’Spider-Man’ enjoyed an easy victory at the global box office, with nearly double the takings of its nearest challenger, ’Scream’.Worldwide box office January 21-23 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (World) Cume (World)3-day (Int’l) Cume (Int’l) Territories 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) $41.8m $1.69bn $27.7m $970.1m 64 2. Scream (Paramount) $22.6m $84.9m $10.2m $33.6m 55 3. […]
Continue readingSony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” spent a fifth consecutive weekend at the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, collecting £3.2 million ($4.3 million), according to numbers provided by Comscore.With a mighty total of £84.1 million ($114.2 million), “Spider-Man” has swung past “Titanic” (£80.2 million) and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi (£82.7) to claim […]
Continue readingDirector Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” is the third film in the ever-expanding “Kingsman” franchise, and the first spin-off and prequel. The film’s star-studded cast includes Harris Dickinson, who plays Conrad Oxford, the son of Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes), and Dickinson recently made time for an interview with /Film’s Jeff Ewing, where he revealed that production on […]
Continue readingInspired by the comic book series “The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, and serving as a prequel to 2014’s “Kingsman: The Secret Service” and 2017’s “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” is an odd amalgamation of cartoonish violence and somber melodrama. Set decades before the events of the first […]
Continue readingAfter what feels like forever, director Matthew Vaughn’s “The King’s Man” has finally arrived in theaters. Serving as a prequel to the events of both “Kingsman: The Secret Service” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” Vaughn decided to take us back to the early 1900s for a World War I film that tells the origins of […]
Continue readingMatthew Vaughn’s “Kingsman” prequel “The King’s Man” heads to theaters December 22nd, and the series’ World War One-era prequel will showcase the origins of the independent British spy agency in all its violent-yet-dignified glory. Joining the franchise are a number of new characters who are now pivotal figures in the organization’s founding, including Ralph Fiennes as […]
Continue readingGuns, suits, and kicking ass. Those are the three pillars of Matthew Vaughn’s “Kingsman” series, which tracks the adventures of a secret spy organization that stops various global cabals from destroying the world via cartoonish ultra-violence and a devilish sense of humor. Both “Kingsman: The Secret Service” and its sequel “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” revel […]
Continue readingThe “Kingsman” series is perhaps our weirdest ongoing popular franchise. Matthew Vaughn’s sleek adaptations of the obscenely violent Mark Millar comics turned a misanthropic send-up of the gentleman spy thriller into star-studded entertainment whose flashy action sequences made you overlook how secretly conservative it is. (The Big Bad villains of the first movie were environmentalists!)So […]
Continue readingDisney announced on Friday that upcoming 2021 films “Eternals,” “The Last Duel,” “West Side Story,” “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and “The King’s Man” will get exclusive, 45-day theatrical windows before moving to digital platforms.Meanwhile, the animated musical “Encanto” will play in theaters for 30 days starting on Nov. 24, before hitting Disney Plus.The decision is a […]
Continue readingFans will have to wait a little longer to return to Downton. Focus Features is pushing the North American release of “Downton Abbey 2” from Dec. 22, 2021, to March 18, 2022.The film will now compete against “Unbreakable Boy,” a drama with Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy and Patricia Heaton. The following weekend will bring the […]
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