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We'll find out in future years if Lucasfilm - Disney is pushing its luck with a new Star Wars film opening every year with new directors attached, but the formula it may have hit upon with Rogue One is as promising a start as there is.

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The Disney film shattered box - office records over the weekend, edging past «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» to set the highest opening weekend of all time.

The good news for Spielberg and Time Warner Inc.'s film division is that the next big superhero picture, Walt Disney Co.'s «Avengers: Infinity War,» doesn't open until April 27.

For that to happen, Star Wars will have to break through in a usually crowded December period for movies, a month where no film has broken past $ 100 million in its opening weekend.

The Disney / Marvel film topped 2015's «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» for the largest haul at U.S. theaters in an opening weekend.

Anyone who has attended a Star Trek or Star Wars film on opening day and then gone a few weeks later knows the difference between a piece of art viewed by cult followers and one viewed with casual fans.

«We knew we had to be better, we knew we had to be excellent,» said Brown, 89, one of about 10 Tuskegee Airmen who attended the White House screening of «Red Tails,» a film about the airmen produced by «Star Wars» creator George Lucas which opened in theaters in March 2012.

The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar, who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

To its credit, this visibly theatrical opening draws attention to themes including conversation and compromise, ideals and art, themes reinforced and complicated in the film's focus on the political manipulations Lincoln managed in order to ensure that the 13th Amendment was passed by the divided House of Representatives before the end of the war (it has been passed by the Senate before this film begins, in April 1864).

The film opens with Ellsberg, played by Matthew Rhys with a fine, forlorn rabbinical iciness, typing notes in the Vietnam combat field, then listening to McNamara on the plane ride back explain that the war is going terribly — only to watch him turn around and play the war's booster at an airport press conference.

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criOPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criopening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

War film Lone Survivor has marched to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend (10 - 12Jan14).

In any given year, Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosts over 40 red carpet film premieres and since it opened, it has hosted three Academy Award (R) ceremonies and numerous world premieres, including those for internationally - acclaimed film franchises, such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

With a little over three weeks to go until Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk arrives in cinemas, a new poster has arrived online for the hotly - anticipated World War II epic featuring Fionn Whitehead; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Dunkirk will be Christopher Nolan's shortest film since Following «Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and -LSB-...]

Del Toro's film starts off with an origin of sorts, set back in the waning days of World War II, where the Nazi army has taken to more desperate measures to keep their mission alive, which includes opening a portal to Hell to draw darker powers.

As his new film opens, Steven Spielberg explains how much his career is influenced by his war veteran father, and reveals his next projects

The film opens as Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a past war veteran who lost his legs, is brought to Pandora to become an avatar — a genetically engineered hybrid of human DNA mixed with DNA from the Na» vi natives.

Fans who felt that The Force Awakens played it safe or skewed too close to the original Star Wars films will find much to like about The Last Jedi — if they go into it with an open mind and willingness to step into uncharted terrain.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

And those weren't even the only films with female leads in the top 5 of this weekend's domestic box office: Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the vampire hunter series starring Kate Beckinsale, opened at No. 4 with $ 13.1 million from 3,070 theaters.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

«Black Panther» is one of five films that opened with a $ 200 million domestic weekend (with $ 202 million), joining «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» «Jurassic World,» and «The Avengers.»

Kathryn Bigelow «s previous film, The Hurt Locker, opened with the statement, «war is a drug.»

Considering the fact that Behind Enemy Lines is one of the few films to have actually had its opening date pushed forward following our declaration of war, I'm not the only person able to spot an opportunity.

Avengers: Age of Ultron had the second - highest domestic opening weekend in history, and if more is actually more, Captain America: Civil War, the first film in Marvel's Phase 3, will top that.

While the Kurt Russell vehicle made a rather modest splash, it opened to generally favorable reviews and paved the way for Mostow's next major action film: 2000's World War II drama U-571.

But there's one other film for it to take place in, and unless Infinity War opens with Thanos stealing it from another location, that would be none other than February's Black Panther.

It's clear that Masters of the Universe is a derivative film, from the very Superman - like opening credits and theme song, to the Star Wars type confrontations, and some even cite Jack Kirby's «New Gods» comic books as a primary source, although my belief is that the film's creators merely ripped - off other sources that were influenced Kirby's creations rather than a direct lifting of characters and themes.

Opening on an air force squadron of Free French fighters hidden in the countryside, it segues into a sea drama, a prison escape thriller, a war film, and during a brief deck brawl something approaching a pirate film, all nestled into the storyline through flashbacks and plot twists.

Friday totals for Marvel's big crossover edged «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» with $ 106 million, becoming only the third film with a $ 100 - million plus opening day

«Black Panther» fever took over Los Angeles and beyond this weekend as the highly anticipated Disney film opened to the kind of fervor typically reserved for the latest offering in the «Star Wars» franchise.

The opening credits feature the unsettling musical strains of «Deutschland Uber Alles,» and a title card after that informs us «The action of this film takes place during the year preceding the war, and on the night of September 3rd, 1939.»

Avengers: Infinity War has yet to open in China and will do so next week, so you can expect a significant bump for the film's international and global totals, the latter of which already exceeds $ 1.16 billion.

When she reappeared as Princess Leia in last year's «Star Wars» film («Episode Seven — ty - two,» Fisher quipped) to boisterous applause from the audience on opening day, it was impossible not to get a little misty - eyed.

Among the movies we discuss are Ondi Timoner's Russell Brand doc, which opened SXSW, «Creative Control,» «Uncle Kent 2,» Sally Field in «Hello My Name is Doris,» Austin's Zellner brothers film «Kumiko the Treasure Hunter,» starring Rinko Kikuchi, Sean Penn in «The Gunman,» Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale in Bleecker Street's «Danny Collins,» and smart horror flick «It Follows» and its tug - of - war between theaters and VOD.

By way of comparisons, the last few Marvel films to open in China were Black Panther with $ 66 million, Captain America: Civil War with $ 98 million, and Avengers: Age of Ultron with $ 84 million (at current exchange rates).

This opens up the casting process to upstart talents — fitting a similar strategy as what producers did with the standalone Han Solo Star Wars film and the reboot of Scarface.

The film's opening text indicates that dogs have been used by the military since World War I, with over 3,000 canines having served in our most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

The film opens to the Civil War, where soldiers are fighting for their lives, and their hopes.

Disney's stand - alone film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opened to a massive $ 155 million, scoring the second - largest December opening ever behind last year's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The film opens on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 (which we in the States call Veterans Day), the ending of World War I, which finds Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) standing out as a person who is not taking part in vivacious celebrations but thinking instead of whom she had lost in the wWar I, which finds Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) standing out as a person who is not taking part in vivacious celebrations but thinking instead of whom she had lost in the warwar.

Thursday at the French Film Festival saw a repeat screening of the opening night film The Bird followed by Declaration of War, France's submission for next year's Oscars ®.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.