Tag: Here We Go Again
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Box Office: ‘Mamma Mia’ Shoots Past ‘Equalizer 2’ in Thursday Night Shows
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” has opened with a solid $3.4 million at 2,850 North American locations in Thursday night preview showings that began at 7 p.m.That was enough for the musical to top Denzel Washington’s “The Equalizer 2,” which launched with $3.1 million at 2,934 sites in Thursday previews that began at 4…
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Sequels Continue to Arrive as ‘Mamma Mia 2’, ‘Equalizer 2’ and ‘Unfriended 2’ Hit Theaters
To the very best of our knowledge, this weekend will serve as the first time ever that eight of the top ten films at the weekend box office will be sequels. Both of the past two weekends have featured seven sequels within the top ten * which had happened before (see the very same weekend…
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‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Review: Lily James Is a Breakout, but This Energetic Sequel Misses Meryl Streep
Half sequel, half prequel, and almost entirely disconnected from the film being sold by its trailers, Ol Parker’s “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” is an amiable, energetic followup to the 2008 smash hit. It’s also missing its biggest star, Meryl Streep as Donna Sheridan, and her absence is keenly felt. Thank goodness then for…
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Film Review: ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” the perfectly titled sequel to “Mamma Mia!” (it opens 10 years to the week after the first film), kicks off on a bubbly high. It’s 1979, and Donna, the free-spirited expatriate-on-a-Greek-island innkeeper played by Meryl Streep, is now played, at the end of her Oxford undergraduate days, by Lily…
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Hugh Skinner: ‘I like playing people who are crap at things’
The W1A star on embracing Abba in the Mamma Mia sequel, being mistaken for The Crown’s Matt Smith and the joy of spray tansLondon-born Hugh Skinner, 33, graduated from Lamda and began his acting career in the theatre. He’s best known for his comedic TV roles as bumbling intern Will in W1A, Prince William in…
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‘Equalizer,’ ‘Mamma Mia’ Sequels Head Toward $30 Million Domestic Openings
Sony’s “The Equalizer 2” and Universal’s “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” are heading for solid North American launches in the $27 million to $33 million range for the July 20-22 weekend, early tracking showed Thursday.“The Equalizer 2” is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as retired CIA operative Robert McCall, who decides to punish the…
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‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Trailer: Where’s Meryl?
Somehow, Meryl Streep has become the Hawkeye of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The final trailer for the Abba-infused musical has arrived, and the whole gang is here…except Meryl Streep, who only makes a super-quick appearance before transforming into Lily James. Watch the Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again trailer. I never thought that…