This week's Blu - ray roundup features one of the coolest action movies of the year, a somber, snowy drama, a five -
film box set, and a documentary about cats.
TCM and Columbia's five -
film box set «John Ford: The Columbia Films Collection» covers Ford films in genres not usually associated with him.
In related news, on January 31, 2006, SPHE will release The Muppets Movie Collection, a three -
film box set containing The Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppets From Space, and the 2002 direct - to - video film Kermit's Swamp Years.
Not exact matches
Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year
box office record, which it
set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar
films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.
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 Force Awakens
set a new domestic
box office record by hauling in $ 936 million in North America, as the
film blasted its way to more than $ 2 billion in worldwide
box office receipts.
While the
film is
set to break numerous
box office records, it's strong, inclusive characters will have a lasting impact.
We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens
set records at the
box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster
film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.
The Clint Eastwood
film, starring Bradley Cooper, made another $ 64 million over the past three days,
setting its worldwide
box office total at over $ 247 million after being wide - released in theaters for two weeks.
It first emerged in 2007 pushing a sleek black
set - top
box, which people connected to their TVs to gain access to thousands of Hollywood
films.
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling
set - top
boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, television channels and
films for free.
The Underground Cinema run secret events across the city, forget red armchairs in a
box room, you'll feel like you've walked on to the
set of your chosen
film and it will make for an extremely exciting date!
Debuting number one at the
box office this weekend, the
film not only shows James McAvoy give a stunning performance, but
sets very dark themes and more shockingly, an insane twist at the end that has left audiences's stunned.
Of course they vary slightly in structure «I love a night in with a
film and glass of something nice» «Looking forward to getting cosy with a good
box set» but the message is still the same.
In the seven years since that threequel
set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one
film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).
Four years after
setting box - office records with «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with bigger commercial success with «The Sting» which became one of the top ten highest grossing
films of 1973.
The
film may live as little more than a supplement on a future
box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.
The Criterion Collection capped one of their most exciting and prolific years to date with the release of 100 Years of Olympic
Films: 1912 - 2012, a
box set for the ages that spans 53
films and 41 editions of the Olympic Games.
Out of the
box, new televisions can make many
films and TV shows look wrong, with
settings that can often make the...
Perhaps it's something that works best in a
box set like this one, as we're more able to see how it plays off the three
films that came before it.
Look at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run of
films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all
set the
box office ablaze.
The guys over at Arrow
films have been doing the lord's work for a long while now, having recently given birth to such bouncing bundles of joy as as a
box set of
films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a clutch of little - seen
films by French maestro, Jacques Rivette.
Shacknews recently had a chance to talk to director Vince Bracken about the challenges of bringing this Play
Set to life, including dancing around spoilers, the
film's darker tone, and whether players can expect to see more figures and more Toy
Box content in the future.
Arrow Video's pointedly - titled
boxed set «George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn» is meant to shine new light on the
films he made in the interim.
The most recent transfer of John Carpenter's Halloween, digitally restored and remastered by the
film's original cinematographer Dean Cundey for the 2014 Halloween: The Complete Collection Blu - ray
box set, is the version that will be shown in theaters this October.
Region 1: Package in TCM's Dark Crimes DVD
box set, available here Region 2: Single - disc DVD from Carlotta, available here, or in a
box set of Siodmak
films available here Region 4: Aztec International DVD, available here
Sharing the honour with the likes of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Lupita Nyong «o, the
film is, no doubt,
set to be a huge
box office success.
Chow's new
film, Kung Fu Hustle, broke Asian
box - office records —
set by his previous
film, Shaolin Soccer — and at this year's Hong Kong
film awards it beat out 2046, by art - house darling Wong Kar - wai.
There first seven discs are identical to those in the (long out of print) 1999
box set (but without the bonus «Nightmare Encyclopedia» disc), while Freddy Vs. Jason is simply first disc in the
film's two - disc «Platinum Series» release.
The
film mightn't have
set the
box office aflame like many predicted it would (based on those early word - of - mouth screenings that the...
Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (New Line)-- As the inevitable reboot nears release (with Jackie Earl Haley wearing the razor glove), all eight
films from the original run of Freddie Krueger's Nightmare attacks on unsuspecting teens are collected in this no - frills
box set.
The expensive and exhausting production of the original 1978
film has been documented elsewhere, most recently in the 12 - DVD
box set released by Warners in 2006 to celebrate their «year of Superman» that coincided with the release of Brian Singer's Superman Returns.
Masterminds was originally
set to release in August of last year, but those plans fell through due to a bankruptcy within the
film's distributor, although honestly the fact that the movie is now releasing in the month of September a little over a year later might actually benefit its
box office performance, as the movie actually co-stars 3/4 of the Ghostbusters reboot (Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones).
Pennebaker's style is electric without ever being intrusive, and Criterion has REALLY loaded the
box set release with hours of special features, including over a dozen performances cut from the original
film.
Finishing out the Tayton
box (and exclusive to the
set), Warner's DVD release of The Comedians presents the
film in a 2.36:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that sparkles.
Factory has «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2»; Olive
Films has two releases: Samuel Fuller's «Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street» and Costa - Gavras» «Betrayed»; Universal Studios has two
box sets: «Cary Grant: The Vault Collection,» which features 18
films released between 1932 and 1936, and «Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection,» which includes «Pillow Talk,» «Lover Come Back,» and «Send Me No Flowers»; Warner Bros..
... Entertainment Weekly unloaded a wealth of Captain America: Civil War material this week, including a cover featuring Cap (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)[see here] and several new images from the Phase Three - launching
film [see here and here], while we also got a glimpse at the Sokovia Accords thanks to an image from the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Two Blu - ray
box set [see here]...
Well, after starting life in seeming «Development Hell» floating around Hollywood for years, then somehow lucking into two of Hollywood's biggest
box office names, Passengers is finally
set for release in December, and we now have a first glimpse of the
film thanks to Entertainment Weekly.
Both of these
films are in the
box set America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, which is a masterpiece.
While neither
film set the
box office alight, they were both successful in their own way and they showed that Clooney was an actor who could appeal to both men and women.
He made his directorial debut with the excellent Gone Baby Gone and while that
film didn't
set the
box office on fire, it did show his skill behind the camera.
That's certainly a shame as you would think the
film's second appearance on the format would present the perfect opportunity for Disney to provide some good in - depth bonus material the way they did for their two movies and to some extent, last summer's Season One
box set of «The Muppet Show.»
With the big Universal Hitchcock «Masterpiece»
box set bumped a month to the end of October, a pair of Warner Hitchcock Blu - ray debuts now arrive ahead of the
set: Dial M For Murder 3D (Warner), which includes a standard Blu - ray version, and Strangers on a Train (Warner), one of Hitch's greatest
films.
Each
film receives enough supplements to be worth of an entire
box set unto itself.
The eight features in this
box set, on four two - sided flipper discs in four thinpak cases, collect many of his best
films, two of them making their DVD debut here.
His
film kicked off a
box office record
setting trilogy.
Peter Berg might not have
set the
box office alight with his last
film, blockbuster failure BATTLESHIP (which was slightly underrated in my book)...
Based on the iconic DC Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide,
set numerous
box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing
film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin
film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based
film.
Disney - Pixar's animated family comedy «Coco» has
set a
box office record in Mexico, becoming the top
film as measured in local currency.
After building over $ 468 million in global
box office this year with The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros. has three more LEGO - branded
films set to hit theaters in the next four years, Kevin Tsujihara announced today as part of WB's super-sized shareholder announcement.