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New York Post
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Zombie flick ‘28 Years Later' bites into box office with $14 million take
It looks like zombies still generate big bucks at the box office. '28 Years Later,' the long-awaited threequel to Danny Boyle's blockbusters '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' enjoyed a bloody good opening on Friday. The film generated $14 million in sales in its first day in theaters, landing in first place on the box office chart, according to The Numbers. Advertisement 3 Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in '28 Years Later.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection The film is set in 2030, decades after the second outbreak of the zombifying Rage Virus. While essentially eradicated in Europe, the virus breeds Alphas, smarter and more powerful zombies. Advertisement With nearly $11 million in ticket sales on its eighth day of release, the live-action remake of 'How to Train Your Dragon' followed in the #2 slot. The Post said while 'nice,' the film 'doesn't always soar.' Disney's animated flick 'Elio' lands at #3, with opening day box office receipts reported to be $9 million. 3 How to Train Your Dragon took second place at the box office on Friday. ©DreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement The film centers around Elio, a space fanatic obsessed with aliens, who lets his active imagination take him on intergalactic adventures. The live action 'Lilo and Stitch' remake, released last month, pulled in another $3 million Friday, for a grand box office total take of $380 million. 3 Elio is about a boy obsessed with space. ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement 'Materialists' rounded out the top 5, with earnings of just under $2 million. The rom-com is set in NYC and centers around a love-triangle involving its main characters, played by Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal.
New York Post
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘How to Train Your Dragon' live-action remake has mythical box office opener
It breathed fire into the box office. 'How to Train Your Dragon' had a mythical day in theaters on Friday, its opener, landing in first place with $35.6 million in sales, according to The Numbers. The live-action remake of the 2010 DreamWorks Animation film, which The Post said 'is nice, but doesn't always soar,' had the fourth-biggest opening of 2025. Advertisement It is slated to enjoy a three-day gross of $82.7 million, as per Variety. 'Materialists' landed in second, with earnings of just over $5.1 million. 3 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the live-action remake of the 2010 DreamWorks Animation film, landed in first place on its opening day. AP Advertisement The rom-com, which is set in NYC and centers around a love-triangle of its main characters, played by Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, is projected to take in around $12 million until Sunday. The Post said 'watching the new, unromantic, non-comedy,' 'can feel like going on a shaky first date.' 3 In 'Materialists,' Pedro Pascal plays a millionaire private-equity investor. Courtesy Everett Collection The live-action remake 'Lilo & Stitch,' moved down a notch from last week to third place, with $4.7 million in revenue. Advertisement It's already surpassed the $800 million mark globally and is on track to reach $1 billion, according to Deadline. 3 The live-action remake 'Lilo & Stitch' set the record as the biggest four-day Memorial Day weekend domestic opening of all time. ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection Falling down a spot to fourth was 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' with just over a $2.25 million dollar take. 'Karate Kid: Legends' remained in fifth, with $1.25 million in sales.
New York Post
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Lilo & Stitch' remake on its way to having biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever
It's saying 'Aloha' to A-lot of money. The 'Lilo & Stitch' live-action remake is on its way to becoming the biggest Memorial Day weekend opening for a movie ever. The Disney film raked in $55 million on its opener, Friday, alone, according to The Numbers. Advertisement It's also the second-highest grossing opening weekend in 2025, after 'A Minecraft Movie,' according to Variety. The Post, however, was not impressed, and thought Disney 'turned the story into a soulless downer, made its color palette practically sepia and tacked on an extra half hour of dead air.' 3 The 'Lilo & Stitch' live-action remake stars Maia Kealoha as Lilo in her film debut. ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement In second place was 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' the eighth and final installment of the Tom Cruise-led series, with sales of $24.8 million. The action spy flick, which also opened on Friday 'is overblown, inanely plotted, clotted with expository dialogue and boundlessly self-congratulatory … but … it's also fun to watch,' NPR said in its review. Contrary to its title, it does not mark the 62-year-old action king's final film — by any means. 3 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' star Tom Cruise has no intention of retiring. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement 'I actually said I'm going to make movies into my 80s. Actually, I'm going to make them into my 100s,' Cruise said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter at the film's New York premiere. The movie, which cost $400 million to make, is also one of the most expensive ever made since it was filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, two Hollywood strikes and increases in inflation. 3 'Final Destination Bloodlines' is the sixth installment of the franchise. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection The supernatural horror thriller 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' which was landed in the No. 1 spot last Friday, upon its release, fell two notches to third with a $5.5 million take. Advertisement Tying for fourth with $2.4 million each was 'Sinners,' on its sixth Friday in theaters, and 'Thunderbolts*' on its fourth. The bull-riding drama 'The Last Rodeo,' which was released on Friday, took the fifth spot with sales of close to $2.1 million.
