The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Netflix reboot of Lost in Space was released today...
I really enjoyed the original series as well as the movie reboot several years back. So, I'm looking forward to seeing how this one turns out before making a judgement.
Black Panther is king with $387 million at the global box office!
Marvel Studios‘ Black Panther is king at the global box office with an estimated $387 million through Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday! The film opened to an estimated $192 million domestically for the three-day portion of the weekend from 4,020 theaters, an average of $47,767 per location, and is expected to gross $218.2 million through Monday. The $192 million figure is the highest debut ever for a February film (beating Deadpool‘s $132.4 million from 2016) and the fifth-highest opening weekend of all time. Black Panther received an A+ CinemaScore from audiences. Internationally, Black Panther has brought in $169 million since beginning its overseas rollout on Wednesday, February 13, bringing its worldwide total to $361 million through Sunday. Including Monday’s domestic estimate, that total climbs to $387 million.
I saw it last night and really enjoyed it. I think this is the first of many records this film is going to break.
Melissa McCarthy is finalizing a deal to star with Tiffany Haddish in The Kitchen, the drama on which Andrea Berloff will make her directorial debut. New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment are making the film, with a screenplay that Straight Outta Compton scribe Berloff wrote based on the 2014 comic book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle for DC’s Vertigo. The film is an uncommon one for a major studio: a gritty drama directed by a female filmmaker, with three strong female leads in the anti-hero roles. The Kitchen is an Irish mafia story set in Hell’s Kitchen, New York in the 1970s. An FBI sweep catches mob leaders, and while they are under arrest and their criminal enterprise is jeopardized, the mob wives take over. They end up running the illicit business in more vicious fashion than their husbands ever did.
Oh, I'd pay good money to see Melissa McCarthy playing a kickass mob wife. Few ladies can swear and fight as well as she has in past films.
Honestly, listening to her swear in any movie is something that makes me laugh more than most humans ever should.
The first trailer for the upcoming Marvel movie, Venom, was released today...
I do like Tom Hardy and always look forward to new Marvel movies. However, I don't know much about this character or his story (I thought he was a villain, but this trailer makes it look like he's possibly a good guy).
I think his costume is supposed to look like this...
So, kind of like a black Spider-Man costume with really pointy teeth and a long tongue.
A new and entertaining Deadpool 2 trailer was released today...
It's still not clear what the movie is actually about, but maybe that doesn't really matter. The humor in these trailers is almost enough to get folks into the theater.
John Mahoney, who played Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce’s father on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier, died on Sunday. He was 77. In 1987 he made his feature film debut in Barry Levinson’s Tin Men. He continued to add film credits to his resume with impressive roles in iconic films such as Say Anything…, Reality Bites, In the Line of Fire, The American President, Eight Men Out as well as the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. He also appeared as Steve Carell’s father in Dan in Real Life. But it was his role in Frasier as the titular character’s fussy, unfiltered father Martin Crane that earned him the most recognition. He appeared on the show from the start in 1993 until 2004. The role earned him two Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild Award win. In addition to Frasier, Mahoney also appeared on Cheers, Becker, ER, Burn Notice, In Treatment, and Hot in Cleveland.
He was great on Frasier and seemed like a really nice guy all-around.
I really liked the last two Cloverfield movies and am surprised that, rather than release this one in theaters...they opted to take it directly to Netflix and made it available last night right after the Super Bowl. We'll see if there was a good reason for that...makes me nervous.
I love to see how digital effects are worked into TV and film and am always intrigued by the simplest scenes that you just would never imagine contain effects that end up make things look even more natural, yet not noticeable to most people.
Here's a good example from the team behind HBO's Big Little Lies...
It would never have crossed my mind that the big beachside restaurant was not a location. From every angle is just looks real.