Realizing this all must mean something, they decide to spend their last night together by going into the desert on their bikes to investigate, disguising their trip as a sleepover while recording the experience on various cameras. Horn wanted to follow the same guiding idea that had served him so well at Warner Bros. The website surveyed 124 critics with a determined rating average of 5.37 out of 10.

As of 27 December 2014[update], the film had grossed $38.9 million in the U.S. and $6.4 million overseas, for a total of $45.3 million worldwide, against a $13 million budget, making it a moderate box office success.
That said, Relativity still went to work.

The group find the "construction site" where Munch is being interrogated and Echo is being experimented on, but get caught by the same construction worker. There the object starts to repair itself, the process involving telekinetically taking various objects, altering them, and attaching them to itself, and the boys find it contains a cybernetic alien. Trusting Echo, Alex takes him down the hole made by the key. Given that there’s not a live-action family movie due in theaters for a little while, even more so…. Its DVD price is just a couple of bucks and in the midst of summer, few parents won’t see that as a good deal to buy themselves 90 minutes of peace and quiet. Yet the studio got rid of the movie. As The Hollywood Reporter noted back in 2014, Earth to Echo’s new parents “chose to do significant work on it.” A January 2014 release date was abandoned, and a summer 2014 unveiling was earmarked instead. Relativity stumped up for a couple of days of reshoots, and funded several more months of behind-the-scenes work on the movie.
Although Tuck and Munch suspect Alex allowed himself to be caught because he is angry at Tuck for accidentally abandoning him, Emma goes back in to rescue Alex, with Echo helping by causing a distraction for the security guard.

After Horn's succession as Chairman and viewing a final cut of the film, he decided to put the film into turnaround. The project put on by the agents is abandoned but Alex and Munch relocate anyway, as their families have already bought new homes elsewhere. There were 2 Echo satellites, which were passive (the signal would bounce back to earth like a mirror). Stopping at a restaurant, the four talk and reconcile before a "construction worker" arrives, and after using an unknown device, takes the backpack with Echo inside and loads it into a truck. Some of those films failed, but the ones that hit big – Harry Potter, The Dark Knight Trilogy – hit really, really big. There’s some wiggle room from year to year, but that’s the basis of the films that Disney now puts out. But notably, the film didn’t make it to cinemas with a Disney logo on it.

Emma soon joins the team as they go to a bar, then an arcade, to allow the object to keep repairing itself while Emma finds out the object is not merely a spaceship, but a key to one.

Tuck, Alex, and Munch eventually make it to the area in the desert and follow the map to a dusty, rusted object under an electrical tower. At the arcade, Alex is caught by a security guard. There wasn’t an awful lot of direct family movie live-action competition in the summer of 2014. The film is shot in a found footage style through many perspectives, as the story revolves around four neighborhood friends who find a robotic, telekinetic alien in the desert they call Echo while being hunted by dangerous forces who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the innocent creature. Directed by Dave Green.

Director Dave Green moved on to make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, whilst Relativity Media is still going, but was damaged following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in 2015. Editor, author, writer, broadcaster, Costner fanatic. Is there a earth to echo 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s a found footage live-action family movie that basically reimagines the plot of E.T. But despite a well-funded marketing campaign, Earth to Echo opened to a disappointing $13.6 million five-day gross in the U.S.

They also believe that if the spaceship of which the key is for, wherever it is, takes off, it will kill the neighborhood residents.

With Teo Halm, Astro, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt. This was ahead of Relativity’s financial, er, ‘problems’ (one of the reasons you haven’t seen the long-mooted reboot of The Crow is Relativity’s bottoming out of its bank account).

[8], "Why 'Earth to Echo' Moved From Studio to Studio", "Relativity To Premiere 'Earth To Echo' At LA Film Festival", "EARTH TO ECHO trailer and poster debut! But the problem was, commercially at least, Disney had called it right. That’s not supposed to sound churlish: Animated films are all about human beings and their ideas. The overall head of Disney at the time the film went into production was Rich Ross, but by the time it was completed, it was Alan Horn who was sitting behind the head honcho’s desk. The Extra Terrestrial relatively close to its core. [4] After being delayed, Earth to Echo premiered on June 14, 2014 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and opened in theaters across the U.S. on July 2, 2014. The one upside is that Earth to Echo is a fine family movie that the majority of people are going to have fun discovering for the first time.