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Netflix Boards Alexandre Aja’s French Survival Thriller With Melanie Laurent
Netflix has boarded “O2,” a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja, whose credits include “Crawl,” “The Hills Have Eyes” and “Piranha 3D.”The film, which marks the return of Aja to a French-speaking project after a 15-year career in the U.S., is produced by Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide for Getaway Films.Mélanie Laurent […]
Continue readingWith ‘Stuber’ and ‘Crawl,’ Box Office Sags While Waiting for ‘The Lion King’
This weekend is a ‘tweener: the fallow period that lies between franchise titles. Last weekend was “
Continue reading‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ Repeats at #1, Nearing $850 Million Worldwide
It was a repeat weekend for last week’s top two films as Sony’s
Continue reading‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Bites Into Newcomers With $45 Million Weekend
Sony’s second weekend of “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is dominating North American moviegoing with around $45 million, taking in more than the combined totals of the next three titles — “Toy Story 4,” “Crawl” and “Stuber.”Should Saturday estimates hold, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” will wind up the weekend with $275 million in domestic grosses in […]
Continue readingBox Office: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Devouring ‘Crawl,’ ‘Stuber’
Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home is devouring newcomers Crawl and Stuber at the weekend box office.The superhero pic topped Friday with $13.4 million for a projected second weekend gross of $43 million-$45 million, putting its domestic total at nearly $275 million through Sunday. Far From Home is playing is 4,634 theaters.Disney and Pixar’s […]
Continue readingBarry Pepper on Battling Imaginary Alligators and Internal Demons in ‘Crawl’ [Interview]
“Here’s a little Easter egg for you guys,” Barry Pepper said without preamble to our table at the Crawl press junket in the Long Island Aquarium. The actor launched into a biblical passage for Matt 725, which is the license plate for his character Dave’s truck in the film. “‘And the rain descended and the […]
Continue readingCrawl review – brutal alligator horror is a snappy summer surprise
Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja returns to the water for a lean, suspenseful tale of a father and daughter trapped in a flooding, predator-filled houseWithholding a film from the press until the very day that it opens is usually the surest sign said film is a catastrophe. (The recent example of Luc Besson’s misfiring assassin […]
Continue readingBox Office: ‘Crawl’ Slithers to $1 Million on Thursday Night
Parmount’s alligator disaster movie “Crawl” has opened with a solid $1 million in Thursday night previews in North America while Disney’s buddy comedy “Stuber” took in $750,000 on Thursday.The two newcomers are both expected to finish far behind Sony’s second weekend of “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” which is pegged to take in between $35 million […]
Continue readingFilm Review: ‘Crawl’
Dropped into the never-ending deluge of films that feature supernatural evil, grandiose comic-book villainy, or mad slashers who might as well be supernatural, “Crawl” devotes itself to a force of terror so stubbornly of this earth that it may strike Saturday-night audiences as faintly exotic. The movie, a scaled-down and waterlogged thriller, is built around […]
Continue reading8 Alternative Monster Movies, From ‘It Follows’ to ‘Rubber’
When “Crawl” opens in theaters this week, Alexandre Aja’s latest film promises to do for alligators what other offbeat horror movies have done for such wacky villains as tires, worms, and tigers. While the monster movie subgenre has long enjoyed scaring up audiences with traditional baddies like zombies, werewolves, vampires, even alien beings and large-scale […]
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