Tag: Hellboy
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Seven Reasons Why ‘Booksmart’ May Turn Out to Be a Box-Office Hit
Olivia Wilde’s high school comedy “Booksmart” will gross about $11 million in its first week in 2,505 theaters. That’s good enough for sixth place, which inspired a bevy of commenters to rail about what its failure reveals about the fate of review-driven, quality, small-scale original movies in today’s market.Fact is, not every film lives or…
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David Harbour Compares ‘Hellboy’ Remake to Chocolate as a Way of Admitting the Movie Sucked
Remember the Hellboy remake? It’s okay if you don’t, because everyone hated it, and it bombed at the box office. Now, a few months removed from the release date, star David Harbour is opening up about the film’s failure. Sort of. In an attempt to remain diplomatic, the actor has compared Hellboy to chocolate, offering…
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David Harbour Says ‘Hellboy’ Reboot Has “Major Problems” But Was Unfairly Judged Next To Marvel Films
Lionsgate’s recent “Hellboy” reboot is nothing short of a monumental disaster. With a modest budget (by comic book film standards) of only $50 million, the new film didn’t have to make $1 billion to be deemed a huge success. However, after its domestic run, the film is now sitting at a dismal $21 million. Combined…
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Daniel Dae Kim Joins Anna Kendrick in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Stowaway’
Daniel Dae Kim is joining Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette and Shamier Anderson in director Joe Penna’s sci-fi thriller Stowaway.The Hellboy star will play a biologist on a spaceship headed to Mars, where an unintended stowaway (Anderson) accidentally causes severe damage to life support systems.Facing dwindling resources and a potentially grim outcome, a medical researcher, played…
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How the Composer of ‘Shazam!’ Could be the Heir to Zimmer and Williams
After the horror thrills of “Lights Out” and “Annabelle: Creation,” director David Sandberg and composer Benjamin Wallfisch shifted tone with the light-hearted adventure of “Shazam!,” the box office hit starring Zachary Levi as DC’s iconic child-man superhero.“David and I started discussing the score several months before shooting began,” said Wallfisch (who has been busy lately…
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Superhero Bits: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Updates Coming to Marvel Games, ‘Shazam!’ Deleted Scenes Details & More
Even though the Hellboy reboot bombed, is David Harbour‘s portrayal better than Ron Perlman? Ready for some Avengers: Endgame updates for your favorite Marvel mobile games? Did Johnny Depp really try to have Amber Heard fired from Aquaman? What can we expect from Shazam! deleted scenes? What comic book answer won the new Jeopardy record…
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‘Missing Link’ Again Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv, Annapurna Pictures claims the top spot in spending for the second week in a row with “Missing Link.”Ads placed for the animated film had an estimated media value of $5.91 million through Sunday for 1,852…
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Movie Talk: Rian Johnson Working with ‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners on Future ‘Star Wars’ Movies
On today’s episode of Collider Movie Talk, Perri Nemiroff, John Rocha and Haleigh Foutch discuss the following: The new Hellboy starring David Harbour crashed and burned at the box office with a below expectations $12 million opening weekend and a “C” CinemaScore. Lucasfilm and Disney released both the first trailer for the new Star Wars…
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‘Dumbo’ retakes top spot at UK box office; ‘Hellboy’ opens fifth
‘Shazam!’ down to second; ‘Hellboy’ opens fifth.Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Mar 5-7) Total gross to date Week 1 Dumbo (Disney) £2.3m £17.7m 3 2 Shazam! (Warner Bros) £2.1m £8.9m 2 3 Captain Marvel (Disney) £885,000 £36.4m 6 4 Wonder Park (Paramount) £810,000 £1.6m 1 5 Hellboy (Lionsgate) £757,124…
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‘Shazam!’ #1 for Second Weekend as ‘Little’ Tops ‘Hellboy’ to Lead Newcomers
After four straight weekends featuring a new #1 film at the weekend box office, Warner Bros.’s Shazam! took the crown for a second weekend in a row, topping a flurry of newcomers that delivered varying returns. Universal’s Little secured the runner-up position, out-performing Lionsgate and Summit’s Hellboy, which struggled amidst a flurry of negative reviews…