los Angeles on May 26th 2015 and was released in the United States on May 29th it received mixed reviews from critics praising the visual effects and Johnson and Gino's performances but criticizing the plot and characters the film grossed $474 million worldwide Caltech seismologist Dr Lawrence Hayes and his colleague Dr Kim Park are at Hoover Dam testing a new earthquake prediction model when a nearby and previously unknown fault ruptures triggering a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that collapses the Dam Park sacrifices himself to save a young girl and gets Swept Away by the water Hayes discovers that the entire San Andrea's fault is Shifting and will soon cause several massive earthquakes potentially destroying cities along the fault line he begins racing to warn the population of California along with his students Alexi and phoe and reporter Serena Johnson when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastates Los Angeles and San Francisco Ray gains a chief rescue helicopter pilot of the laugh who was going through a divorce from his wife Emma finds himself rescuing her from a skyscraper in Los Angeles meanwhile their daughter Blake has been visiting San Francisco with Emma's new boyfriend Daniel at that moment an earthquake strikes the city rubble from the collapsing parking garage pins her in Daniel's car Daniel leaves Blake to find help for her but then panics and ultimately abandons her in an act of cowardice Ben Taylor a British engineer seeking employment at Daniel's firm and Ben's younger brother Ali rescue blade Lake and they reached Chinatown successfully calling her parents for help Ray and Emma attempt to reach San Francisco and raise helicopter Until It suffers a gearbox failure forcing them to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in backersfield amid the chaos of looting Ray steals a truck to continue the journey the pair encounters a couple broken down on the side of the road shortly before the San Andrea's fault which has torn a large fisure through the highway and extends for the perceivable length of the fault in either direction Ray and Emma exchanged the truck for an airplane the couple owns as Blake Ben and Alli attempt to reach Knob Hill to Signal the pair after finding their previous meeting point at koit Tower engulfed in flames Ray and Emma parachute into at and te Park just before a 9.6 magnitude Quake hits becoming the largest recorded earthquake in history as the Quake subsides having destroyed much of the city Ray and Emma commandeer a boat to reach the group only to realize a tsunami is approaching San Francisco Bay alongside a handful of other survivors in small ships the two cross the wave before it crests barely avoiding a container ship caught up in the tsunami wave the ship crashes into the Golden Gate bridges Center span killing everyone on the bridge including Daniel who gets crushed by a falling shipping container the tsunami strikes the ruined City capsizing a cruise ship and killing thousands more Blake Ben and Ali enter the gate a building whose construction Daniel had been overseen but are still caught by the wave as the building begins to collapse trapping Blake underwater Ray Dives in rescues her and performs CPR Emma crashes the boat through a window and drives the five of them out of the collapsing building as Ray resuscitates Blake the survivors regroup at a relief camp on the other side of the bay where the reconciled Ray and Emma talk about their future on the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge an American flag unfolds giving hope that the city will recover and rebuild as rescue vehicles descend on the destroyed landscape of the San Francisco Bay area which now extends from San Jose to Santa Cruz turning the San Francisco Peninsula into an island on December 1st 2011 it was announced that new line Cinema was developing an earthquake disaster film San Andreas 3D from a script by Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabo 25 Allen lobe polished the script on June 5th 2012 the studio set Brad Payton to direct the film six on July 18th 2012 new line tapped Carlton cuse to rewrite the script for the earthquake disaster film s on July 18 2013 The Conjuring writers Carrie Hayes and Chad Hayes were tapped by the studio to rewrite the film again at the film was also produced by new line and Village Road show pictures along with Flynn Picture company and Australian limited Village Road Show nine casting on October 14 2013 Dwayne Johnson closed a deal to star in the film playing the role of a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter after an earthquake 10 on February 4th 2014 Alexander Dario joined the cast 11 on March 12th 2014 Carla Gugino joined the cast reuniting with Dwayne Johnson with whom she starred in Race to Witch Mountain and faster 12 on March 14th 2014 Game of Thrones actor Parkinson joined the film's cast 13 on April 1st 2014 Archie Panjabi joined the earthquake film 14 on April 5th 2014 Todd Williams also joined the film to play Marcus crawlings an old army friend of Johnson's character 15 on April 15 2014 Colton Haynes was added to the cast of the film 16 on April 29th ion Gruff joined the cast of the film Gruff played Daniel reic a wealthy real estate developer who is dating Johnson's character's EST stranged wife 17 on May 28th Will Young Lee join the cast to play Dr Kim Park the co-director of the Caltech seismology lab in the film 18 on June 11th Australian singer and actress Kylie menad joined the film to play grod's sister 19 filming second unit filming on Queen Street in Brisbane Queensland Australia on June 22nd 2014 on December 17th 2013 variety reported that the film would be shot at Village Road Show studios in Gold Coast Queensland Australia 9ine the production was set to start in April 2014 in Queensland with locations including ipswitch various Suburban locations across the Gold Coast in Brisbane wedding 20 on March 20th 2014 it was announced that gods of Egypt had started production in Australia and San Andreas was set to begin soon after 21 on April 16th 2014 Johnson tweeted photos from the training for the film 2223 filming began on April 22nd 2014 in Australia and was also shot in the Los Angeles area backersfield and San Francisco 24025 on May 12th shooting took place in the Loire Valley 26 on May 10 11 shooting was taking place in Los Angeles and then production went back to Australia to complete the rest of shooting 27 on May 17th second unit was filming scenes in Bakersfield where a helicopter was spotted while Johnson was busy in Gold Coast 28 on June 22nd the crew was spotted filming disaster scenes on Elizabeth Street in Brisbane 29 filming outside at in tea Park the film's second unit started shooting on July 8th in San Francisco while the first unit began shooting on July 21st wrapping up on July 27th 30 on July 15 16 first unit was filming at Fisherman's Warf while a second unit was also filming on the Embarcadero on July 16th 31 on July 21st the filming was taking place at AT and T Park where the crew shot a scene during a San Francisco Giants game 32 on July 22nd they filmed an earthquake with fake victims and fake garbage at hide and Lombard streets on Russian Hill 33 on July 23rd Crews were filming disaster scenes in the Armory 3 before on July 26th they filmed some scenes near the Fairmont Hotel with the last day of filming spent shooting on the California Street in the financial district 35 wrapping up filming on July 27th 2014 visual effects the visual effects are provided by hydr cocy and image engine and