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Venom Let There Be Carnage scores pandemic.

October 4, 2021 Published by

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Sony Pictures’ Marvel sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” blew away expectations. Debut with $90.1 million in ticket sales, making it easy. The best opening of the pandemic, according to studio estimates Sunday.

“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is forecast to open with half that total. But the film, which is playing exclusively in theaters, exceeded even the debut of the 2018 original. “Venom,” the “Spider-Man” offshoot that introduced Tom Hardy’s parasitic alien symbiote, launched with $80.3 million. Only 2019′s “Joker” ($96.2 million) has ever opened bigger in October.

Both “Let There Be Carnage” and MGM’s “No Time to Die” originally  set to open last year. Believing the best box-office return would happen with an exclusive release in theaters. Both studios (neither of which has a major streaming platform) held out for better moviegoing conditions.

“No Time to Die,” which opens in North America on Friday, launched with $119.1 million in 54 overseas markets. The pace, according to MGM and Universal Pictures was roughly in line with the opening for “Skyfall.” Following its London premiere last week, “No Time to Die” — the 25th Bond film and Daniel Craig’s last outing as the super spy — grossed $25.6 million in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its $11.4 million on Saturday there was the best box office day for any Bond film on its home turf.

“Films can only become cultural when people see them together on the biggest, best screens and have that experience as a group,” said Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group. “You can’t replicate that by yourself at home.”

 

 

Emmy Awards 2021 full winners list.

September 27, 2021 Published by

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This year’s 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards went back to its original in-person event with all precautions in place.

It also included all attendees being required to show proof of vaccination. The show was hosted by Cedric the Entertainer.

The Crown, which had multiple nominations, won in all major drama categories. It won prizes for Best Drama series, best actors (drama), and best actors in supporting roles. It also took awards for best writing as well as directing. Olivia Colman won Best Actress and Josh O’Connor won Best Actor for the series.
Apart from that, Ted Lasso won Best Comedy Series. Not only that, but it also won the first two awards in comedy for supporting actors Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein.

The full list of winners is here:

Outstanding Drama Series: The Crown
Outstanding Comedy Series: Ted Lasso

Outstanding Variety Talk Show: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Outstanding Limited Series: The Queen’s Gambit

Outstanding Actor – Comedy: Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso

Outstanding Actor – Drama: Josh O’Connor

Outstanding Actor – Limited Series or Movie: Ewan McGregor – Halston

Outstanding Actress – Comedy: Jean Smart – Hacks

Outstanding Actress – Drama: Olivia Colman – The Crown

Outstanding Actress – Limited Series or Movie: Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown

Outstanding Supporting Actor – Comedy: Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso

Outstanding Supporting Actor – Drama: Tobias Menzies – The Crown

Outstanding Supporting Actor – Limited Series or Movie: Evan Peters – Mare of Easttown

Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy: Hannah Waddingham ( Ted Lasso)

Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama: Gillian Anderson – The Crown

Outstanding Supporting Actress – Limited Series or Movie: Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown

Outstanding Director – Comedy: Lucia Aniello – Hacks

Outstanding Director – Drama: Jessica Hobbs – The Crown

Outstanding Director – Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special: Scott Frank – The Queen’s Gambit

Outstanding Writing – Comedy: Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs, and Jen Statsky – Hacks

Outstanding Writing – Drama: Peter Morgan – The Crown

Outstanding Writing – Limited Series, Movie Or Dramatic Special: Michaela Coel – I May Destroy You

 

Jungle Cruise Reviews: Dwayne Johnson-starrer is an old-fashioned, fun family entertainer

September 27, 2021 Published by

Disney’s Jungle Cruise, inspired by the theme park ride of the same name, takes a typically family-friendly approach. It is a fantasy adventure story involving conquistadors, adventurers, ancient curses, and flowers with magical healing abilities.

Johnson does the job as a typical knave-at-first-glance-but-good-at-heart protagonist that populates such stories. But the real star has to be Blunt. The character is written well, and she brings a lot of heart and humor to the role. To the writers’ credit, they give Lily a lot to do, which is not always the case with female characters in similar movies.

Even Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann, who was considered a radical departure then for a female protagonist in a movie set in the early 18th century, does not appear all that much progressive in hindsight when compared to Lily.

Whitehall, who became famous after leading the cast of the British sitcom Fresh Meat, is predictably great here. The villain Prince Joachim, played by Jesse Plemons, is cartoonish, but in an entertaining way. This all works because Jungle Cruise does not take itself too seriously.

That’s it. Jungle Cruise is by no means a perfect movie. It has a few flaws that stop me from giving a wholehearted recommendation. But it is a fun, campy movie you can enjoy with the family and a diverting throwback to the 80s and 90s adventure films.

The Wire actor Michael K Williams died of drug overdose, confirmed by autopsy report.

September 27, 2021 Published by

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Actor Michael K Williams, who played the shotgun-toting drug dealer Omar Little in the HBO crime drama The Wire. He died of an overdose of drugs, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Friday.

“Acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin, and cocaine,”.  This is the cause of death determine by the medical examiner. She declined any further comment on the investigation.

Williams’ colleagues remembered his special talent for humanizing the characters. He portrayed bringing to his roles his own experience as a Black man growing up in New York.

Among the real-life struggles he tapped were bouts with drug addiction. He brought to his best-known role for The Wire. The TV series was set in Baltimore and told the story of the narcotics trade from the perspective of criminals, police, and the people caught between them. Critics praised Williams for his portrayal of Little, a homosexual drug dealer at war with his rivals.

Williams played the powerful African-American gangster Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire, an HBO series set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era of the 1920s.

During his career, Williams earned Emmy nominations for performances in HBO’s Bessie, The Night Of, and Lovecraft Country. He also won praise for his role in the 2019 Netflix series. When They See Us, the true story of five teenagers falsely accused of a brutal attack on a female jogger in New York’s Central Park, who was eventually exonerated after spending years in prison.

Oscar Isaac to join Metal Gear Solid film.

December 29, 2020 Published by

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It’s a good time to be Oscar Isaac these days. The actor had some rough years recently but seems things are going well for him since “At Eternity’s Gate”.

He has new films upcoming by James Gray and Paul Schrader, he’s set to play Francis Ford Coppola in a series about the making of “The Godfather”, he’s next to be seen in “Dune”, part of “Star Wars” and also filming “Scenes from Marriage”, HBO new version of Ingmar Bergman’s acclaimed movie.

Now the actor has a new task: he’s going to star in the film adaptation of “Metal Gear Solid” by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. “Metal Gear Solid” is a series of action-adventure stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987.

The player often takes control of a special forces operative (usually Solid Snake or Big Boss, which will be portrayed by Isaac in the movies), who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon “Metal Gear”, a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

The lead character is somewhat inspired by Snake Plissken, the lead hero of John Carpenter’s classic “Escape from New York”. Video game movies are usually not that strong but Filmiere.com is obviously for more and more good films and wishing this movie to turn out well.

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