Aside from the fact that this article conflates the opening-day figure with the weekend total, the previous record wasn't set by Minions. That record (set in 2015) was broken in 2016 by Kung Fu Panda 3, which kind of highlights why "film x breaks record y in China" is the entertainment-journalism equivalent of "dog…
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Wow, how inept do you have to be to "inadvertently" spoil the next movie by putting a preview on the DVD and then mentioning it on the packaging?
"Now let me get this straight"
[Chris Stuckmann waits by the phone in anticipation]
I should've mentioned that there was a very good documentary about Eng (Golden Gate Girls) a few years back. It's only within the last couple of decades that her film career has entered historical consciousness—she was famous enough when she died in 1970 to get a fairly long obituary in the New York Times, but it…
Esther Eng is an interesting case of a woman who was not only a director (rare enough in the '30s and '40s when she did the bulk of her work) and a Chinese American (all the rarer among filmmakers), but also an out lesbian who only wore "masculine" attire. Unfortunately it's not really possible to say how much of a…
Sounds like this movie was dangerously close to having an actual sensibility, so I'm glad we dodged that bullet here.
Nothing. The DGA doesn't cover animated films for whatever reason.
Nigerian scammers are keeping track of who believed this story and using it to compile their mailing lists.
A film society around here used to play Tomatos Another Day as a regular pre-show piece. I ended up seeing it more than is probably healthy but it never got old.
Apatow.
Not if you're comparing it to films in the same franchise that opened on Tuesday (the original) or Wednesday (Revenge of the Fallen/Dark of the Moon). Age of Extinction is the only movie in the entire series that had a Friday opening.
Variety:
They do. Sony's been active in China since the late '90s and co-produced most of Stephen Chow's recent films, plus some Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang movies. Warner Bros. co-produced Crazy Stone, The Warlords, and Mission Milano, among others, and has a bunch more in the works (including, uh, a Miss Congeniality…
The average ticket price last year was $5.36 (versus $8.65 in the U.S.). This is due largely to discounts you can get from buying online or elsewhere—if you just walk into a theater to buy from the box office, you can expect to pay a lot more. In the "second-tier" city where I used to live, it was around $8 for a new…
Yes, please don't talk or text and thereby distract other patrons from the experience of waiters scuttling around the theater through the entire movie
I'll only see this if Venom fights Weasel Man.
I have a vivid memory of Bobcat Goldthwait explaining on one of the late-night talk shows that they had to make six sequels because the original left so many unanswered questions.
Given the way the same movies tend to cycle on and off Netflix, I'm pretty sure it's the Keira Knightley movie from 2010, which left in December 2015.