Archive for March, 2015

‘Home’ beats ‘Get Hard’ at US box-office

Sunday, March 29th, 2015

Rihanna’s Home has topped the US box office in its debut weekend.

The children’s animation that also stars Jim Parsons took $54m, beating Will Ferrell’s comedy Get Hard.

Get Hard debuts to $34.6m, while last week’s number one Insurgent falls to three with $22m.

Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella falls to four with $17.5m, as horror film It Follows climbs to number five.

Kingsman: The Secret Service earns $3m and falls to six, and Run All Night takes number seven.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel falls to number eight, as Do You Believe?‘s $2.1m leaves it at number nine.

Finally, Sean Penn’s The Gunman rounds out the top ten with earnings of $2m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for March 27-29 is as follows:
1. (-) Home – $54,000,000
2. (-) Get Hard – $34,610,000
3. (1) The Divergent Series: Insurgent – $22,075,000
4. (2) Cinderella – $17,515,000
5. (19) It Follows – $4,021,000
6. (5) Kingsman: The Secret Service – $3,050,000
7. (3) Run All Night – $2,205,000
8. (7) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – $2,185,000
9. (6) Do You Believe? – $2,150,000
10. (4) The Gunman – $2,045,000

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Insurgent tops US box office in debut weekend

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

The Divergent Series: Insurgent has won the US box office in its debut weekend at cinemas.

The science fiction sequel – which stars Kate Winslet and Shailene Woodley – earned over $54 million, pushing Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella off the top spot.

Cinderella is down to two with $34.49m, while Run All Night is down to three with $5.1m.

Elsewhere, Sean Penn’s action thriller The Gunman is new at four with $5m and Kingsman: The Secret Service is at five with $4.6m.

Do You Believe? is new at six with $4m, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is at seven with $3.45m and Focus is at eight with $3.3m.

Hugh Jackman’s Chappie is at nine with $2.65m and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water rounds out the top ten with $2.35m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for March 20-22 is as follows:
1. (-) The Divergent Series: Insurgent – $54,025,000
2. (1) Cinderella – $34,492,000
3. (2) Run All Night – $5,115,000
4. (-) The Gunman – $5,009,000
5. (3) Kingsman: The Secret Service – $4,600,000
6. (- Do You Believe? – $4,000,000
7. (6) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – $3,450,000
8. (4) Focus – $3,300,000
9. (5) Chappie – $2,650,000
10. (7) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $2,350,000

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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies: Review

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
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Cinderella debuts top of US Box Office

Sunday, March 15th, 2015

Cinderella has won the US box office in its debut weekend at cinemas.

The Kenneth Branagh directed fantasy film earned over $70 million, pushing Hugh Jackman’s Chappie off the top spot.

Elsewhere, Run All Night is new at two with $11m, while Kingsman: The Secret Service is at three with $6.2m.

Focus falls two to four with $5.805m, last week’s number one Chappie falls to five with $5.8m and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is down three to six with $5.7m.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is down two to seven with $4.1m, while McFarland, USA is down one to eight with $3.69.

Bradley Cooper’s American Sniper is at nine with $2.93m and The DUFF rounds out the top ten with $2.9m.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for March 13-15 is as follows:
1. (-) Cinderella – $70,053,000
2. (-) Run All Night – $11,015,000
3. (4) Kingsman: The Secret Service – $6,200,000
4. (2) Focus – $5,805,000
5. (1) Chappie – $5,800,000
6. (3 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – $5,700,000
7. (5) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $4,100,000
8. (7) McFarland, USA – $3,692,000
9. (11) American Sniper – $2,930,000
10. (9) The DUFF – $2,900,000

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Hugh Jackman’s ‘Chappie’ tops US box office

Monday, March 9th, 2015

Chappie has won the US box office in its debut weekend at cinemas.

The Hugh Jackman-starring sci-fi earned $13,300,000, pushing Will Smith’s Focus off the top spot.

Focus falls to two after taking just over $10m, while The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel debuts at number three with $8.6m.

Colin Firth’s Kingsman: The Secret Service falls to number four with $8.3m, as The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water‘s $7m sends it to number five.

Erotic drama Fifty Shades of Grey drops to six with $5.6m, and Disney’s McFarland, USA falls one space to seven with takings of around $5.3m.

The Lazarus Effect takes number eight, while The DUFF is at nine.

