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Arrival is another Villeneuve masterpiece
Real twist endings, the kind that make you reconsider the entire movie, have been out of style for years now, but new alien contact film Arrival is bringing them back. Arrival is set after 12 space ships touch down on Earth. To address … Continue reading
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Tagged #china, #denis villeneuve, #jeremy renner, #sicario, Amy Adams, Arrival, Johann Johannsson, Little green men
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The Möbius strip: Finding Dory takes several animated film records, Hollywood mourns Anton Yelchin
As expected, Finding Dory took over the record for opening weekend for an animated movie with $135 million. The other newcomer, Central Intelligence, got off to a modest $35.5 million and is looking at a domestic run of more than $100 million. None of … Continue reading
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The Möbius strip: Conjuring soars, Warcraft disappoints domestically but smashes records in China
While Hollywood’s sequel culture is under intense scrutiny, The Conjuring 2 did fantastic this weekend, opening at no. 1 with $40.4 million. Really the bigger story is Warcraft. After 10 years in Development Hell, the movie based on one of the most popular video … Continue reading
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Tagged #china, #industrial light and magic, #jurassic world, #martin scorsese, #Netflix, #stanley kubrick, #suicide squad, #theconjuring2, #warcraft, #world of warcraft, binge-watching, captain america: civil war, duncan jones, Ed and Lorraine Warren, finding dory, finding finding dory, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, inglorious basterds, John Travolta's career isn't over -- studios just can't market him anymore, Key and Peele, Kubrick Scorsese supercut, One for the studio one for me, Suicide Squad is rated PG-13, superhero genre fatigue, the box office is down this year, The Conjuring 2, The Enfield Poltergeist, the master, The MPAA is a bunch of toothless feckless half-wits, video essays, Warcraft disappoints domestically, Warcraft smashes Chinese box office records
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The Möbius strip: The Martian takes another crown as another weekend flops
The Martian won the weekend again as all three new releases laid eggs. The weekend’s total, $70.1 million, is the year’s lowest, though this is predictable for a Halloween weekend- Box Office Mojo Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock vehicles Burnt and Our Brand is … Continue reading
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Tagged #20th Century Fox, #aloha, #ant-man, #aziz ansari, #Batfleck, #batman vs superman, #Ben Affleck, #black lives matter, #burnt, #china, #daniel craig, #dirty grandpa, #django unchained, #don bluth, #dragon's lair, #george clooney, #harrison ford, #hillary clinton, #hurricane sandy, #imax, #indiana jones, #jamie foxx, #jar jar binks is an abomination, #jem and the holograms, #jurrassic world, #lisa kudrow, #martin scorsese, #noriyoshi ohrai, #our brand is crisis, #paramount, #parks and recreation, #quinten tarantino, #robert de niro, #roman polanski, #sandra bullock, #sicario, #spectre, #star wars, #steve jobs, #suffragette, #suicide squad, #the empire strikes back, #the exorcist, #the force awakens, #the graduate, #the hateful 8, #the martian, #until dawn, #william friedkin, #zac efron, bradley cooper, Jason Blum, Transformers
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