Good or bad taste is difficult to define, but easy to point out, and Alien: Romulus, from Uruguayan director Fede Álvarez (who famously delivered a fantastic Evil Dead flick over a decade ago), offers a bizarre mix of both. It’s clear that Álvarez wants to hearken back to the analog, tactile sci-fi vibes of the…
Good or bad taste is difficult to define, but easy to point out, and Alien: Romulus, from Uruguayan director Fede Álvarez (who famously delivered a fantastic Evil Dead flick over a decade ago), offers a bizarre mix of both. It’s clear that Álvarez wants to hearken back to the analog, tactile sci-fi vibes of the…
As expected, after several weeks at the top of the box office heap, Disney’s superhero blockbuster, Deadpool & Wolverine, finally dropped out of the top spot this weekend. According to Deadline‘s numbers, it was beaten at the box office by Fede Álvarez’s well-reviewed Alien: Romulus, which opened right within our expectations with a $41 million opening.
While somewhat modest by tentpole standards, this opening is actually the second biggest ever for an Alien movie, behind Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which opened to $51 million in 2012. Given the modest $80 million budget, Romulus will no doubt be seen as a major win for the studio, especially given that it’s having an unexpectedly huge weekend internationally, with a $108 million global debut. No one expected it to do that kind of business overseas, but it’s playing extremely well in China, despite a general downturn at the box office there as far as American films go.
While only in second place, Deadpool & Wolverine still posted a terrific $29 million weekend, with it now having a mighty $543 million domestic gross. Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us also cleaned up at the box office this weekend, making a terrific $24 million, which is a modest 52% drop since last weekend. This one is turning out to be a date night favourite despite rumoured strife behind the scenes…
However, the box office picture was a lot less rosy for Eli Roth’s video game adaptation, Borderlands. It posted a disastrous 74% drop, grossing only $2.2 million this weekend—landing it in ninth place. With a $13 million domestic gross, this will undoubtedly go down as one of the worst box office disasters ever.
Meanwhile, Universal’s Twisters, despite already being available on VOD, made $9.2 million this weekend, for a strong domestic total of $237 million. Another box office surprise was the 15th-anniversary re-release of Coraline, which posted huge numbers for Fathom Events, grossing $8.3 million. It ate into some of the family audience for hold-overs Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, with the former making $5.5 million in sixth place, with a $339 million total, and the latter $2.9 million for a huge $641 million total. Between them was M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap, which grossed $3.25 million for a $35 million domestic total, which has to be disappointing for distributor Warner Bros. The top ten was rounded out by another Bollywood film, Stree 2, which made $2 million.
With the dog days of summer upon us, next weekend promises to be a quiet one at the box office, with Lionsgate’s reboot of The Crow and the Channing Tatum thriller Blink Twice vying for the top spot at the box office. Do you think either has a chance of dethroning Alien: Romulus? Let us know in the comments.
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Deadpool & Wolverine has topped the box office for the last month. It’s the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, both domestically and internationally, and the reviews and audience reaction have been top-shelf all around. Yet, as everyone who knows anything about superhero movies knows, Ryan Reynolds had a few hiccups before making it into the big time with the Deadpool franchise. There was X-Men: Origins – Wolverine, in which he played The Merc With a Mouth (or, in this case, without a mouth) for the first time, but an even bigger disaster was his time as Hal Jordan in Green Lantern.
The year was 2011, and at the time Green Lantern was considered one of the hottest properties in the business. Every up-and-coming actor of the era, including Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto and even Justin Timberlake coveted that role. Ryan Reynolds nabbed it, but it proved to be a mixed blessing. Yes, the movie was a giant, embarrassing flop which arguably set Reynolds’s career back several years, but it certainly wasn’t all bad. How so? Well, Reynolds met the love of his life, Blake Lively, on set, and over a decade later the two are still together. So even if it was a disaster, I bet Reynolds is still happy he did it. The career consequences probably were more dire for director Martin Campbell, who’s since stayed away from movies of this size (although he did direct one of the most underrated Jackie Chan movies ever – The Foreigner).
But, is it really all that bad? In this video by our DC superfan Paul Bookstabler, we take a deep dive into this much-mocked (including by Reynolds himself) superhero epic, pointing out some of the things people have forgotten, such as the fact that it sports an early role for Taika Waititi. Is there anything else about it that’s any good? Well, let’s take a deep dive, shall we?
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Yesterday, we celebrated the release of Alien: Romulus in theaters with our definitve (we hope) rankings of the Alien saga. Naturally, the feedback from fans was passionate, to say the least, so now it’s your turn. What’s the best Alien movie? Take our poll and let us know what you think is the all-time champ!
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Alain Delon, one of the biggest international movie stars of all time, has passed away at 88. The actor, who’d been in poor health in recent years, is widely considered one of the most iconic French stars ever. First rising to fame as part of a new crop of actors during the French New Wave, Delon was the first person to play Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley in Purple Noon, while also starring in classics such as The Leopard, Rocco and His Sisters and many more.
Yet, it was his role as the cold, calculating hitman in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai which remains the part he’s arguably best known for. Playing an impeccably dressed killer named Jeff, who is double-crossed by his employers, pretty much every hitman movie in the last fifty years owes a debt of gratitude to his performance. Chow Yun-Fat’s style in A Better Tomorrow and The Killer was heavily influenced by Delon (director John Woo worshipped Melville’s movies), and a line can be drawn straight from Delon in that film to Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies. As an aside, I actually went to see a 4K restoration of Le Samourai recently, at it still plays like gangbusters.
Given his ease with English, it wasn’t too long before Hollywood came calling, but Delon’s career in Hollywood never really took off, with him starring in movies like Texas Across the River (opposite Dean Martin) and the notoriously awful (but fun) Airport’79: The Concorde.
Even if his career in the US never really took off, his fame in France, much of Europe, and Asia never really dimmed. In the seventies and eighties, he reinvented himself as a tough guy action star, appearing in a slew of gangster and cop movies, including Borsellino (opposite the great Jean-Paul Belmondo), Three Men to Kill, Cop’s Story, and more. He stayed active in recent years, starring in supporting roles in film and on TV before being sidelined by poor health.
His family made the following statement on his passing to AFP News Agency: “Alain Fabien, Anouchka, Anthony, as well as (his dog) Loubo, are deeply saddened to announce the passing of their father. He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family.”
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We’re in the thick of summer right now, and while many of us are already looking forward to the cooler days and changing colors of fall, we shouldn’t miss the chance to snag some great games on the cheap as various platforms run their big summer sales. We’ll clue you in on some of the biggest deals on some of the best…
We’re in the thick of summer right now, and while many of us are already looking forward to the cooler days and changing colors of fall, we shouldn’t miss the chance to snag some great games on the cheap as various platforms run their big summer sales. We’ll clue you in on some of the biggest deals on some of the best…
Connections is all about finding things that don’t seem like they work well together, but do. Take Deadpool & Wolverine, for example, which is now the most successful R-rated movie of all time. Today’s Connections won’t earn you a cool billion dollars, and it’s not R-rated, but it’s here to present its usual…
Connections is all about finding things that don’t seem like they work well together, but do. Take Deadpool & Wolverine, for example, which is now the most successful R-rated movie of all time. Today’s Connections won’t earn you a cool billion dollars, and it’s not R-rated, but it’s here to present its usual…