Tag: Game Night

  • ‘Black Panther’ Continues Dominance in Second Weekend, Topping $700 Million Worldwide

    ‘Black Panther’ Continues Dominance in Second Weekend, Topping $700 Million Worldwide

    Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther continued its box office domination this weekend, becoming only the fourth film to ever deliver over $100 million in its second weekend as well as joining Jurassic World as the second fastest film to top $400 million domestically. Meanwhile, the weekend’s new wide releases finished mostly as expected with WB’s…

  • Check out This Alternate Poster for ‘Game Night’

    Check out This Alternate Poster for ‘Game Night’

    With directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s very funny new movie Game Night now in theaters, we’ve been provided with an alternate movie poster for the film to share with our readers. If you didn’t know, when a studio is coming up with their marketing plan, they design a myriad of options for the…

  • Box Office: ‘Game Night’ Edges ‘Annihilation’ With $1 Million Opening

    Box Office: ‘Game Night’ Edges ‘Annihilation’ With $1 Million Opening

    New Line’s R-rated comedy “Game Night” has opened with $1 million in Thursday night previews in North America, while Paramount’s sci-fi thriller “Annihilation” took in $900,000 from approximately 1,850 locations.“Game Night,” is expanding to 3,488 locations Friday at it opens against the second weekend of Disney-Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther” — which is poised to take…

  • ‘Black Panther’ Looks to Become the Fourth Film to Deliver a $100M+ Second Weekend

    ‘Black Panther’ Looks to Become the Fourth Film to Deliver a $100M+ Second Weekend

    After a record-smashing opening last weekend, Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther enters its second weekend looking to become only the fourth film to ever top $100 million in its sophomore frame. Meanwhile, a trio of new wide releases hope they don’t get completely overshadowed as WB and New Line release the R-rated comedy Game Night,…

  • New ‘Flash’ Directors Haven’t Begun Work Because Their Deal Isn’t Done

    New ‘Flash’ Directors Haven’t Begun Work Because Their Deal Isn’t Done

    It’s been over a month since it was first reported that Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein were in talks to direct a solo movie about The Flash, but Wednesday night the two told The Hollywood Reporter that they still haven’t finalized a deal with Warner Bros.“We’re still negotiating,” Daley said at…

  • ‘Game Night’ Review: Having Fun with the Thriller Genre

    ‘Game Night’ Review: Having Fun with the Thriller Genre

    The “thriller genre” can be a bit of an oxymoron. Thrills are predicated on the unexpected, but genre is about playing to certain conventions. If you know the conventions, then you can’t be thrilled because you’re expecting what comes next. That’s not to say that all thrillers are inherently boring, but rather something more akin…

  • ‘Game Night’ Review: Jesse Plemons is Hilarious in Self-Aware Comedy of Errors

    ‘Game Night’ Review: Jesse Plemons is Hilarious in Self-Aware Comedy of Errors

    February is usually dumping ground for studio fare, and while “Game Night” won’t change that, it’s at least more satisfying than the low bar would suggest. With a packed lineup of players and a board that covers far more area than you’d expect from a wide-release early spring lark, the latest studio effort from directing…

  • Film Review: ‘Game Night’

    Film Review: ‘Game Night’

    Party games like Pictionary, Charades, or Trivial Pursuit aren’t the same thing as real life. But one reason games like these never go out of style is that they’re about a lot of things, like competition and quick strategizing and supreme knowledge of pop culture, that are now survival skills in many a corporate office…

  • L.A. Readers: Win Free Tickets to Our ‘Game Night’ Screening With Q&A

    L.A. Readers: Win Free Tickets to Our ‘Game Night’ Screening With Q&A

    I’ve got a few questions for you. Do you like Jason Bateman? Are you looking forward to John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Game Night? Are you a fan of seeing movies before they’re in theaters? Will you be in the Los Angeles area February 20th? And, finally, would you like to see Jason Bateman,…