supervised by Greg and Colin straws huler Voss and Martin kulpit with help from scanline bfx and Method Studios 36 music on July 24th 2014 it was announced that Andrew lockington would be composing the music for the film 37 Three teasers were revealed and two of them include robot and delh Def France and just singing California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas San Andreas premiered on May 26th 2015 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles 40 it was initially scheduled for a 2D and 3D release on June 5th 2015 41 but was later moved up a week 42 San Andreas was also released in Dolby Vision making it Warner Bros pictures first film to adopt the format 43 home media San Andreas was released as a digital download and on Blu-ray and DVD on October 13 2015 44 upon its first week of release on home media in the US the film topped the neelen videok skin First Alert chart which tracks overall disc sales and debut at number two at the Blu-ray disc sales chart with 40% of unit sales coming from Blu-ray a surprisingly low ratio given the films over the top special effects it was blocked by the diamond edition Blu-ray disc edition of the 1992 Disney animated classic Aladdin 45 as of 2016 it is available in 4k oud Blu-ray San Andreas grossed $15.1 million in the United States and Canada and 39 .4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $474.58 18.7 million accounting for production budgets marketing talent participations and other costs box office grosses and home media revenues placed at 18th on their list of 2015 most valuable Blockbusters 47 since its release the film Remains the highest grossing liveaction Hollywood original film of the past 7 years as of July 2022 48 North America San Andreas opened in North America across 3,777 theaters including a total of 323d locations 49 several days prior to the film's release various box office pundits were predicting a 40 million or more opening in North America 350 it made $3.1 million from Thursday night showings 51 and $18.2 million on its opening day 52 to 53 it earned $54.5 million in its opening weekend which was well above the tracking and predictions 54 and 55 it was Johnson's biggest opening as a lead actor surpassing the $36 million debut of his The Scorpion King in 22 even after adjusting for inflation 56 Warner Bros distribution Chief Dan Felman comment 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 55 in its second weekend it experienced a drop of 50 2% earning an estimated $26.4 million falling in second place behind spy but experiencing a smaller fall than that of other disaster movies 57 outside North America outside North America the film opened in a total of 60 countries in the same weekend including France the United Kingdom Mexico and Australia 58 it open Wednesday May 27th in four countries added 38 countries on Thursday and 18 more countries on Friday May 2959 and through Sunday May 31st earned a 5-day opening weekend total of $ 63.9 million from 15420 screens in 60 countries debuting at first place in 55 of those countries as well as at the international box office 60 in its second weekend it added 97.7 million 61 at top the box office outside of North America for two consecutive weekends before being overtaken by Jurassic world in its third weekend 61 it had the biggest opening for a disaster movie and second biggest for Warner Bros in Mexico with $10.1 million from 3 a100 screens 60 in China it had a 3-day opening weekend of $35 million 62 and 6-day opening total of $ 51.8 million from $ 8,795 screens 61 although Chinese box office analyst F in group reported a $55 million opening 63 despite health concerns over the MS virus 64 which resulted in the plunge of theater admissions 65 the film opened to $7.2 million in South Korea including Wednesday sneaks and top the box office 6 at 166 it had similar successful openings in the UK Ireland and Malta 7.2 million Russia and the CIS $5.3 million Brazil 3.2 million ion France $3.1 million India $2.5 million Australia $2.4 million Hong Kong $2.2 million and Germany $2 million 661 it became Warner Bros highest grossing film of all time in Mexico chile Colombia Peru and Venezuela and in China it is the fourth highest SE 768 as of June 28th 2015 in total earnings its largest market outside of North America are China $13.2 million and Mexico $28.4 million 69 critical response on Rotten Tomatoes a review aggregator the film has an approval rating of 48% based on 252 reviews and an average rating of five 210 the website's critical consensus reads San Andreas has a great cast and outstanding special effects but amidst all the senses shattering destruction the movie these characters and plot prove less than structurally sound 70 on Metacritic the film has a score of 43 out of 100 based on 42 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 71 audiences pulled by cinem mascord gave the film an average grade of a on an A plus to f scale 72 an awarded at a score of 7.5 out of 10 saying there are some cracks in the foundation but San Andreas is solid popcorn Fair thank to Sharp visuals and The Rock 73 writing in variety Andrew Barker wrote of the many charges that can be levied against Brad pton San Andreas false advertising is not one of them the disaster pick promises nothing more than the complete CGI destruction of California as foregrounded by Dwayne Johnson's jack fruit size biceps and it delivers exactly that 74 Andrew oer Road in Salon considered as pure spectacle San Andreas is G and effective as well as a somewhat interesting form of counternarrative a vision of near-term Apocalypse that has nothing to do with climate change monsters or Alien Invaders 75 entertainment Weekly's critic Chris nashy wrote as patently Preposterous scientifically dubious and unapologetically corny as director Brad Payton's orgy of CGI Devastation is its popcorn Prophecy of the inevitable is a blast of giddy disposable fun 76 MC laal wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle some movies are easy to mock but hard to resist this is one of them 77 the American geosciences institute's Earth magazine called the film Dreadful and criticized it for perpetuating geologic absurdities also pointing out that despite the notoriety of the San Andreas fault it is not the greatest seismic threat to the Bay Area with a nearby Hayward fault having the potential to cause immense damage to Bridges roads util ities and Communications with a smaller magnitude Quake due to its proximity to areas of dense Urban population while a full rupture along the Cascadia subduction zone would be the worst disaster of US History 78 a rupture along the Hayward fault would affect a much smaller area where the impact on the urban infrastructure could be mitigated by retrofitting enforcement of seismic building codes and other preparedness measures 79 accolades at the 2015 Teen Choice Award San Andreas was nominated for Choice movie action didario and Johnson received a nomination for Choice movie actress action and choice Summer movie star male respectively 8ot garnered nominations for outstanding visual effects in a photoal feature outstanding effect simulations in a photoal feature earned too an outstanding compositing in a feature motion picture at the 14th visual effects Society Awards 81 Johnson was nominated for best action performance and best hero at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards in February 2016 new line announced a sequel is in development and its plot will reportedly focus on the ring of fire Neil Weidner and Gavin James were hired as screenwriters