The Denis Villeneuve-helmed blockbuster is set to draw a $5.58 million haul in its fourth week of release. That’s only a 28% drop-off from its previous weekend. The film has legs, despite the fact that it has been available to stream on HBO Max since its first week of release. As it stands, “Dune” has made over $300 million worldwide with a budget of $165 million (not counting marketing costs)....
I wouldn’t complain if it ends up being a serious Oscar contender come awards season. It’s the kind of narrative the Academy pays attention to: the first major indie film success of the pre-pandemic era, and this coming from a well-respected independent studio like A24. Michelle Yeoh could also nab a Best Actress nomination. As it keeps chugging along at the box-office, “Everything, Everywhere All At Once” isn’t quite losing steam just yet either....
From 2013 on, Bruce Willis’ career has been tanking. He’s all, but tapped out for a few years and decided to keep himself working by taking a few paycheck-driven roles. Sure, he’s attempted a comeback with 2019’s “Glass,” the sequel-of-sorts to Split and Unbreakable, and the artsy crime drama “Motherless Brooklyn,” but here’s yet another straight-to-VOD affair for Willis, this one is titled “Hard Kill.” In “Hard Kill,” an ex-marine has to get a team back together for one last mission against a terrorist who wants to destroy the world or something like that....
Perlman and, his “Hellboy” co-star, Selma Blair seem to be in agreement with my assessment; the pair took to social media to indirectly criticize the reboot. Blair reacted by posting a photo of herself kissing a poster of Perlman’s Hellboy. “This man, Ron Perlman,” Blair wrote on Instagram. “Forever my Red. You are always the realest deal, a diamond.” Perlman, meanwhile, posted a reminder on his Instagram that the del Toro original can be streamed on Netflix right now....
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The writer-director of “Two Lovers” recently told Variety “The critical establishment [of Cannes] is stuck in 1968. (…) They are protectors of the status quo.” And yet, Gray had the luxury of premiering his 2013 film “The Immigrant” during the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Gray was at the Marrakech Film Festival when he said those things about Cannes, reminiscing about his experience at the legendary festival: He continued to explain his thoughts by claiming that “‘The Immigrant’ was different from the all the other movies in competition that year....
Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck is a man in deep distress, living with his elderly mom in a dingy New York City apartment, while he struggles to keep his job as a commercial clown. It doesn’t help that Fleck is also consistently bullied everywhere he goes. This is after all New York City in 1981, with record crime rates and poverty, which has a co-worker giving Fleck a gun to protect himself, concerned that his eccentricities may get the wrong attention....
Director’s Jonathan Levine’s track record isn’t too bad either, he directed the stoner cancer comedy “50/50,” more successfully, to my eyes and ears at least, the stoner Christmas comedy “The Night Before,” which I predict will become some kind of cult comedy classic in the near future, if it hasn’t already. As for this latest film, it’s all about whether you want to believe that a schlub reporter (Rogen), can actually hook up with a politician (Theron) who is vying for Presidency....
Take, for example, actor-turned-director Fran Kranz’s “Mass,” which has four people sitting in a church anteroom and discussing a tragedy that connects them. “Mass” is so anti-cinematic, a sobering confessional set in a reverenced yet monotonous setting. It features four great performances, a downer of a topic and about a half dozen powerful monologues from its actors. The film is set inside an Episcopal church, in a bland, all-white room in the basement, where a mysterious meeting soon take place....
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Simon Rex plays has-been porn star Mikey Saber, who returns homeless and without money to his native Texas to get his mojo back, literally and figuratively. He knocks on the door of ex-wife Lexi (Bree Elrod) and his mother-in-law, but greeted with a nasty “Why are you here?” He’s low on money, and wants to crash with the two unemployed women who spend most of their days watching trashy daytime TV....
This is all-too-very-ridiculous. Changing history like this is detrimental to the film. Polanski will always be connected to “Rosemary’s Baby.” As you watch it today, you feel his presence in every frame. I fully condemn what he did in the summer of 1977, but you can’t ignore every pervert that took part in old projects. Is the goal? To permanently erase them from history? Because that can never happen. Here’s a little 101 refresher on the Polanski controversy: When Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby were expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, I was rather flabbergasted at how that committee could possibly perceive Polanski to be in the same predatorial league as Cosby....
“RRR” has become a sensation in the US, with incredible numbers on Netflix and critical backing to boot. Why India would decide on the unknown “Last Film Show” is mind-boggling. They even had the backup option of picking the Cannes-Sundance critical Darling “All That Breathes” … The only reasoning I can come up with is politics, pure and utter political selecting. It was just yesterday that Variety was predicting that “RRR” would garner at least two Oscar nomination, including one for International Film....
Part of its recipe for success was a perfectly timed release date coinciding with good word of mouth, and the other was the way Finn managed to make the familiar feel scary again. Finn has a gift for tension and he utilizes it wonderfully in “Smile.” It’s the kind of movie that should absolutely be seen in a packed cinema. This has led to “Smile,” which has a small budget of $17 million, grossing more than $200 million worldwide....
“Spider-Man: No Way Home‘“ nabbed the fourth best opening of all-time, right behind “Avengers: Endgame,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “The Force Awakens.” It has surpassed 2021 reigning champion “Black Widow” by close to $100 million. Unheard of. Simply impressive. Now, it’ll be interesting to see where cinemagoing goes from here in the next few weeks, there is most definitely a desire to watch tentpoles in theaters and the male under 35 demographic seems less scared by the virus than other demos....
During a recent interview with Sirius XM host John Fugelsang, Isaac mentioned that the relationship between Leia and Poe will continue through “Episode IX” thanks to the use of the previously shot footage. The bond between the two characters was supposed to appear in “The Force Awakens,” but was eventually cut from the final cut, alas, we will see it now in the final chapter. “I wasn’t surprised because I remember we were doing that, we worked a lot,” Isaac said of the scenes making their way back into the franchise....
“The Lighthouse” is Robert Eggers’ black-and-white nautical psychodrama. His much-anticipated follow-up to “The Witch” starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as men that end up at the mercy of nature. This descent into madness, set in 1890’s middle-of-nowhere Nova Scotia, has strangers Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Efraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) arriving at a remote lighthouse post for a four-week stint of physically exhausting work at a lighthouse. Efraim is an ex-lumberjack, but Thomas seems to be the one bossing him around, call it a matter of seniority, which Thomas seems to think he can use on his workmate....
There is a massive push right now from Netflix to make history with “The Power of the Dog.” Jane Campion’s film stands to become the first streaming movie in history to win the Best Picture Oscar. Netflix has attempted to win the category numerous times over these last 5 or so years, most notably with “The Irishman,” “Mank,” “Marriage Story,” and “Roma.” Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy
I initially thought that maybe they wanted to make more rounds at more film festivals before releasing the damn thing. The goal with a film such as this one is to build up a large cult following, and, make no mistake about it, there will be people that’ll respond to Mitchell’s film. I do wonder if this release date change means they’re making additional cuts to the film, which clocked in at 139 minutes during its Cannes premiere....
“Women Talking” is coming off a triumphant world premiere at Telluride, where Polley and its lead actresses were toasted to, what was supposed to be, Oscar glory. Now, I’m not too sure about that. “Women Talking” has screened twice for press so far here in Toronto and the enthusiasm is completely FLAT. It also went from having a pristine 90 on Metacritic to a 78 MC score. Polley’s film is having its official TIFF World premiere tomorrow evening, but most of the press will have left town by then....
