Category: Movie News
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ takes off at UK-Ireland box office with £11.2m opening weekend
The action sequel set a record opening for Paramount in the territory.Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (May 27-May 29) Total gross to date Week 1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) £11.2m £15.9m 1 2. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney) £1.37m £37.7m 4 3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) £467,496 £2.88m 3 4.…
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Ethan Hawke Had Plenty Of Reasons To Be Scared About Saying Yes To Sinister
June 24, 2022 will see the release of “The Black Phone,” director Scott Derrickson adaptation of a short story of the same name from Joe Hill’s 2005 collection, “20th Century Ghosts.” The film follows young Finney Shaw (Mason Thomas), who is abducted by a masked man known only as The Grabber (Ethan Hawke). Held captive…
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Top Gun: Maverick breaks box office records on opening weekend
Star Tom Cruise had his first 100m weekend and the belated sequel is fourth biggest opening since pandemic beganTop Gun: Maverick has outperformed expectations at the global box office, taking 248m (£196m) worldwide.The film, which sees the return of Tom Cruise’s hotshot pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, after the character was first introduced in 1986’s Top…
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The Match Factory sells Lukas Dhont’s Cannes winner ‘Close’ to 100 territories (exclusive)
Grand Prix winner scores sales around the world.The Match Factory has closed deals in around 100 territories for Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s drama Close, which won a grand prix at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (May 28).In Europe, the feature has sold to Germany and Austria (Pandora), Baltics (A-One), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Artcam),…
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Varun Dhawan, Kartik Aaryan, Tiger Shroff Star in Multi-Film Nadiadwala-Amazon Prime Video Licensing Deal
Amazon Prime Video India has signed a worldwide exclusive multi-film licensing deal with Sajid Nadiadwala’s Bollywood production house Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment (Nge).Nge’s upcoming slate includes “Bawaal,” starring Varun Dhawan (“Coolie No. 1”) and Janhvi Kapoor (“Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl”), directed by Nitesh Tiwari (“Dangal”). Dhawan also stars in “Sanki” alongside Parineeti Chopra (“Saina”), directed…
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‘Rebel’ Review: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah’s Radicalization Drama Pulsates With Terrible Inevitability [Cannes]
As a procedural drama centrally interested in the radicalization of a young Muslim boy in Belgium, Adil & Bilall’s “Rebel” pulsates with terrible inevitability. Falling behind at school, with an adored older brother already having made the trip to Syria and a trafficker whispering in his ear, it’s less a question of if Nassim is…
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Guardians Of The Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Signals A Fresh Direction For Epcot, Without Forgetting Its Past
Walt Disney World diehards visiting Epcot this summer will spy an eye-popping new landmark when they pass through the park’s gates. Not far from the iconic Spaceship Earth sphere sits a full-scale Nova Corps Starblaster. For the uninitiated, the vibrant yellow-and-blue craft is a replica of one of the star-cruising vehicles from Marvel’s “Guardians of…
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20 Scariest Movies to Stream on Netflix Right Now
As Netflix’s library of original films grows by the day, finding the right movie to watch can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Factor in the fact that horror is one of the cheapest genres to produce, and you’re left with a tsunami of titles that sometimes seem indistinguishable from one another.…
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‘Top Gun 2’ Soars Over Memorial Day Box Office With 124 Million Three-Day Haul, Tom Cruise’s Best Opening Ever
After 36 years, Tom Cruise’s daredevil Navy flyboy Pete Mitchell apparently still felt the need…the need for speed. And so, too, did nostalgic moviegoers who flooded the nation’s multiplexes over Memorial Day weekend to propel the star’s long-delayed sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, into the box-office stratosphere with a 124 million domestic haul between Friday and…