while Brad Payton and Bo Flynn will return as director and producer respectively Johnson is said to reprise his role while Gino didario and jamad are expected to return as well Johnson and Payton were announced to serve as producers 8 384 in July 2021 didario expressed her doubts that a sequel was happening 85 in November 2021 Johnson announced that they are still developing the sequel while stating that scheduling conflicts are why the production has not started yet 86 he elaborated that his Studio looks for projects that have what they internally call the Moses effect explaining that this means that they take immediate precedence over the rest of the many projects on their film slate stating that he feels like the sequel falls into this category 87 in December 2021 ham Garcia confirmed that Warner Bros pictures wants a sequel while seven bucks Productions delayed development in favor of other projects Dwayne Douglas Johnson born May 2nd 1972 also known by his ring name the rock is an American actor professional wrestler and businessman he is signed to WWE where he performs on a part-time bases widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers ever 67 Johnson was integral to the development and success of the World Wrestling Federation WWF now WWE during the Attitude Era he wrestled for the WWF full-time for eight years before pursuing an acting career his films have grossed over $3.5 billion in North America and over 10.5 billion worldwide Aid making him one of the world's highest grossing and highest paid actors 9101 he is a co-owner of the United Football League 121 e314 a member of the board of directors of TKO group Holdings the parent company of UF WW1 1516 17 and co-founder of seven bucks Productions 18 after accepting an athletic scholarship to play football at the University of Miami Johnson was a member of the 1991 National Championship team but was largely a backup player 19 despite aspirations to professional football he went undrafted in the 1995 NFL draft and briefly signed with the Calgary stamps before being cut in his first season 20 in 1996 his father assisted in helping him secure a contract with the WWF one Johnson quickly Rose to Global prominence aided by a gimmick he employed as a charismatic trash talker Johnson left the WWE in 2004 he returned in 2011 as a part-time performer until till 2013 and made sporadic appearances from there on until his retirement in 2019 21 in 2023 he returned once again on a part-time basis a 10-time world champion including the promotions first of African-American descent 22 he is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion a five-time tag team champion the 2A Royal Rumble winner and we6 Triple Crown Champion Johnson headlined multiple payper viiew events including we's flag ship event WrestleMania 6 times 15 16 17 28 29 and 40 which includes the most bought professional wrestling pay perview Wrestlemania 28 and Main evented the most watched episodes of we's Flagship television series Raw and SmackDown 2324 Johnson's first film role was in The Mummy Returns 2001 the next year he played his first leading role in the action fantasy film The Scorpion King he has since starred in family films the game plan 27 Race to Witch Mountain 29 to fairy 2010 Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Jumanji the next level 2019 and jungle cruise 2021 and the action films Journey 2 the Mysterious Island 2012 G Joe retaliation 2013 Hercules 2014 skyscraper 2018 San Andreas 2015 and ramp page 2018 he also starred in the action comedy films get smart 28 Central intellig 2016 Baywatch 2017 and red notice 2021 his role as Luke Hobs in the Fast and Furious films beginning with Fast 5 2011 helped the franchise become one of the highest grossing in film 25 he joined the DC extended Universe by playing the title role in Black adom 2022 26 he is also known for voicing Maui in the Disney animated film Mona 2016 Johnson produced and starred in the HBO Comedy Dr drama series Ballers 2015 201927 and the autobiographical sitcom young Rock 2021 to 2023 his autobiography The Rock Says was released in 2000 and was a New York Times bestseller 28 29 and 2016 and 2019 time named him as one of the world's most influential people Johnson was born in Hayward California 32 at 33 on May 2nd 1972 34 the son of matu fig malada fit is Manu name mayia 3D 536 and former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson born Way Douglas bowls 3D 738 growing up he briefly lived in greylin in Auckland New Zealand with his mother's family 39 where he played rugby 40 and attended Richmond Road primary school before returning to the US 39 e Johnson attended Montclair Elementary School in Charlotte North Carolina and then moved to hamen Connecticut where he attended Shephard Glenn Elementary School and then hamton Middle School 5556 he attended President William McKinley High School in Honolulu and then glencliffe high school and mavo high school both in Nashville Tennessee and then Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state where he graduated in 1990 57 at Freedom High School Johnson initially struggled and was drawn into a culture of conflict and petty crime by age 17 he had been arrested several times for fighting theft and check fraud and was suspended two weeks for fighting 58 an article in the local newspaper labeled him a troubled teenager with a history of run-ins with police but Freedom High School football coach Jody C wix saw athletic potential in Johnson and recruited him to join the School's football team where he played defensive tackle an experience that proved to be a significant personal transformation for Johnson my thought process started to change that's when I started thinking about goals and what I wanted to accomplish he has since said about his high school football experience 19 in addition to playing football Johnson also was a member of Freedom High School's track and field and wrestling teams the 37 by his senior year at Freedom High School Johnson had played only two years of football but was offered a full athletic scholarship offered from the University of Miami whose football program was beginning to emerge as one of the nation's top level enca division one teams as he did in high school Johnson continued to play defensive tackle at the University of Miami where he was a member of the Miami Hurricane's 1991 team which won that year's National Championship 59 and 37 despite playing four years there however Johnson found himself behind elite players on the depth chart including future NFL star and Pro Football Hall of Fame and ducky Warren Sap and appeared mostly in backup roles 661 in his time at Miami Johnson played in 39 games with one start he recorded 4.5 sacks and 77 tackles 62 in 1995 Johnson graduated with a bachelor of General Studies and a dual major in criminology and Physiology 363 he was also one of the University's most prolific student speakers in the Miami area Community frequently delivering positive messages about his own struggles and encouraging students to remain in school and avoid the dangers of drug use 64 Canadian Football League after graduating Johnson was signed by the Calgary stamps of the Canadian Football League Calgary moved him from defensive tackle to linebacker he was assigned to Calgary's practice roster but was cut two months into Calgary's 1995 season after being cut by Calgary Johnson began his professional wrestling career the next year in 1996 37 veteran wrestler Pat Patterson secured several try out matches for Johnson with the World Wrestling Federation WWF in 1996 