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First trailer for The Croods: A New Age
Peacock Kids, yes Peacock Kids, has debuted the first trailer for the animated sequel The Croods: A New Age [CROD2]. Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Clark Duke, and Cloris Leachman return as the stone age family. They’re joined a more advanced family played by Peter Dinklage, Leslie Mann, and Kelly Marie Tran. Originally set to open during Christmas, Universal moved The Croods: A New Age up to November 25th to possibly shorten the theatrical window before...
Read more »Box Score: Tenet and moviegoers stay timid at the box office
With little competition at the moribund weekend box office, Tenet [TENET] retained the top spot with an estimated $4.7 million. The time twister has earned just $36.1 million after three weekends.
The New Mutants [NMUTN] remained in second at $1.6 million, bringing its total to $17.7 million.
The weekend's sole wide release in 1724 theaters, Infidel [INFID] converted $1.5 million to deut in third place. Men made up 57% of the audience.
The Broken Hearts Gallery [BHGAL] slipped 29% in...
Read more »Whisper Numbers: Tenet to block Infidel from the box office altar
Moviegoers’ reluctance to patronize theaters during a pandemic to see Tenet [TENET] has forced studios to push back the release of big-budgeted movies from the Fall calendar. Even with little competition, Tenet may clock in just $4.5 million for a third weekend atop the box office.
The weekend’s only new wide release Infidel [INFID] stars Jim Caviezel [JCAVI]. The R-rated action thriller is the first film distributed by Cloudburst Entertainment, which was founded by former executives...
Read more »First trailer for The Last Shift
Sony has released the official trailer for the drama The Last Shift [LSHFT] starring Richard Jenkins [RJENK] and Shane Paul McGhie. Written and directed by Andrew Cohn, The Last Shift will open wide in 800 theaters on September 25th.
The Last Shift is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend...
Read more »First trailer for Synchronic
Wellgo USA has revealed the official trailer for the thriller Synchronic [SYNCH] starring Anthony Mackie [AMACK] and Jamie Dornan [JDORN]. Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Synchronic will open in theaters on October 23rd.
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest...
Read more »First trailer for The Father
Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the official trailer for the drama The Father [TFTHR]. Anthony Hopkins [AHOPK] stars as an independent man who's losing his memory but refuses all assistance from his daughter, played by Olivia Colman [OCOLM]. The Fatherarrives in theaters on December 18th.
Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily...
Read more »Box Score: Tenet wound up $6.7 million in its second weekend
Warner Bros. finally decided to reveal weekend box office numbers for Tenet [TENET], which retained first place with an estimated $6.7 million. The sci-fi spectacle declined 29% from its opening weekend, which would be around $9.4 million. Tenet has advanced $29.5 million.
The New Mutants [NMUTN] stayed in second place with $2.1 million, pushing its total to $15.3 million after three weekends.
Unhinged [UNHNG] remained at third with $1.5 million and $13.8 million overall.
The Broken...
Read more »Whisper Numbers: Tenet hangs in The Broken Hearts Gallery
Last weekend demonstrated most moviegoers prefer to stay away from theaters during a pandemic. Even after fudging the weekend box office with previous box office, Tenet [TENET] proved too embarrassingly low for Warner Bros. to break down the actual box office. Without the real numbers for opening weekend, it’s hard to project how Tenet will do during its second weekend. There’s some good news as Tenet will play at Drive-In theaters in the previously shutout Los Angeles County as well as...
Read more »First Trailer for Save Yourselves!
Bleecker Street has revealed the official trailer for the sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves! [SAVYS], set to open in theaters on October 2nd.
Jack (John Reynolds) and Su (Sunita Mani) are a Brooklyn couple who, like many of their friends, find themselves dependent on technology and unable to put down their phones. Fearing their mindless scrolling may impact their connection with each other, they seize the chance to head to an isolated cabin in the woods, vowing to unplug from the outside world...
Read more »First trailer for Freaky
Universal has unleashed the official trailer for the Blumhouse-produced horror comedy Freaky [FEAKY], a twisted take on the body-swap movie. Kathryn Newton stars as a teenage girl who switches bodies with a serial killer, played by Vince Vaughn [VVAUG]. From Happy Death Day writer-director Christopher Landon, Freaky opens on November 13th.
Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of Blissfield High and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when...
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