Apple has certainly carved itself a market for selling extremely well-made products at ludicrously high prices. Given an audience willing to fork out eye-watering amounts for its laptops and phones, it’s perhaps not surprising that the company assumed it could do the same in the cursed world of VR with the $3,500…
The box office battle royale between Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Mufasa: The Lion King continued this holiday week, with Deadline reporting that the Disney prequel grossed $10.3 million to Sonic’s $8.95 million. However, in terms of totals, Mufasa is trailing Sonic, with $138 million domestically to the latter’s $160.4 million. Moana 2 was in third place, with a $5.1 million gross, although it was nearly edged out by Nosferatu, with the Robert Eggers film making $4.96 million, with a $53 million tally. That makes it Eggers’s highest-grossing film to date, beating The Northman’s $34.2 million domestic take by a long shot.
Wicked wasn’t too far behind, with a $4.63 New Year’s gross adding to its $437 million total, despite now being available on PVOD (a move that’s raising eyebrows, as the film is still brought in huge theatrical grosses). A Complete Unknown was in 6th place with $3.1 million, for a $31.7 million total. By the end of the weekend, it should be able to pass The Menu (which earned $38.5 million) to become Searchlight’s highest-grossing film since the Disney merger in 2019.
As we head into another weekend, no one expects big changes in the top 5. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 usually wins the top spot on the weekend, and it should be able to make $20 million this weekend. Mufasa shouldn’t be too far behind, with about $18 million. However, Nosferatu, which has been gaining ground all week, should be able to move up to third place, with a $14 million gross, while Moana 2 should hit fourth place with about $10 million. Wicked should be in fifth place with $9 million and would likely beat Moana were it not for the PVOD release.
Here are our predictions:
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Before Balatrothere was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real or virtual. But that hasn’t…
Before Balatrothere was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real or virtual. But that hasn’t…
Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun caught a lot of attention with their debut feature We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. The film even caught the attention of Emma Stone, who produced Schoenbrun’s second feature, I Saw the TV Glow – which didn’t impress our review Chris Bumbray (you can read his 5/10 review at THIS LINK), but did earn praise from Martin Scorsese. Now, film critic Siddhant Adlakha has taken to social media to reveal that, during a Q&A, Schoenbrun revealed their third film will be called Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Even better than the title is the fact that Schoenbrun described the idea as being like “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.”
In case you missed it, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. It told the story of “Marianne, a female painter, who is commissioned to paint a portrait of Heloise, an aristocratic woman, in a wedding dress. They soon fall in love with each other but cannot unite.” And Friday the 13th sequels – well, we all know what they’re about, don’t we? A slasher chopping people up, usually in a woodsy setting.
As for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Coming Soon reports that Schoenbrun told The New Yorker that it will honor and critique the serial killer genre. Schoenbrun also revealed to fellow filmmaker Gregg Araki (in an interview conducted for Filmmaker Magazine) that the movie will be “all about sex—essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition. Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual—I had plenty of desire—but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films. … This is literally what my next movie is about, learning to enjoy sex. Just a fun movie about learning how to overcome sexual trauma and stop dissociating during queer sex.” With, we assume, some slasher murders thrown into the mix. An actual plot synopsis has not yet been revealed.
Have you seen We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and/or I Saw the TV Glow, and does Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma sound like an interesting project to you? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Despite taking a darker tone with each iteration, David Fincher is one of the last filmmakers you’d expect to see at the helm of a Harry Potter movie. Famously known for directing stand-out thrillers like Seven, Fight Club, and Zodiac, Fincher’s style promotes a gritty, scarred look with film grain, imperfections, and striking mood lighting. Harry Potter’s journey to defeat Voldemort and prevent Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from falling into ruin takes many dark turns. However, there’s still something about Fincher’s sensibilities that makes the thought of him tackling a Potter film perplexing. Then again, what do I know? According to David Fincher, he met with Warner Bros. about directing a movie in the Harry Potter series, though the project never materialized.
