A24 has won the bidding war for Cannes’ hottest film, snatching up global rights to Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid. A24 outbid virtually every other major indie and studio distributor, including Focus Features, Neon, and Mubi to secure the film, a broad but touching comedy set in the gay club scene. Firstman wrote and directed Club Kid in his feature debut and stars alongside Cara Delevigne, Diego Calva and newcomer Reggie Absolom. The film premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard section last week. Oscar winner Alex Coco (Anora) and Galen Core (Lurker) produced the film, alongside Topic Studio’s Ryan Heller (A…
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Mortal Kombat II Worldwide Box Office: 2nd Weekend Update ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Karl Urban starrer Mortal Kombat II has dropped to #4 in the domestic box office rankings in its second weekend only. The action sequel, however, is not losing hope because it has hit its first major milestone at the worldwide box office. The movie not only recovers its budget this weekend but also earns comparitively more than that. The film is expected to enter the profitable zone at the box office soon. Keep scrolling for the deets. Records biggest 2nd weekend ever for fighting game…
Spaniards may not crowd the streets by the tens of thousands to celebrate their auteurs the way they do their futbolistas, but there has been a palpable sense of exuberance in the industry this spring about a historic moment for Spanish cinema. “I wish we lived it like that!” director Rodrigo Sorogoyen joked on the radio about the football analogy, after the April 9 announcement that his new film, The Beloved (El Ser Querido), would join Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) and Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra in an unprecedented three-film representation of Spain in this…
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Worldwide Box Office: Beats A Minecraft Movie ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is one of the biggest movies of the year, and even the one behind it in the global chart has over a $200 million gap. The movie is still on track to cross $1 billion worldwide and, ahead of that, has beaten the worldwide haul of A Minecraft Movie to become the all-time 2nd-highest-grossing video game adaptation globally. Keep scrolling for the deets. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at the domestic box office The Nintendo sequel…
John Oliver took aim at President Donald Trump‘s plans for a “huge” ballroom — something he’s done before and also before that — and his contradictory claims over upgrades on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. Oliver started out by pointing to Trump‘s social media post amid his trip to China wherein he noted that “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.! It is under construction ahead of schedule and will be the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the U.S.A.” Said Oliver: “Because incredibly, despite everything going on in the world right…
Raja Shivaji Box Office Collection Day 17: Beats Sairat, Emerges As Highest-Grossing Marathi Film ( Photo Credit – Jio Studios; Instagram ) Yesterday (May 17), history was made as the Marathi film industry finally got a new highest-grossing film after a long wait. Yes, you read that right! The record collection of Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru’s Sairat has been surpassed by Riteish Deshmukh’s Raja Shivaji. On the third Sunday, day 17, the magnum opus comfortably surpassed Sairat’s lifetime total at the Indian box office and became the top-grossing Marathi film. Keep reading for a detailed collection report! How much…
Director Christopher Nolan didn’t want to hold anything back when adapting Homer’s The Odyssey for the big screen. Talking to CBS News‘ Scott Pelley for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night, Nolan was asked what he believes the “essential elements” of his films are “I always try to have a point of view on the story that’s from inside the film,” he said. “So I’m not looking at the characters from 30,000 feet; I’m trying to be in the race, in the maze with them. Because I want to try and give the audience a sense of what…
Michael Worldwide Box Office: Achieves Two Milestones In One Weekend ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Michael has achieved a few milestones in its fourth weekend at the worldwide box office, from crossing a major milestone to beating Project Hail Mary and The Passion of the Christ for two separate titles. The music biopic is still the trending movie worldwide. Nothing is stopping it from crossing the $900 million milestone at the worldwide box office. Keep scrolling for the deets. How much has the film earned at the domestic box office after 4 weekends? The Jaafar Jackson starrer music biopic…
If there’s a great crime of recent world cinema, it’s that Kiyoshi Kurosawa hasn’t been granted bigger budgets. The 70-year-old Japanese auteur has consistently spun masterful moviemaking from a relative shoestring over the four and a half decades of his prolific and deeply influential career. Kurosawa has explored genres with a restlessness and inventiveness few directors of his generation can match: from the now-classic serial killer procedural Cure (1997) to the dread-soaked J-horror landmark Pulse (2001), the lacerating family drama Tokyo Sonata (Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner of 2008), the haunting wartime mystery Wife of a Spy (best…
Both the deadpan thrillers of the Coen brothers and the downbeat ‘70s crime flicks of French helmer Alain Corneau come to mind when watching Too Many Beasts (L’espèce explosive), a promising first feature from director Sarah Arnold that finds clever new ways to tell a familiar story of crooked cops and small-town corruption. What sets this slickly helmed, darkly funny debut apart from other entries to the genre is Arnold’s unusual blend of wildlife, agrarian strife, sexual frustration and longstanding regional feuds, which in this case involve the gentrification of one of France’s oldest pastimes: game hunting. Set in the…