Tag: Ticket to Paradise
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Black Adam Tops The Box Office With 67 Million, But Ticket To Paradise Is The Real Winner
It was the weekend the movie industry has been looking towards ever since August brought on a surprisingly dry end of summer at the box office. Heck, it had mostly been dry until “Smile” opened surprisingly big earlier this month, followed by a good opening weekend for “Halloween Ends” last week. But this past weekend…
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‘Black Adam’ tops global box office with 140m debut; US opening boosts ‘Ticket To Paradise’
Warner Bros’ latest DC title saw a roughly even split between North America and international territories.World box office October 21-23 Rank Film (distributor)3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Black Adam (Warner Bros) 140m 140m 73m 73m 77 2. Ticket To Paradise (Universal) 21.1m 96m 4.7m 80.2m 79 3. Smile (Paramount) 18.3m 166.2m…
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Ol Parker on Directing Dancing Scene with Julia Roberts & George Clooney
With Ticket to Paradise now playing in theaters, I recently sat down with writer-director director Ol Parker to talk about making his romantic comedy. In the film, Julia Roberts and George Clooney play a divorced couple who agree to put aside their differences to stop their lovestruck daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from marrying someone she just…
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Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Debuts at No. 1 With 67 Million, ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Scores 16 Million
“Black Adam,” a superhero adventure starring Dwayne Johnson as a villain who promises to change the “hierarchy of power” in the DC universe, towered over box office charts with 67 million in its domestic debut.The Warner Bros. comic book movie handily took down the weekend’s other new nationwide release, Universal’s romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise,”…
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U.S. Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Flies to 7.6 Million in Previews
After spending more than a decade in development, Dwayne Johnson’s “Black Adam” is finally taking flight. The DC Comics and Warner Bros. superhero movie earned 7.6 million at the domestic box office in Thursday previews from over 3,500 theaters.The strong Thursday launch bodes well for the film, and it’s tracking higher than last year’s “F9,”…
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Ticket to Paradise: Release Date, Trailer, Cast & Everything We Know So Far
Julia Roberts and George Clooney are embarking on a new adventure with their Ticket to Paradise. The Ocean’s Eleven alums are back and fabulously so in the all-new tropical rom-com, playing a divorced couple at odds. Ticket to Paradise is directed by Oliver Parker, who is known for previously writing and directing Mamma Mia! Here…
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‘Ticket To Paradise’ Review: A Lightweight But Enjoyable Reunion For Julia Roberts & George Clooney
George Clooney and Julia Roberts have been making movies together for more than two decades now, first sharing the screen in 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven,” and re-teaming for “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Money Monster,” and the Clooney-directed “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (though they shared no scenes). Yet it’s not just their shared charisma and charm that accounts…
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Contemplate a Second Chance at Love in an Old-Fashioned Romcom
Romantic comedies have never gone away, but mainstream examples with A-list stars have been pretty thin on the ground since the glory days of the ’90s and early 2000s, when “Pretty Woman,” “Notting Hill,” “Love Actually” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” ruled at the box office. Bucking the trend is “Ticket to Paradise,” a glossy piece…
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: The Big Studio Rom-Com Returns, Care of Roberts and Clooney
It’s been over 20 long, sad years since Julia Roberts last starred in a romantic comedy — and it often feels like it’s been almost as long since anybody has made a good one. Something so easy to enjoy is so hard to get right — like, you could argue, all the most precious relationships…