Tag: American Sniper
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January 2019 Gets the New Year Off to a Slow Start
The new year got off to a bit of a slow start with January 2019 delivering $812.4 million in calendar grosses, ranking as the 11th best January of all-time, -15.5% behind last year. Notable is the absence of a new Star Wars film carrying over from a December release, something the last three Januarys all…
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Box Office: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Cracks $3.7 Million on Thursday Night
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” cracked $3.7 million at 3,200 North American sites on Thursday night.Universal’s “Glass” brings together the narratives of Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable,” which was released in 2000, and 2016’s “Split.” The supernatural thriller unites stars Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Sarah Paulson. The film is set to open in 3,841 locations…
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Sound Mixer Gregg Rudloff Dies at 63
Gregg Rudloff, who won Academy Awards for sound mixing “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Matrix,” and “Glory” and was nominated four other times, died in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. He was 63.A representative for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office told Variety that the office is treating his death as a possible suicide with…
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‘World War Z’ Writer Makes Directing Debut on Fact-Based ‘Mosul,’ Shot in Secret in Morocco
Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan is making his directorial debut with “Mosul,” a film about a Swat team’s desperate fight to rid the Iraq city of Isis militants that shot in secret in Morocco last spring with a local cast.“Mosul,” for which Carnahan wrote the screenplay, explores the true story of an elite police unit made…
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Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper Reunite in Trailer for Drug Drama ‘The Mule’
Clint Eastwood is full of regret and sorrow in the first trailer for “The Mule,” returning to the screen for the first time since 2012’s “Trouble With the Curve.”“I was a terrible father and a terrible husband,” he says in a voiceover. “Family’s the most important thing. Don’t do what I did.”Besides taking stock of…
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Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born”
Sneak Peek the new musical feature “A Star Is Born“, produced and directed by “American Sniper” star Bradley Cooper in a modern remake of the 1937 movie, starring Cooper, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle and Sam Elliott, opening October 5, 2018:”…a hard-drinking country musician (Cooper) first discovers then falls in love with a…
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Nicolas Cage Joins Thriller ‘Grand Isle’
Nicolas Cage is to star in a crime thriller about a man framed for murder.The Oscar-winning actor has been attached to star in ‘Grand Isle’ and will play a character named Walter, according to sources close to the production.The story centers on a father who is framed for murder and must prove his innocence through…
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‘Deadpool 2’ Crosses $300 Million – and Picks Up Baby Boomer Fans Too
On its sixth Friday in theaters, “
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‘American Sniper’ Actor Cory Hardrict Joins Scott Eastwood in ‘The Outpost’
“American Sniper” and “Edge of Tomorrow” actor Cory Hardrict is set to join Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom in the World War II pic “The Outpost.”Caleb Landry Jones is also set to star with Rod Lurie directing.The film is based on Jake Tapper’s book and will chronicle the true story of the 53 U.S. soldiers…
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Bradley Cooper in Talks to Join Clint Eastwood in Crime Drama ‘The Mule’
Bradley Cooper is in negotiations to star opposite Clint Eastwood in Warner Bros.’ crime drama The Mule.Eastwood is directing the project and is also starring, marking the first time since 2012’s Trouble with the Curve that the Hollywood legend appeared on screen.Cooper’s boarding reunites the two following their collaboration American Sniper, the war drama that…