The film opened number one at the box office.
Not exact matches
The Walt Disney Co. on Monday reported final weekend
numbers for the superhero smash at $ 257.7 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, further boosting the
film's record - breaking
opening weekend.
Jurassic World
opened at
number 1 in 69 territories, making it the largest worldwide
opening weekend ever, and it became the fastest
film to reach $ 1 billion just 13 days after being released.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that NRG's earlier tracking had estimated a $ 125 million
opening for Black Panther as recently as two weeks ago, but the
number has been climbing as buzz for the
film builds.
Those
numbers took many by surprise (the
film's $ 60 million
opening weekend was well above early predictions of $ 40 million).
While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest
opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small
number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing
film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.
There are a
number of great set pieces littered throughout the
film, each one very different than the next, although the
opening attack on Philadelphia is probably the most exciting.
Garnering the
number one position for two weeks in a row, the
film brought in over $ 100 million in its
opening weekend.
They include an alternate
opening of Carol doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a
number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the
film,
Emma Watson, best known as Hermione in the Harry Potter
films, plays Belle, introduced in the
opening musical
number as a bit of an outsider in her small «provincial» French village.
Tony, of course, has his zippy metal power suits, but a
number of the other characters do, too, including Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who after the
opening fight spends the entire
film trying and failing to call forth his inner Hulk.
They include extended forest play / pipe dancing, a convenience store chat, Biaggio facing his fear of quicksand, Joe's nature daydreaming, and a complete look at how that
film -
opening pipe
number took shape.
His last
film, I Am
Number Four
opened with just $ 19 million in over 1,000 more theaters than Beastly is getting.
Safety Not Guaranteed starts out a little shaky — a
number of misfiring punch lines
opens the
film — but then gets better and better as the narrative plays out.
Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the
film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like
opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.
That leaves the field wide
open for as many as four additional nominees, though if there's enough widespread support for Argo or Zero Dark Thirty the ballot could be restricted to only six or seven
films (there can be anywhere from five to ten nominees, based on the
number of
films that achieve at least five percent of the votes.)
I could have listed any
number of his
films: Faces with Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin,
Opening Night with Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, or Husbands with Peter Falk... it doesn't matter.
That's just a 17 percent decrease from its
opening numbers, but the
film clearly did not find a wide audience.
Box Office Mojo reports that the actual global box office
numbers for the
film's
opening weekend settled around $ 290 million and with another $ 33 million added to that from Monday's earnings the
film has just passed $ 323 million globally.
This year's Oscars Weekend placed Gnomeo and Juliet
number one in a startling upset and significant increase in
numbers since the
film's
opening weekend of third place, where it has been ensnared until now — grossing an estimated $ 14.2 million.
Unfortunately, the
film debuted it's lowest
opening weekend box office
numbers than any of the other
films.
By that time I will have been able to see a
number of my most - anticipated 2014 movies that haven't yet been released here, including Inherent Vice, Selma and The Taking of Tiger Mountain Into the Woods (Tiger Mountain, which
opens on December 24th in China, doesn't
open until January 2nd in New York, which means it's a 2015
film by the New York standard.
Timed to
open right around Valentine's Day 2009, the
film boasted a
number of the most famous actresses working today.
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.
The «Deadpool» sequel
opened around much of the world this weekend to strong
numbers eclipsing the first
film globally but coming in a little soft domestically.
Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and
film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate
opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short
film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot»
number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short
film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»
Those
numbers are even more impressive considering the
film has yet to
open in China, the largest movie market in the world, where it bows May 11th.
Top Per - Screen Arthouse
Opening BLUE JASMINE $ 102,011 (6 Theaters) Runner Up: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS $ 101,353 (4 Theaters) * Disclaimer both AMERICAN HUSTLE & FROZEN beat these
numbers but those were fake - outs clearly on their way to wide mainstream moviehouses, rather than intended as platform specialty
films.
Hart receives a hefty commercial assist this time from Dwayne Johnson, who has enjoyed big
numbers in the last three Fast and Furious
films, and powered San Andreas to a muscular # 4.63 m
opening (including # 740,000 in previews) last summer.
Both
films will deliver sizeable preview
numbers to inflate their
opening weekend box office.
