Tag: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Why Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Film Was Better Than the Book
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the last Wizarding World movie to hit the big screen, turned out to be a massive financial disaster. However, Harry Potter remains one of the most valuable assets that Warner Brothers has the rights to, and the studio has already announced an ambitious plan to remake the same series…
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Devil In The White City Dropped By Hulu, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir this show’s blood.” Hulu has decided to walk away from “Devil in the White City” — the series adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 non-fiction historical novel — after developing it with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for over two-and-a-half years. Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood…
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Zero French Films Rank Among France’s Top Box Office Grossers for First Time in 33 Years
For the first time since 1989, there were no French movies among the country’s top 10 box officers grossers, which was exclusively dominated by U.S. studio movies.James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” led the 2022 chart with an estimated 54 million grossed from 7.8 million admissions since its Dec. 14 release, followed by “Top…
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Had To Recreate Staple Harry Potter Sets With VFX
With the “Harry Potter” movies, one thing was always certain: the magical school for witches and wizards, Hogwarts, would be cozy. This was home for the heroes, who would fall in love, fail classes, and nearly die there — it was important that the audience feel the same affection for the location that they did.…
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‘Jurassic World Dominion’ 53 Million Opening Gives China Its Best Box Office Weekend in Three Months
A powerfully impressive opening by “Jurassic World Dominion” and a partial reopening of cinemas gave China its biggest box office weekend in more than three months.The dinosaur franchise movie earned 53 million (RMB355 million) in three days in China, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. The film chewed off a massive 88 share of…
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Top Gun: Maverick Is Holding Strong With Massive 84.5 Million Second Weekend Box Office
It’s starting to feel like “Top Gun: Maverick” really did soar into theaters to save the movies. The first half of 2022 has been an inconsistent time for the box office as American moviegoers continued to figure out what movies they’re willing to risk the pandemic to see. There have been impressive hits, like “The…
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Korea Box Office Stages Tentative Recovery as Cinema Restrictions Ease
“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” topped the box office in South Korea over the May Day weekend, beating a handful of minor local titles which released in hope of catching a rising market.The latest Friday-Sunday period appeared to represent a turning point – a 4.86 million nationwide aggregate was the biggest weekend haul since…
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In A Daring Box-Office Heist, ‘The Bad Guys’ Makes Off With 24 Million and A Surprise No. 1 Debut
Farewell Fantastic Beasts, we hardly got a chance to know you. In what can only be called one of the most daring box-office heists of the spring, Universal’s new animated comedy, The Bad Guys, stole the weekend’s top spot in broad daylight, making off with a hefty 24 million haul. The multiplex larceny came at…
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‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Wins Another Weekend as Korea Box Office Is Slow to Respond to Reduced Restrictions
Cinemas in South Korea received the good news last week that anti-covid measures, including reduced seating capacity and bans on consumption of food and drink, were to end. But audiences reacted gingerly.“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” led the box office for a second weekend with 1.63 million, a drop of 44 from its opening…