wrestling at first under his real name Johnson defeated the Brooklyn Brawler at a house show on March 1067 and lost matches to Chris candido and Owen Hart 39 after wrestling at Jerry Lawler's United States wrestling Association under the name flex cavana and winning the uswa Tag Team Championship twice with his partner Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996 Johnson was signed to a WWF contract he received additional training from Tom Pritchard alongside of Chim alre and Mark Henry 539 World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Champion 1996 1997 Johnson made his WWF debut as Rocky mavia a combination of his father and grandfather's ring names although announcers acknowledged his real name 68 he was initially reluctant to take this ring name but was persuaded by Vince McMahan and Jim Ross 4869 he was given the nickname the blue chipper and to play up his lineage he was hyped as the wwf's first third generation wrestler to a clean cutf character mavia was pushed heavily from the start despite his wrestling in experience he debuted on Monday Night Raw as a member of Mark miro's entourage on November 4th 1996 70 his first match came at Survivor series on November 17th 1996 in an 8-man elimination tag match he was the sole survivor and eliminated the final two members of the opposing team Crush and Goldust s 1 on February 13th 1997 he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hurst Helmsley on Monday Night Raw 7273 with 74 Mia then successfully defended the title against Helmsley at in your house 13 final four Johnson's first WrestleMania match came at WrestleMania 13 on March 23rd 1997 where he was victorious in his Intercontinental Championship defense against the sultan WWF fans started to reject his his character and push from the company 75 he defeated Brett Hart by disqualification in a title defense on the March 31st episode of Raw is war 76 behind the scenes Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF 77 and refused to be booked to take the title from him 78 on April 20th at iny your house 14 revenge of the taker he lost his saoa by count out but retained the title audiences became increasingly hostile toward Ava with chance of die Rocky die and Rocky sucks being heard during his matches 148 after losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28th 1997 episode of Raw is war 79 mayia suffered a legitimate knee injury in a match against Mankind in June 1997 and spent several months recovering one nation of domination 1997 1998 see also nation of Domin ation Upon returning in August 1997 Mia turned heel for the first time in his career by lashing out at fans who had been booing him and joining faru Delo Brown and Kama in the stable called the nation of domination 80 he then refused to acknowledge the rocky mavia name instead referring to himself in the third person as The Rock though he would still be build as The Rock Rocky mavia until 1998 The Rock would then regularly insult the audience WWF performers and and interviewers in his promos 80 at Degeneration X in your house on December 7th 1997 Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad pyton and written by Carlton cuse with Andre fabrisio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit the film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role with Carla guino Alexandra derario ion Gruff Archie Panjabi and Paul M its plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault devastating the west coast of the United States principal photography of the film started on April 22nd 2014 in Queensland Australia and wrapped up on July 28th in San Francisco the film premiered in Hollywood Los Angeles on May 26th 2015 and was released in the United States on May 29th it received mixed reviews from critics praising the visual effects and Johnson and Gino's performances but criticizing the plot and characters the film grossed $474 million worldwide Caltech seismologist Dr Lawrence Hayes and his colleague Dr Kim Park are at Hoover Dam testing a new earthquake prediction model when a nearby and previously unknown fault ruptures triggering a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that collapses the Dam Park sacrifices himself to save a young girl and gets Swept Away by the water Hayes discovers that the entire San Andrea's fault is Shifting and will soon cause several massive earthquakes potentially destroying cities along the fault line he begins racing to warn the population of California along with his students Alexi and feeb and reporter Serena Johnson when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastates Los Angeles and San Francisco Ray gains a chief rescue helicopter pilot of the laugh who is going through a divorce from his wife Emma finds himself rescuing her from a skyscraper in Los Angeles meanwhile their daughter Blake has been visiting San Francisco with Emma's new boyfriend Daniel at that moment an earthquake strikes the city rubble from the collapsing parking garage pins her in Daniel's car Daniel leaves Blake to find help for her but then panics and ultimately abandons her in an act of cowardice Ben Taylor a British engineer seeking employment at Daniel's firm and Ben's younger brother Ali rescue Lake and they reached Chinatown successfully calling her parents for help Ray and Emma attempt to reach San Francisco and raise helicopter Until It suffers a gearbox failure forcing them to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in backersfield amid the chaos of looting Ray steals a truck to continue the journey the pair encounters a couple broken down on the side of the road shortly before the San Andrea's fault which has torn a large fisure through the highway and extends for the perceivable length of the fault in either direction Ray and Emma exchanged the truck for an airplane the couple owns as Blake Ben and Ali attempt to reach Knob Hill to Signal the pair after finding their previous meeting point at koit Tower engulfed in flames Ray and Emma parachute into at and te Park just before a 9.6 magnitude Quake hits becoming the largest recorded earthquake in history as the Quake subsides having destroyed much of the city Ray and Emma commandeer a boat to reach the group only to realize a tsunami is approaching San Francisco Bay alongside a handful of other survivors in small ships the two cross the wave before it crests barely avoiding a container ship caught up in the tsunami wave the ship crashes into the Golden Gate bridges Center spam killing everyone on the bridge including Daniel who gets crushed by a falling shipping container this tsunami strikes the ruined City capsizing a cruise ship and killing thousands more Blake Ben and Ali enter the gate a building whose construction Daniel had been overseeing but are still caught by the wave as the building begins to collapse trapping Blake underwater Ray Dives in rescues her and performs CPR Emma crashes the boat through a window and drives the five of them out of the collapsing building as Ry resuscitates Blake the survivors regroup at a relief camp on the other side of the bay where the reconciled Ray and Emma talk about their future on the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge an American American flag unfolds giving hope that the city will recover and rebuild as rescue vehicles descend on the destroyed landscape of the San francisc Bay Area which now extends from San Jose to Santa Cruz turning the San Francisco Peninsula into an island on December 1st 2011 it was announced that new line Cinema was developing an earthquake disaster film San Andreas 3D from