Mint
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
What the controversial new 'Snow White' can teach Hollywood
'Snow White', Disney's live-action remake of a beloved animated film, had an icy reception before its release in cinemas on March 21st. A trailer posted three months ago has earned just 60,000 likes and over 1m dislikes. 'If I saw this movie on a plane I would still walk out,' grumbled one YouTube user. 'We thankfully have the technology nowadays to make the animation look worse than the original from 1937,' groaned another. Among the remake's many sins are seven in particular: the dwarves, who have been cheesily rendered with computer-generated imagery (CGI), after a row over whether it was politically correct to have actors with dwarfism in the roles. (In the face of criticism, Disney recast the film's dwarves as 'magical creatures'—whatever that means.) There is also the issue of Rachel Zegler, the actress chosen to play Snow White, who panned the original film as 'extremely dated' and said that the prince 'literally stalks' the princess. It turns out fans do not like it when a remake's heroine villainises the classic film that inspired it. By respinning familiar tales, remakes can offer studios a surer path towards commercial riches. In the amount of pushback and controversy it has faced, 'Snow White' is unusual. But in another way the film reflects a current trend, which is for studios to reach further back in history for source material. From 2020 to 2024 the average age of the source films that new remakes were based on was 35. That is about 13 years older than from 2011 to 2015, according to our analysis of data from The Numbers, a film website. What makes for a successful remake? It is a question on the minds of many Hollywood executives, as well as cinephiles. To answer it, The Economist analysed 200 remakes released since 1995; each had a minimum of 5,000 ratings on IMDb, an online movie database. (Our analysis only includes remakes of films, not adaptations of books.) Three lessons stand out. First, it is not enough to use state-of-the-art special effects; computer-generated imagery needs to be handled carefully. Of the 20 worst remakes (as measured by IMDb audience ratings), half are horror films, in part because of their use of unconvincing special effects. In the fifth-worst-rated, a remake in 2005 of John Carpenter's cult classic 'The Fog' from 1980, a supernatural, vengeful fog descends on an island town off the coast of Oregon. Cheap shocks substitute for tension: viewers have complained that the fog moves too quickly and that ghosts in the fog (never clearly visible in the original) are hokey, a complaint also made by viewers about the dwarves in the new 'Snow White'. Second, comedies come with grave risks. This is the worst-performing genre for remakes, earning an average IMDb rating 1.5 points (out of ten) lower than the originals. Comedy remakes also tend to make the least at the box office. Not a single one significantly outshines the original film it was based on, according to audience ratings. It may be that viewers of comedies and horrors crave an element of surprise, which is hard to offer in a faithful remake, because audiences already know which gags and gasps to expect. The best remakes get their inspiration from abroad. Since 1995 about a third of the top remakes have been based on foreign source material, including six of the top ten. So are the only two remakes to have won Academy Awards for Best Picture: 'The Departed' (2006), based on a Hong Kong film, and 'CODA' (2021), based on a French-Belgian one. Unfamiliarity with the originals may mean that audiences come in with lower expectations and without any attachment to the original. Take 'Bugonia', starring Emma Stone, set to be released in November. It is an English-language remake of a South Korean film; instead of a male chief executive, the new story centres on a female one. However, audiences, lacking knowledge of the original, are unlikely to kick up a fuss about the change. The same cannot be said of the new 'Snow White', which seems destined for an unhappily-ever-after ending. For more on the latest books, films, TV shows, albums and controversies, sign up to Plot Twist, our weekly subscriber-only newsletter
Forbes
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘A Minecraft Movie' Is Already Coming To Streaming On Max In June
The Jack Black and Jason Momoa blockbuster A Minecraft Movie is set to debut on streaming on Max in June. Based on the iconic Mojang video game Minecraft, A Minecraft Movie debuted in theaters on April 4. To date, the film has earned $417.8 million domestically and $512.7 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $930.5 million against a $150 production budget before prints and advertising, per The Numbers. In addition to its big box office numbers, A Minecraft Movie spawned a TikTok craze during its theatrical release with the film's "Chicken Jockey" scene, which at times got out of hand in theaters where fans threw concessions and caused damage. Rated PG, A Minecraft Movie arrived on digital streaming on May 13 and will be released on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD with bonus features on June 24. Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Wednesday that A Minecraft Movie will arrive on Max in June, but did not indicate an exact release date. The title was a part of the list of new and catalog titles that Max (soon to be HBO Max) releases monthly. Currently, the June Max calendar only lists A Minecraft Movie as 'coming soon.' Streaming tracker When to Stream is estimating that A Minecraft Movie will arrive on Max on June 20, since that is the only date on the release schedule where a big premiere is not listed. When to Stream is typically accurate with its release date reports, but without Warner Bros.' announcement or confirmation of the actual date, the estimated date is just that. Max offers three subscription tiers. Viewers can get a basic tier with ads for $9.99 per month or an ad-free tier for $16.99 per month. A deluxe, ad-free tier with 4K Ultra HD programming is available for $20.99 per month. Per Warner Bros. Discovery's press release revealing Max's June 2025 streaming calendar, the official summary for A Minecraft Movie reads, 'Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn't just help you craft, it's essential to one's survival! Four misfits — Garrett 'The Garbage Man' Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. 'To get back home, they'll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Jack Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative … the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.' A Minecraft Movie is directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) from a screenplay by Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer and Neil Widener & Gavin James and Chris Galletta. Also starring Jennifer Coolidge, A Minecraft Movie is coming to Max in June with a specific release date yet to be announced.
