Tag: Blade Runner 2049
-
‘Dune’ Opens to $40 Million at the Box Office. Strong Enough for a Sequel?
“Dune,” an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, opened to $40 million at the North American box office. It’s a respectable start given the ongoing pandemic and the fact that “Dune,” like all Warner Bros. movies in 2021, premiered simultaneously on HBO Max, which might have taken a chunk out of overall ticket sales.Directed by…
-
Tales From The Box Office: How Blade Runner 2049 Became A Cautionary Tale
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)It is no secret that Hollywood loves a franchise play in the modern age. The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” and “Transformers,” among…
-
Are Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya Movie Stars? ‘Dune’ Will Tell Us This and Much More
“Dune” day has arrived in North America. For many film enthusiasts, it is the most-awaited movie of 2021; for the industry, even in a year of unknowns, it is one of its most uncertain events.Denis Villeneuve’s take on Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction novel vies with “No Time to Die” for most advance attention among October…
-
Sci-Fi Epic ‘Dune’ Arrives, Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ To Heat Up Specialty Box Office
The month of October has shown strong box office returns for franchises, with Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time To Die, and Halloween Kills all opening above $50 million and boasting numbers that would have been respectable even in a pre-pandemic marketplace. The domestic launch of Dune this weekend will test whether the same…
-
12 Awesome Sci-Fi Movies That Never Got Sequels
Many of the greatest science fiction franchises of all-time have benefitted from multiple cinematic installments that help expand their mythologies. Not every sequel to “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and “Alien” is great, but few would argue that their legacies are isolated to just one film. Occasionally, a sequel is even better than the original; recent…
-
The 14 Best Harrison Ford Movies Ranked
Few actors have played as many iconic roles as Harrison Ford. His return to Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and Rick Deckard in “Blade Runner 2049” proved he could seamlessly slip back into his best characters, and expectations are high as he picks up the bullwhip once more for “Indiana Jones 5.”Outside…
-
Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Movie ‘Blonde’ Starring Ana de Armas Delayed To 2022
Cuban actress Ana de Armas has been having a bit of a career renaissance lately after appearing in popular films such as Rian Johnson‘s “Knives Out” and Denis Villeneuve‘s “Blade Runner 2049.” She’ll be seen next in the final Daniel Craig outing as James Bond, “No Time To Die” this October. One of her big…
-
‘The Suicide Squad’ Star David Dastmalchian Doesn’t Just Love Comic Books – He’s Making Them, Too
Actor David Dastmalchian is a true comic book fan. And a few years ago, he fulfilled a life-long dream by collaborating with Dark Horse Comics to create his own series. The actor and writer, known for his roles in the Ant-Man movies, Blade Runner 2049, and The Suicide Squad, had been imagining the story of…
-
Dave Bautista Was Told He’s “Too Big” To Play A Zombie In ‘The Walking Dead’
Dave Bautista has had an interesting career to date. He started as a professional wrestler, as have several other action film stars, before really breaking out as one of the leads in Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” (which led to multiple MCU appearances). Then he’s shown up in Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049,” the…
-
Jared Leto Modeled His ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Contact Lenses After His Blind Performance Coach
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “The Little Things.”]Jared Leto participated in GQ magazine’s “Iconic Characters” video series and spoke about being the only one in the world who knows the answers to big questions posed in two of his films: “Blade Runner 2049” and “The Little Things.” The “Blade Runner” franchise has…