a script by Jeremy Passmore and Andre fabrio 25 Allen lobe polished the script on June 5th 2012 the studio set Brad Payton to direct the film six on July 18th 2012 new line tapped Carlton cuse to rewrite the script for the earthquake disaster film seven on July 18 2013 The Conjuring writers Carri Hayes and Chad Hayes were tapped by the studio to rewrite the film again at the film was also produced by new line in Village Road show pictures along with Flynn Picture company and Australian limited Village Road Show nine casting on October 14 2013 Dwayne Johnson closed a deal to star in the film playing the role of a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter after an earthquake 10 on February 4th 2014 Alexander Dario joined the cast 11 on March 12th 2014 Carla Gugino joined the cast reuniting with Dwayne Johnson with whom she starred in Race to Witch Mountain and faster 12 on March 14th 2014 Game of Thrones actor art Parkinson joined the film's cast 13 on April 1st 2014 Archie Panjabi joined the earthquake film 14 on April 5th 2014 Todd Williams also joined the film to play Marcus crawlings an old army friend of Johnson's character 15 on April 15 2014 Colton Haynes was added to the cast of the film 16 on April 29th ion Gruff joined the cast of the film Gruff played Daniel reic a wealthy real estate develop ER who is dating Johnson's character's estranged wife 17 on May 28th Will Young Lee join the cast to play Dr Kim Park the co-director of the Caltech seismology lab in the film 18 on June 11th Australian singer and actress Kylie menad joined the film to play grod's sister 19 filming second unit filming on Queen Street in Brisbane Queensland Australia on June 22nd 2014 on December 17 2013 variety reported that the film would be shot at Village Road Show studios in Gold Coast Queensland Australia 9 the production was set to start in April 2014 in Queensland with locations including ipswitch various Suburban locations across the Gold Coast in Brisbane wedding 20 on March 20th 2014 it was announced that gods of Egypt had started production in Australia and San Andreas was set to begin soon after 21 on April 16th 2014 Johnson tweeted photos from the training for the film 2223 filming began on April 22nd 2014 in Australia and was also shot in the Los Angeles area backersfield and San Francisco 24025 on May 12th shooting took place in the Loire Valley 26 on May 10th 11 shooting was taking place in Los Angeles and then production went back to Australia to complete the rest of shooting 27 on May 17th second unit was filming scenes in Bakersfield where a helicopter was spotted while Johnson was busy in Gold Coast 28 on June 22nd the crew was spotted filming disaster scenes on Elizabeth Street in Brisbane 29 filming outside at in tea Park the film's second unit started shooting on July 8th in San Francisco while the first unit began shooting on July 21st wrapping up on July 27th 30 on July 15 first unit was filming at Fisherman's Warf while a second unit was also filming on the Embarcadero on July 16th 31 on July 21st the filming was taking place at AT and T Park where the crew shot a scene during a San Francisco Giants game 32 on July 22nd they filmed an earthquake with fake victims and fake garbage at hide and Lombard streets on Russian Hill 33 on July 23rd Crews were filming disaster scenes in the Armory 3 4 on July 26th they filmed some scenes near the Fairmont Hotel with the last day of filming spent shooting on the California Street in the financial district 35 wrapping up filming on July 27th 2014 visual effects the visual effects are provided by hydr cocy and image engine and supervised by Greg and Colin straws huler Voss and Martin kulpit with help from scanline bfx and Method Studios 36 music on July 24th 2014 it was announced that Andrew lockington would be composing the music for the film 37 Three teasers were revealed and two of them include robot and delhia Def France and just singing California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas San Andreas premiered on May 26th 2015 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles 40 it was initially scheduled for a 2D and 3D release on June 5th 2015 41 but was later moved up a week 42 San Andreas was also released in Dolby Vision making it Warner Bros pictures first film to adopt the format 43 home media San Andreas was released as a digital download and on Blu-ray and DVD on October 13 2015 44 upon its first week of release on home media in the US the film topped the neelon vide skin First Alert chart which tracks overall disc sales and debut at number two at the Blu-ray disc sales chart with 40% of unit sales coming from Blu-ray a surprisingly low ratio given the films over the top special effects it was blocked by the diamond edition Blu-ray disc edition of the 1992 Disney animated classic Aladdin 45 as of 2016 it is available in 4k oud Blu-ray San Andreas gross $15.1 million in the United States and Canada and 39 .4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $474.58 18.7 million accounting for production budgets marketing talent participations and other costs box office grosses and home media revenues placed at 18th on their list of 2015's most valuable Blockbusters 47 since its release the film Remains the highest grossing liveaction Hollywood original film of the past 7 years as of July 2022 48 North America San Andreas opened in North America across 3,777 theaters including a total of 323d locations 49 several days prior to the film's release various box office pundits were predicting a 40 million or more opening in North America 350 it made $3.1 million from Thursday night showings 51 and $18.2 million on its opening day 52 to 53 it earned 54.5 million in its opening weekend which was well above the tracking and predictions 54 and 55 it was Johnson's biggest opening as a lead actor surpassing the $36 million debut of his The Scorpion King in 22 even after adjusting for inflation 56 Warner Bros distribution Chief Dan Felman comment 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 55 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 57 outside North America outside North America the film opened in a total of 60 countries in the same weekend including France the United Kingdom Mexico and Australia 58 it open Wednesday May 27th in four countries added 38 countries on Thursday and 18 more countries on Friday May 2959 and through Sunday May 31st earned a 5-day opening weekend total of $ 63.9 million from 15420 screens in 60 countries debuting at first place in 55 of those countries as well as at the international box office 60 in its second weekend it added 97.7 million 61 at top the box office outside of North America for two consecutive weekends before War being overtaken by Jurassic world in its third weekend 61 it had the biggest opening for a disaster movie and second biggest for Warner Bros in Mexico with $10.1 million from 3a1 100 screens 60 in China it had a 3-day opening weekend of $35 million 62 and 6-day opening total of 51.8 million from $ 8,795 screens 61 although Chinese box office analysts fight in group reported a $55 million opening 63 despite health concerns over the MS virus 64 which resulted in the plunge of theater admissions 65 the film opened to $7.2 million in South Korea including Wednesday sneaks and top the box office 6A 166 it had similar successful openings in the UK Ireland and Malta 7.2 million Russia and the Cy $5.3 million Brazil 3.2 milli million France $3.1 million India $2.5 million Australia $2.4 million Hong Kong $2.2 million and Germany $2 million 661 it