You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who
opens the film in 1992 in Oakland, a few stops down the BART line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.
Leia
opens the film in command of the spaceship; she gives orders in «hopes» that the combative attack by Snoke the Supreme Leader of the First Order will be averted.
Amazon Studios is partnering with Lionsgate on the theatrical release,
opening the film in five theaters in New York and L.A. before adding more theaters in the coming weeks.
SPC plans to
open the film in December qualifying the movie for year - end awards consideration.
Focus Features announced they will
open the film in theaters on August 10.
Stateside, Warner Bros.
opened the film in specific markets targeted to Chinese - language audiences.
Studio Canal
opened the film in the U.K. in early March, grossing over $ 1.3 M through last month.
Will the studio
open the film in the first half of 2011 or will it hold off until next year's awards season?
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opens the film in an Oscar - qualifying run Friday.
Deraspe
opens her film in a very unique manner for a documentary, recreating the imaginary affair between Amina and Sandra in hypersexualized images of women undressing under explicit texts between the pair.
«The Wettest County» hits theaters on Friday, August 30, which seems to indicate it will be
the opening film in Venice on August 29 (or play concurrently with the film's release on August 30).
Though the studio
opened the film in just five theaters and conservatively expanded to a peak of 200, Wilderpeople, with a practically non-existent marketing budget, caught on in America, grossing nearly $ 5 million here and nearly five times as much as any of The Orchard's other releases.
Netflix will
open the film in select theaters next year as well as stream on the film on its online service.
On its way to dethroning Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the highest - earning
opening film in the US and Canada, Infinity War recorded the highest - ever take for a Saturday ($ 83m) and Sunday ($ 61m).
According to press releases, Radius is scheduled to
open the film in the «second quarter» of 2015.
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 only other new
film opening in wide release, «Tyler Perry's Acrimony,» brought
in $ 17.1 million to rank No. 2.
Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg
film, a respectable
opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions
in marketing costs.
«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality,
opened as the top
film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..
«The Interview,» the Sony Pictures
film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,
opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell - out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.
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.
First
opened by the Zelepos family on Main Street
in Mystic, Conn., this seaside establishment serves as the backdrop to the 1988
film of the same name, starring Julia Roberts.
The
film earned just $ 28.7 million its first week, compared to the $ 220 million it made
in the U.S. during just its
opening weekend.
For most of the
films that were offered
in both two and three dimensions this summer, the enhanced versions accounted for less than 50 % of
opening weekend revenues.
Tiny yellow «Minions» topped this weekend's box office, pulling
in a reported $ 115.2 million
in North America alone and earning the second - largest
opening for an animated
film in history.
The
opening scene of «Spectre,» the latest James Bond
film, centers on a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) parade shot on location
in Mexico City.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, actor Christopher Eccleston opened up about filming «Thor: The Dark World,» and said it was like a «gun in your mouth.&raqu
In a recent interview with The Guardian, actor Christopher Eccleston
opened up about
filming «Thor: The Dark World,» and said it was like a «gun
in your mouth.&raqu
in your mouth.»
It went on to become the highest - grossing
film in the US over President's Day weekend, highest
opening all - time for an R - rated movie, and the highest - grossing for the month of February.
That makes her death even more tragic, but
in the first «Guardians of the Galaxy,» it's still an emotional moment that
opens the
film.
In «The Dark Knight Rises» he actually had a plane dropped from the sky to
film the movie's
opening scene.
The
film then whizzes from Washington, D.C., to Switzerland to Japan to Hawaii, cracking
open the secrets that Snowden exposed
in a fateful meeting with journalists
in a Hong Kong hotel room.
First announced
in 2012, the Avatar theme park was intended to
open alongside Cameron's sequel of the
film, but the director has since delayed the movie until 2020.
Analysts knew the
film version of the book would do well, but they didn't quite expect this: The Hunger Games raked
in US$ 152.5 million on its
opening weekend, the third - best for any movie, ever.
In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability; in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoe
In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability;
in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoe
in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie
openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoe
in theaters and
film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes.
After debuting successfully
in three theaters last weekend, «Spring Breakers»
opens in more than 1,110 theaters bringing
in $ 5 million The indie
film with James Franco and Selena Gomez had a low budget estimated at $ 2 million.
Critics are giving mixed reviews to Snowden, the Oliver Stone
film that
opens in theaters on Friday.
The
film surpassed Frozen's record of $ 67.4 million to earn the biggest debut ever for a non-Pixar Disney animated
film, and it also scored the fourth - highest March
opening weekend
in box office history.
That puts the Sony Pictures
film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million
opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the
film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland
in the title role.
Spider - Man: Homecoming, the latest
film starring the famous Marvel Comics character and the second reboot to the franchise, pulled
in $ 50.5 million from 4,248 locations
in its
opening on Friday night.
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.
The $ 44 million
film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco had been expected to gross at least $ 20 million
in its
opening holiday weekend if it had gone to wide release, according to Boxoffice.com.
The FAA is considering approving drone use for seven companies
in the TV and
film industry, which could
open the door for exemptions
in other industries.
The drama,
opening in theaters Nov. 23, stars Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed the
film.
The
film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea,
opened Thursday
in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.
The
film opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the U.S. on Christmas Day, drawing crowds of people who said they were championing freedom of expression.
In entertainment, Texas Guinan, a former silent
film star from Waco, Texas, partnered with a gangster and
opened one of Manhattan's first nightclubs, starring as its raucous, wisecracking hostess.
The
film opens just before the unveiling of the Macintosh,
in 1984.
So
in 2011, he began
filming the show with Channel 4, a «fly - on - the - wall drama» following the love lives, arguments and parties of his friends who were (and still are) constantly visiting London's best restaurants, bars, shops and club
openings.
The second act of the
film opens with Jobs preparing to introduce the NeXT computer,
in 1988.