Opening with a dance
number set in a traffic jam and a gag lifted from The Girl Can't Help It, La La Land (Grade: A - / B +) announces itself as a
film both energized and limited by its commitment to movie musical tradition.
(In a few days the
film will
open to major box office, surprising Hollywood with
numbers swollen by a 70 % female audience.)
Having already played at a
number of
film festivals (most notably Cannes) and
opening in other countries prior to its U.S. release, reactions to the movie have been extremely positive, although it's still hard to tell whether it will appeal to a mainstream audience.
«Disobedience» had a strong
opening in the box office this weekend and doubles the
opening numbers of any
film from Bleecker Street according IndieWire.
While a few silly musical
numbers liven up proceedings (including one frankly bizarre sex scene), the
film never lives up to its
opening title song, a thrilling Spanish ballad belted over the credits by Christina Aguilera.
Co-starring Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler and the official endorsement of the
number one MMA organization, the UFC, the
film now
opens October 12.
When Carpenter dropped the news that Green and McBride had joined Team Halloween, he also revealed the
film's targeted release date to be October 19, 2018, a date that is significant for a
number of reasons but mostly because it will be the first Halloween
film to actually
open in theaters around the Halloween holiday since Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers in 1989.
As for Sting, his contributions to the
film were reduced to two original songs, an
opening Tom Jones
number and the end credits song that is distant in tone but quite agreeable and the subject of the
film's only Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations.
Recent
films include: Safe Haven, Act of Valor and Immortals, the latter both
opening number one at the box office in their debut.
Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying
number of projects and platforms (including the short
film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to
open the New York
Film Festival).
The
film opens in the present, with the
Number 1, here played by Malcolm McDowell at his gleefully wicked best, puffing on a cigar at a posh club, laughing and swapping stories while sipping champagne and paying scant attention to the boxing match at which he has ringside seats.
Surprise
number one came right at the
opening credits --- this was a John Carpenter
film; the same John Carpenter who gave us Big Trouble In Little China, and The Thing, and Escape from New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 --- and I love all those
films, and several others of his.
If you need a palate cleanser after something so realistic, allow me to introduce you to Stage Fright, an off - the - wall slasher
film with highly - stylized visuals and an
opening musical
number -LRB-!).
Some 2017 blockbusters seem to have been sensitive to negative Rotten Tomatoes scores, like the recent bust of King Arthur, and some smaller
films have been buoyed by strong
numbers, like Baby Driver; meanwhile, The Emoji Movie had a strong
opening despite awful reviews, and Detroit struggled despite great reviews.
The
film opened to
number one at the box office with $ 47.7 million, the biggest
opening for a video game adaptation since Mortal Kombat in 1995 and the biggest
opening for a movie with a female lead.
As Variety notes, the initial estimates and expectations prior to the
film's release had Black Panther making around $ 100 to $ 120 million in its
opening weekend — a
number that looks positively meager compared to the final figures.
Opening weekend
numbers have always been important to the success of a summer blockbuster, but now we live in an age where the pre-release tracking can also have a huge impact on the way a
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It's the little notes that he hits that are more memorable than the broad ones like the look on his face when he sees Peppy's new
film opening in a much bigger venue than his own or the way he can't move past the young lady as they try to shoot a dance
number (in easily one of my favorite scenes of the year).
Danny McBride (Up in the Air, The Heartbreak Kid) and James Franco (127 Hours, Spider - Man 3) star in this comedic fantasy sword - and - sorcery adventure that resembles a bad Mel Brooks farce (an
opening scene with «midgets» would be at home of any
number of Brooks» off - color
films) if he were to have completely given up halfway through.
A
number of bonus features from Spider - Man 2's original DVD are not included here: another Spidey Sense graphic subtitle trivia track, Train's «Ordinary» music video, four making - of webisodes, the 15 - minute «Interwoven: The Women of Spider - Man», «Enter the Web» (multi-angle B - roll from the
filming of four sequences), a gallery of Alex Ross» paintings of scenes from the original
film used in the
opening credits, a trailer for and making - of featurette on Activision's Spider - Man 2 video game, and, least importantly, DVD - ROM content supposedly consisting of weblinks and an S - M 3 countdown which I couldn't even get to work (trying to use InterActual these days is a disaster).