became Warner Bros highest grossing film of all time in Mexico chile Colombia Peru and Venezuela and in China it is the fourth highest SE 768 as of June 28th 2015 in total earnings its largest market outside of North America are China $13.2 million and Mexico $28.4 million 69 critical response on Rotten Tomatoes a review aggregator the film has an approval rating of 48% based on 252 reviews and an average rating of five 210 the website's critical consensus reads San Andreas has a great cast and outstanding special effects but amidst all the senses shattering destruction the moovie these characters and plot prove less than structurally sound 70 on Metacritic the film has a score of 43 out of 100 based on 42 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 71 audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of a on an A plus to f scale 72 an awarded at a score of 7.5 out of 10 saying there are some cracks in the foundation but San Andreas is solid popcorn Fair thank thanks to Sharp visuals and The Rock 73 writing in variety Andrew Barker wrote of the many charges that can be levied against Brad pton San Andreas false advertising is not one of them the disaster pick promises nothing more than the complete CGI destruction of California as foregrounded by Dwayne Johnson's jack fruit size biceps and it delivers exactly that 74 Andrew oer wrote In Salon considered as pure spectacle San Andreas is gripping and effective as well as a somewhat interesting form of counternarrative a vision of near-term Apocalypse that has nothing to do with climate change monsters or Alien Invaders 75 entertainment Weekly's critic Chris nashy wrote as patently Preposterous scientifically dubious and unapologetically corny as director Brad Payton's orgy of CGI Devastation is its popcorn Prophecy of the inevitable is a blast of giddy disposable fun 76 mck laal wrote In the San Francisco Chronicle some movies are easy to mock but hard to resist this is one of them 77 the American geosciences institute's Earth magazine called the film Dreadful and criticized it for perpetuating geologic absurdities also pointing out that despite the notoriety of the San Andreas fault it is not the greatest seismic threat to the Bay Area with a nearby Hayward fault having the potential to cause immense damage to Bridges roads util ities and Communications with a smaller magnitude Quake due to its proximity to areas of dense Urban population while a full rupture along the Cascadia subduction zone would be the worst disaster of US History 78 a rupture along the Hayward fault would affect a much smaller area where the impact on the urban infrastructure could be mitigated by retrofitting enforcement of seismic building codes and other preparedness measures 79 accolades at the 2015 Teen Choice Award Awards San Andreas was nominated for Choice movie action didario and Johnson received a nomination for Choice movie actress action and choice Summer movie star male respectively 88 garnered nominations for outstanding visual effects in a photoal feature outstanding effect simulations in a photoal feature earned to an outstanding compositing in a feature motion picture at the 14th visual effects Society Awards 81 Johnson was nominated for best acttion performance and best hero at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards in February 2016 new line announced a sequel is in development and its plot will reportedly focus on the ring of fire Neil weida and Gavin James were hired as screenwriters while Brad pton and Bo Flynn will return as director and producer respectively Johnson is said to reprise his role while Gino didario and jamad are expected to return as well Johnson and Payton were announced to serve as producers 8 384 in July 2021 didario expressed her doubts that a sequel was happening 85 in November 2021 Johnson announced that they are still developing the sequel while stating that scheduling conflicts are why the production has not started yet 86 he elaborated that his Studio looks for projects that have what they internally call the Moses effect explaining that this means that they take immediate precedence over the rest of the many projects on their film slate stating that he feels like the sequel falls into this category 87 in December 2021 ham Garcia confirmed that Warner Bros pictures wants a sequel while seven bucks Productions delayed development in favor of other projects Dwayne Douglas Johnson born May 2nd 1972 also known by his ring name the rock is an American actor professional wrestler and businessman he is signed to WWE where he performs on a part-time basis widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers ever 67 Johnson was integral to the development and success of the World Wrestling Federation WWF now WWE during the Attitude Era he wrestled for the WWF fulltime for eight years before pursuing an acting career his films have grossed over $3.5 billion do in North America and over $10.5 billion worldwide eight making him one of the world's highest grossing and highest paid actors 9101 he is a co-owner of the United Football League 121 e314 a member of the board of directors of TKO group Holdings the parent company of ufan WW1 1516 17 and co-founder of seven bucks Productions 18 after accepting an athletic scholarship to play football at the University of Miami Johnson was a member of the 1991 National Championship team but was largely a backup player 19 despite aspirations to professional football he went undrafted in the 1995 NFL draft and briefly signed with the Calgary Stampers before being cut in his first season 20 in 1996 his father assisted in helping him secure a contract with the WWF one Johnson quickly Rose to Global prominence aided by a gimmick he employed as a charismatic trash talker Johnson left the WWE in 2004 he returned in 2011 as a part-time performer and till 2013 and made sporadic appearances from there on until his retirement in 2019 21 in 2023 he returned once again on a part-time basis a 10-time world champion including the promotions first of African-American descent 22 he is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion a five-time tag team champion the 2A Royal Rumble winner and we6 Triple Crown Champion Johnson headlined multiple pay-per-view events including W's flag FL ship event WrestleMania 6 times 15 16 17 28 29 and 40 which includes the most bought professional wrestling pay-per-view Wrestlemania 28 and Main evented the most watched episodes of we's Flagship television series Raw and SmackDown 2324 Johnson's first film role was in The Mummy Returns 2001 the next year he played his first leading role in the action fantasy film The Scorpion King he has since starred in films the game plan 27 Race to Witch Mountain 29 to fairy 2010 Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Jumanji the next level 2019 and jungle cruise 2021 and the action films Journey 2 the Mysterious Island 2012 G Joe retaliation 2013 Hercules 2014 skyscraper 2018 San Andreas 2015 and ramp page 2018 he also starred in the action comedy films get smart 28 Central intell Ence 2016 Baywatch 2017 and red notice 2021 his role as Luke Hobbs in the Fast and Furious films beginning with Fast 5 2011 helped the franchise become one of the highest grossing in film 25 he joined the DC extended Universe by playing the title role in black atom 2022 26 he is also known for voicing Maui in the Disney animated film Mona 2016 Johnson produced and starred in the HBO Comedy drama series Ballers 2015 201927 and the autobiographical sitcom young Rock 2021 to 2023 his autobiography The Rock Says was