“I was asked to come in and talk to them about how I would do ‘Harry Potter,’” David Fincher told Variety while promoting the upcoming 4K release of 1995’s Seven. “I remember saying, ‘I just don’t want to do the clean Hollywood version of it. I want to do something that looks a lot more like ‘Withnail and I,’ and I want it to be kind of creepy.’” He said Warner Bros. had something more traditional in mind for their series of adaptations of author J.K. Rowling’s best-selling young adult books about the eponymous wizard. “They were like, ‘We want Thom Browne schooldays by way of ‘Oliver’.’”
The Harry Potter franchise is currently being developed for a series adaptation at HBO. The show aims to include diverse casting, giving each book in J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy saga room to breathe. The wizarding world of Harry Potter offers filmmakers a seemingly limitless playground, with magic, mischief, and a large cast of evolving characters. The thought of Fincher playing in Rowling’s arena is exciting, though he’s not exactly the type of filmmaker to conform to studio mandates. How dark and violent would David Fincher’s Harry Potter movie become? Would he surprise everyone and go in a lighter, more fanciful direction? We’ll likely never know, as Fincher’s Harry Potter pitch was rejected, and he’s moved on to projects that better suit his sensibilities.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown up at one point, too.…
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown up at one point, too.…
Deadline reports that filming has wrapped on a serial killer action thriller called The Neglected, which was shot in Mississippi and stars Josh Duhamel (Shotgun Wedding). Duhamel’s co-stars include Dylan Sprouse (The Duel), Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds), Jeremy London (Mallrats), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), and Elena Sanchez (Devil’s Peak).
Directed and produced by David Lipper, who also crafted the script with Adam G. Levine, The Neglected tells the story of Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel), who is about to retire when he finds out on his last day of work that a serial killer has buried his son alive. He then races against the clock to solve three murders and find his son’s location before he runs out of air.
BondIt Media Capital provided the financing. Lipper is producing the film alongside Robert A. Daly Jr. of Latigo, Mark Canton, Dorothy Canton, Denise Loren, Mark Fasano, and Ryan Winterstern. Executive producers include Roman Kopelevich, Justin Levine, Timothy Alek Mulley, Kimberly Hines, Andrew Stevens, Rick Moore, and Walter Josten, plus Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, and Grady Craig of BondIt Media Capital. Kipp Tribble is the co-producer and Oliver Scott the co-executive producer. Red Sea Media is handling the distribution sales.
Daly Jr. told Deadline, “David Lipper, the director, has championed this project for years. We could not be more excited to see this project come to life.” Lipper added, “I think audiences are going to relate to the big question facing Shaw (Duhamel) in this film: who and what have we neglected in our lives and what is the cause and effect of that?“
Lipper, who has more than 30 years of screen acting credits to his name, made his feature directorial debut with the 2021 horror film Death Link and has followed that up with 2022 horror film Wolf Mountain and the 2024 action comedy thriller Murder at Hollow Creek. The Neglected is his fourth feature.
Does The Neglected sound interesting to you? What do you think of the cast that was assembled for this serial killer action thriller? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.
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Period horror often has a tough hill to climb within the modern landscape of cinema. Younger generations prefer a more energetic pacing in short bursts so a drawn-out film that relies on tension and dread can be a tough sell. Thankfully, I’m an old man and absolutely love any horror film that can bring me on a journey through hell, regardless of the time period. And thankfully The Damned is able to utilize the setting and give us a glimpse at a time that passed while walking the line of myth. I really enjoyed the film myself.
Actor Odessa Young and Director Thordur Palsson were gracious enough to talk to me about their film The Damned. We got into the very harsh conditions in which they filmed in as well as the difficulties of something as simple as getting equipment to their filming location. But I was surprised to hear how much comradery was formed on the set, as the cast and crew bandied together to make the most of the tough conditions. This was a great talk and you can check it out in its entirety in the video embedded above.
THE DAMNED plot: The Damned is a tense psychological horror film that follows a 19th-century widow who is tasked with making an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing outpost during the middle of an especially cruel winter. With provisions running low, Eva and her close-knit community must choose between rescuing the shipwrecked crew and prioritizing their own survival. Facing the consequences of their decision and tormented by guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices.
THE DAMNED IS PLAYING IN SELECT THEATERS ON JANUARY 3RD, 2024. Read our review HERE!
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