Call of Duty Officially Passes Historic Franchise Milestone Ahead of Taylor Sheridan's Movie

The Call of Duty franchise has been around for years now, and it’s managed to stay in the spotlight thanks to its ability to continuously innovate and bring something new to the table. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the new game taking over the world right now, but as per usual, fans are sharing extremely divisive reviews of the new game while playing the new multiplayer and campaign modes. There’s even a new Call of Duty movie in the works at Paramount coming to theaters in 2028, but the project is still in the early stages of development, so little is known about the movie at this time. The film is being directed by Peter Berg and written by Taylor Sheridan, the same scribe who penned Yellowstone and other classic thrillers like Sicario and Wind River.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will benefit from sales throughout the rest of the year, but millions of fans have already purchased the game on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and even PC. Following the launch of Modern Warfare 4 not long ago, news broke that the Call of Duty franchise has officially crossed $40 million in total lifetime revenue. New XBOX CEO Asha Sharma announced the news on her personal X account, also congratulating the hard-working team at Activision. This is a historic milestone that puts the franchise in elite standing before the launch of the feature film in 2028, which is not expected to be a specific adaptation of one of the games. It also took Call of Duty only 24 years to reach this milestone, meaning the franchise is averaging nearly $2 billion in revenue per year.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
  honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
  against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
  then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
  and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
  work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
  because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
  defend it past the point of reason.
• You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
  an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
  rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
  administrative error.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
  The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
  bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
  and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
  and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

How Are People Liking ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has received mostly positive reviews from fans on the campaign side of things. Most players agree that it’s one of the best campaigns Call of Duty has put out in years, as it gets back to the roots of what fans want from a COD campaign without being too over the top. As to be expected, some fans are ripping into the skill-based matchmaking aspect of multiplayer, which prevents players of nearly all skill levels from achieving a kill-death-ratio of over one. Only time will tell how the game will be remembered over time compared to other installments.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the new Call of Duty movie coming to theaters in 2028.

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