released in 2000 and was a New York Times bestseller 28 29 and 2016 and 2019 time named him as one of the world's most influential people Johnson was born in Hayward California 32 at 33 on May 2nd 1972 34 the son of matu falada F Manu name mayia 3D 536 and former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson born Way Douglas bows 3D 738 growing up he briefly lived in greylin in Auckland New Zealand with his mother's family 39 where he played rugby 40 and attended Richmond Road primary school before returning to the US 39 e Johnson attended Montclair Elementary School in Charlotte North Carolina and then moved to hamton Connecticut where he attended Shephard Glenn Elementary School and then hamton Middle School 5556 he attended President William McKinley High School in Honolulu and then glencliffe high school and mavo high school both in Nashville Tennessee and then Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state where he graduated in 1990 57 at Freedom High School Johnson initially struggled and was drawn into a culture of conflict and petty crime by age 17 he had been arrested several times for fighting theft and check fraud and was suspended 2 weeks for fighting 58 an article in the local newspaper labeled him a troubled teenager with a history of run-ins with police but Freedom High School football coach jod cwick saw athletic potential in Johnson and recruited him to join the School's football team where he played defensive tackle an experience that proved to be a significant personal transformation for Johnson my thought process started to change that's when I started thinking about goals and what I wanted to accomplish he has since said about his high school football experience 19 in addition to playing football Johnson also was a member of Freedom High School's track and field and wrestling teams 37 by his senior year at Freedom High School Johnson had played only two years of football but was offered a full athletic scholarship offered from the University of Miami whose football program was beginning to emerge as one of the nation's top level encod division one teams as he did in high school Johnson continued to play defensive tackle at the University of Miami where he was a member of the Miami Hurricanes 1991 team which won that year's National Championship 59 and 37 despite playing four years there however Johnson found himself behind elite players on the depth chart including future NFL star and Pro Football Hall of Fame and duct Warren Sap and appeared mostly in backup roles 661 in his time at Miami Johnson played in 39 games with one start he recorded 4.5 sacks and 77 tackles 62 in 1995 Johnson graduated with a bachelor of of General Studies and a dual major in criminology and Physiology 363 he was also one of the University's most prolific student speakers in the Miami area Community frequently delivering positive messages about his own struggles and encouraging students to remain in school and avoid the dangers of drug use 64 Canadian Football League after graduating Johnson was signed by the Calgary stamps of the Canadian Football League Calgary moved him from defensive tackle to linebacker he was assigned to Calgary's practice roster but was cut two months into Calgary's 1995 season after being cut by Calgary Johnson began his professional wrestling career the next year in 1996 37 veteran wrestler Pat Patterson secured several try out matches for Johnson with the World Wrestling Federation WWF in 1996 wrestling at first under his real name Johnson defeated the Brooklyn Brawler at a house show on March 1067 and lost matches to Chris candido and Owen Hart 39 after wrestling at Jerry Lawler's United States wrestling Association under the name flex cavana and winning the uswa Tag Team Championship twice with his partner Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996 Johnson was signed to a WWF contract he received additional training from Tom Pritchard alongside of Chim alre and Mark Henry 539 World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment Intercontinental Champion 1996 1997 Johnson made his WWF debut as Rocky mavia a combination of his father and grandfather's ring names although announcers acknowledged his real name 68 he was initially reluctant to take this ring name but was persuaded by Vince McMahan and Jim Ross 48 and 69 he was given the nickname the blue chipper and to play up his lineage he was hyped as the wwf's first third generation wrestler to a clean cutf character mavia was pushed heavily from the start despite his wrestling and experience he debuted on Monday Night Raw as a member of Mark miro's entourage on November 4th 1996 70 his first match came at Survivor series on November 17th 1996 in an 8-man elimination tag match he was the sole survivor and eliminated the final two members of the opposing team Crush and Goldust said 71 on February 13th 1997 he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hurst Helmsley on Monday Night Raw 7273 with 74 Mia then successfully defended the title against Helmsley at in your house 13 final four Johnson's first WrestleMania match came at WrestleMania 13 on March 23rd 1997 where he was victorious in his Intercontinental Championship defense against the sultan WWF fans started to reject his character and push from the company 75 he defeated Brett Hart by disqualification in a title defense on the March 31st episode of Raw is war 76 behind the scenes Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF 77 and refused to be booked to take the title from him 78 on April 20th at iny your house 14 revenge of the taker he lost his Sav OA by count out but retained the title audiences became increasingly hostile toward Mia with chance of die Rocky die and Rocky sucks being heard during his matches 148 after losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28th 1997 episode of Raw is war 79 Mia suffered a legitimate knee injury in a match against Mankind in June 1997 and spent several months recovering one nation of domination 1997 1998 see also nation of mination Upon returning in August 1997 Mia turned heel for the first time in his career by lashing out at fans who had been booing him and joining faru Delo Brown and Kama in the stable called the nation of domination 80 he then refused to acknowledge the rocky mavia name instead referring to himself in the third person as The Rock though he would still be build as The Rock Rocky mavia until 1998 The Rock would then regularly insult the audience WWF performers and interviewers in his promos 80 at Degeneration X in your house on December 7th 1997 Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad pton and written by Carlton cuse with Andre fabrisio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit the film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role with Carla gjino Alexandra daerio ion Gruff Archie Panjabi and Paul jatti its plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas fault devastating the west coast of the United States principal photography of the film started on April 22nd 2014 in Queensland Australia and wrapped up on July 28th in San Francisco the film premiered in Hollywood Los Angeles on May 26 2015 and was released in the United States on May 29th it received mixed reviews from critics praising the visual effect and Johnson and Gino's performances but criticizing the plot and characters the film grossed $474 million worldwide Caltech seismologist Dr Lawrence Hayes and his colleague Dr Kim Park are at Hoover Dam testing a new earthquake prediction model when a nearby and previously