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The Gorge: Everything We Know About Scott Derrickson’s New Movie Starring Miles Teller And Anya Taylor-Joy

“Follow your passion” seems to be Scott Derrickson’s guiding philosophy as a director, and so far it’s served him pretty well.The key, it appears, is his ability to bounce back from disappointment by channeling his energy into something he really believes in. After his big-budget 2008 film remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” […]

The Black Phone Villain Was Originally Going To Be A Clown, But Then It Happened

One of the scariest movie villains of 2022 so far is the Grabber (Ethan Hawke), the antagonist of Scott Derrickson’s supernatural horror film “The Black Phone.” The otherwise unnamed villain is a child abductor and killer, plucking kids off the streets in 1970s Colorado. The Grabber isn’t onscreen for much of the movie and we […]

Universal Owns the VOD Charts This Week, Led by ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’

Universal is usually strong on VOD charts, but this week it dominates by holding 13 out of 30 possible slots with the just-released “

‘Nope’ Debuts To 44 Million, The Best For An Original Film Since Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ In 2019

Writer/Director Jordan Peele is back with Nope, the UFO-centered horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, and Peele once again proves that he is one of Hollywood’s few directors whose name can consistently lure audiences into cinemas. The 44 million launch fell quite a bit short of Peele’s previous film Us, which opened […]

Super 8 Dream Sequences and Jump Scares: Dp Brett Jutkiewicz on The Black Phone

It’s fitting that The Black Phone, an adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story, was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina. Forty years ago, it was the fertile imagination of Hill’s father—Stephen King—that birthed the city’s film industry. Needing a sprawling estate for an adaptation of King’s novel Firestarter, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis settled on an […]

‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ runs riot with 196m session; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ soars to 1.1bn

‘Minions’ film delivers strongest weekend take for a US studio animation in the pandemic eraWorld Box Office July 1-3 Rank Film(distributor) 3-day(world) Cume(world) 3-day(int’l) Cume(int’l) Territories1.Minions: The Rise of Gru(Universal)195.7m 202.2m 87.2m 93.7m 732.Top Gun:Maverick(Paramount)62.5m 1,108.5m 37m 544.5m 66 3.Lighting Up The Stars(Various)44m 118.2m 44m 118.2m 1 4.Jurassic WorldDominion(Universal)42.5m 824.5m 26.8m 492.7m 73 5.Elvis(Warner Bros)34.7m […]

‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ runs riot with 196m global session; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ soars to 1.1bn

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ returns to top of global box office, flies past 1bn; ‘Elvis’ croons way to 50m debut

Tom Cruise film becomes top title of 2022 at worldwide box office.World Box Office 24-26 June RankFilm(distributor)3-day(world)Cume(world)3-day(int’l)Cume(int’l) Territories1.Top Gun:Maverick(Paramount)75.0m 1,006m 44.5m 484.7m 662.Jurassic WorldDominion(Universal)69.4m 746.7m 43.0 443.9m 73 3.Elvis(Warner Bros)50.5 50.5 20.0m 20.0m 52 4.Lightyear(Disney)40.0 152.4m 19.3m 63.6m 45 5.The Black Phone(Universal)35.8m 35.8m 12.5m 12.5m 46 6.Lighting Up The Stars(Various)31.6m 36.8m 31.6m 36.8m 1 7.Witch […]

‘Elvis’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Slug It Out For The Spot With 30.5 Million Each; ‘The Black Phone’ Also Scares Up Strong Numbers

Looking at this weekend’s box-office returns you may very well be wondering what year it is as Tom Cruise slugged it out with Tom Hanks for bragging rights over who has the top-grossing movie in North America. As Sunday’s receipts were still being tallied, it appeared as if the the two A-list veterans were locked […]

6 Movies To Watch If You Loved The Black Phone

“The Black Phone,” from director Scott Derrickson and his writing partner C. Robert Cargill, is based on a short story by Joe Hill (the son of horror master Stephen King). It tells the story of a young boy named Finney (Mason Thames) who is snatched by a serial killer dubbed the Grabber (Ethan Hawke). Finney’s […]

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