Vince Vaughn’s business trip-comedy Unfinished Business rounds out the top ten films, taking $4.8m in its debut weekend at cinemas.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for March 6-8 is as follows:
1. (-) Chappie – $13,300,000
2. (1) Focus – $10,020,000
3. (-) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – $8,600,000
4. (2) Kingsman: The Secret Service – $8,300,000
5. (3) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $7,000,000
6. (4) Fifty Shades of Grey – $5,604,000
7. (6) McFarland, USA – $5,318,000
8. (5) The Lazarus Effect – $5,100,000
9. (8) The DUFF – $4,850,000
10. (-) Unfinished Business – $4,800,000

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Team behind ‘Jurassic World’ to produce new sci-fi thriller

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

DreamWorks has picked up the next project from director Colin Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly

The “Jurassic World” team of director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly have re-conceived their earlier script “The Ambassador” as a new project titled “Intelligent Life,” which has been acquired by DreamWorks, an individual familiar with the deal has told TheWrap.

“The Ambassador” followed a UN worker tasked to represent humankind if aliens ever made contact with Earthlings, who then falls in love with an otherworldly woman.

The latest incarnation of the project takes that kernel of an idea and expands upon it, so while “Intelligent Life” remains an ambitious sci-fi thriller, it is expected to require a larger budget than “The Ambassador.”

Frank Marshall is producing “Intelligent Life” with Trevorrow and Peter Saraf and Marc Turteltaub of Big Beach, which backed the director’s first feature “Safety Not Guaranteed.” Connolly will executive produce the movie, reuniting him and Trevorrow with Steven Spielberg, who serves as an executive producer on “Jurassic World,” which Universal opens on June 12.

“Intelligent Life” is also the first project DreamWorks has acquired since Michael Wright joined the company as CEO.

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Neill Blomkamp: “I fucked up Elysium”

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Neill Blomkamp has admitted that he feels he “fucked up” Elysium.

The Chappie director claimed that “[he] just didn’t make a good enough film” when working on the 2013 Matt Damon sci-fi.

Elysium is set in 2159 and features a spaceship full of ultra rich passengers flying over a poverty-stricken earth.

Speaking to Uproxx about Elysium, Blomkamp said: “I feel like I fucked it up.

“I feel like, ultimately, the story is not the right story. I still think the satirical idea of a ring, filled with rich people, hovering above the impoverished Earth, is an awesome idea. I love it so much, I almost want to go back and do it correctly.

“But I just think the script wasn’t… I just didn’t make a good enough film is ultimately what it is. I feel like I executed all of the stuff that could be executed, like costume and set design and special effects, very well.

“But, ultimately, it was all resting on a somewhat not totally formed skeletal system, so the script just wasn’t there; the story wasn’t fully there.”

It was announced this year that the Alien series will continue under Blomkamp’s stewardship.

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Heist thriller ‘Focus’ beats 50 Shades at US box office

Sunday, March 1st, 2015

Focus has won the US box office in its debut weekend at cinemas.

The Will Smith-Margot Robbie heist thriller earned $19.1 million, ending Fifty Shades of Grey‘s two-week run in the top spot.

Fifty Shades fell to fourth place with $10.9 million, adding to its total earnings of $147.7 million. The erotic adaptation stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, who hosted Saturday Night Live last night.

Colin Firth’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water are unchanged from last week.

Kingsman holds second place with $11.8 million and total earnings of $85.6 million, followed by The SpongeBob Movie in third place with $11.2 million and total earnings of $140 million.

The only other new release this weekend was Olivia Wilde’s thriller The Lazarus Effect, landing in fifth place with $10.6 million. McFarland, USA slips to sixth place.

Still Alice, starring this year’s Oscar winner Julianne Moore, moves up two to ninth place, with $2.6 million and total earnings of $11.9 million.

Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated American Sniper this week drops one spot to seventh place, with weekend takings of $7.7 million and total earnings of $331.1 million.

The DUFF and Hot Tub Time Machine 2 make up the top ten.

The US weekend box office Top 10 for February 27-March 1 is as follows:
1. (-) Focus – $19,100,000
2. (2) Kingsman: The Secret Service – $11,750,000
3. (3) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $11,200,000
4. (1) Fifty Shades of Grey – $10,927,000
5. (-) The Lazarus Effect – $10,600,000
6. (4) McFarland, USA – $7,797,000
7. (6) American Sniper – $7,700,000
8. (5) The DUFF – $7,150,000
9. (11) Still Alice – $2,695,000
10. (7) Hot Tub Time Machine 2 – $2,400,000

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