unknown fault ruptures triggering a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that collapses the Dam Park sacrifices himself to save a young girl and gets Swept Away by the water Hayes discovers that the entire San Andreas fault is Shifting and will soon cause several massive earthquakes potentially destroying cities along the fault line he begins racing to warn the population of California along with his students Alexi and feeb and reporter Serena Johnson when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastates Los Angeles and San Francisco Ray gain a chief rescue helicopter pilot of the laugh who is going through a divorce from his wife Emma finds himself rescuing her from a skyscraper in Los Angeles meanwhile their daughter Blake has been visiting San Francisco with Emma's new boyfriend Daniel at that moment an earthquake strikes the city rubble from the collapsing parking garage pins her in Daniel's car Daniel leaves Blake to find help for her but then panics and ultimately abandons her in an act of cowardice Ben Taylor a British engineer seeking employment at Daniel's firm and Ben's younger brother Ali rescue Blake and they reached Chinatown successfully calling her parents for help Ray and Emma attempt to reach San Francisco and raise helicopter Until It suffers a gearbox failure forcing them to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in backersfield amid the chaos of looting Ray steals a truck to continue the journey the pair encounters a couple broken down on the side of the road shortly before the San Andrea's fault which has torn a large fisure through the highway and extends for the perceivable length of the fault in either direction Ray and Emma exchanged the truck for an airplane the couple owns as Blake Ben and Alli attempt to reach Knob Hill to Signal the pair after finding their previous meeting point at koit Tower engulfed in flames Ray and Emma parachute into at and te Park just before a 9.6 magnitude Quake hits becoming the largest recorded earthquake in history as the Quake subsides having destroyed much of the city Ray and Emma commandeer a boat to reach the group only to realize a tsunami is approaching San Francisco Bay alongside a handful of other survivors in small ships the two cross the wave before it crests barely avoiding a container ship caught up in the tsunami wave the ship crashes into the Golden Gate bridges Center span killing everyone on the bridge including Daniel who gets crushed by a falling shipping container this tsunami strikes the ruined City capsizing a cruise ship and killing thousands more Blake Ben and Ali enter the gate a building whose construction Daniel had been overseeing but are still caught by the wave as the building begins to collapse trapping Blake underwater Ray Dives in rescues her and performs CPR Emma crashes the boat through a window and drives the five of them out of the collapsing building as Ry resuscitates Blake the survivors regroup at a relief camp on the other side of the bay where the reconciled Ray and Emma talk about their future on the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge and American flag unfolds giving hope that the city will recover and rebuild as rescue vehicles descend on the destroyed landscape of the San Francisco Bay area which now extends from San Jose to Santa Cruz turning the San Francisco Peninsula into an island on December 1st 2011 it was announced that new line Cinema was developing an earthquake disaster film San Andreas 3D from a script by Jeremy Passmore and Andre fabrio 25 Allen lobe polished the script on June 5th 2012 the studio set Brad Payton to direct the film six on July 18th 2012 new line tapped Carlton cuse to rewrite the script for the earthquake disaster film seven on July 18 2013 The Conjuring writers Carri Hayes and Chad Hayes were tapped by the studio to rewrite the film again a the film was also produced by new line in Village Road show pictures along with Flynn Picture company and Australian limited Village Road Show nine casting on October 14 2013 Dwayne Johnson closed a deal to star in the film playing the role of a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter after an earthquake 10 on February 4th 2014 Alexander Dario joined the cast 11 on March 12th 2014 Carla Gugino joined the cast reuniting with Dwayne Johnson with whom she starred in Race to Witch Mountain and faster 12 on March 14th 2014 Game of Thrones actor art Parkinson joined the film's cast 13 on April 1st 2014 Archie Panjabi joined the earthquake film 14 on April 5th 2014 Todd Williams also joined the film to play Marcus crawlings an old army friend of Johnson's character 15 on April 15 2014 Colton Haynes was added to the cast of the film 16 on April 29th ion Gruff joined the cast of the film Gruff played Daniel reic a wealthy real estate develop developer who is dating Johnson's character's estranged wife 17 on May 28th Will Young Lee join the cast to play Dr Kim Park the co-director of the Caltech seismology lab in the film 18 on June 11th Australian singer and actress kyy menad joined the film to play grod's sister 19 filming second unit filming on Queen Street in Brisbane Queensland Australia on June 22nd 2014 on December 7 2013 variety reported that the film would be shot at Village Road Show studios in Gold Coast Queensland Australia nine the production was set to start in April 2014 in Queensland with locations including ipswitch various Suburban locations across the Gold Coast in Brisbane wedding 20 on March 20th 2014 it was announced that gods of Egypt had started production in Australia and San Andreas was set to begin soon after 21 on April 16th 2014 Johnson tweeted photos from the training for the film 2223 filming began on April 22nd 2014 in Australia and was also shot in the Los Angeles area backersfield in San Francisco 24025 on May 12th shooting took place in the locky valley 26 on May 10th 11 shooting was taking place in Los Angeles and then production went back to Australia to complete the rest of shooting 27 on May 17 second unit was filming scenes in Bakersfield where a helicopter was spotted while Johnson was busy in Gold Coast 28 on June 22nd the crew was spotted filming disaster scenes on Elizabeth Street in Brisbane 29 filming outside at in tea Park the film's second unit started shooting on July 8th in San Francisco while the first unit began shooting on July 21st wrapping up on July 27th 30 on July 15th 16 first unit was filming at Fisherman's Warf while a second unit was also filming on the Embarcadero on July 16th 31 on July 21st the filming was taking place at AT and T Park where the crew shot a scene during a San Francisco Giants game 32 on July 22nd they filmed an earthquake with fake victims and fake garbage at hide and Lombard streets on Russian Hill 33 on July 23rd Crews were filming disaster scenes in the armory 4 on July 26th they filmed some scenes near the Fairmont Hotel with the last day of filming spent shooting on the California Street in the financial district 35 wrapping up filming on July 27th 2014 visual effects the visual effects are provided by hydr cocy and image engine and supervised by Greg and Colin straws holder Voss and Martin kulpit with help from scan line bfx and Method Studios 36 music on July 24th 2014 it was announced that Andrew lockington would be composing the music for the film 37 Three teasers were revealed and two of them include robot and delh Def France and just singing California Dreaming by the m and the Papas San Andreas premiered on May 26 2015 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles