dimanche 31 janvier 2016

Kung Fu Panda 3 Has 3rd Best January Opening, Star Wars Nears $2 Billion

Kung Fu Panda 3 Has 3rd Best January Opening, Star Wars Nears $2 Billion.

Kung Fu Panda 3 has 3rd best January opening, Star Wars: The Force Awakens nears $2 billion

DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 3 easily topped the domestic box office this weekend with an estimated $41 million from 3,955 theaters, an average of $10,367 per theater. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the third installment earned $10.5 million on Friday, jumped to $18.3 million on Saturday, and is projected to take in $12.2 million on Sunday. The debut marks the third-biggest January opening of all-time, trailing just American Sniper‘s wide release with $89.3 million last year and Ride Along‘s opening of $41.5 million in 2014. Made for about $145 million, the film received an A CinemaScore from audiences. Internationally, Kung Fu Panda 3 opened with $75 million of which $57 million came from China!

Compared to the previous films, Kung Fu Panda 2 opened in 2011 with $47.7 million and earned $162.5 million domestically, while the first movie brought in $60.2 million its first weekend in 2008 and brought in $215 million total. Kung Fu Panda 3 features the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim, Bryan Cranston, J.K. Simmons and Kate Hudson.

20th Century Fox also took second place with The Revenant, which dropped just 22.5% in ticket sales and earned another $12.4 million for a total of $138.2 million. Made for $135 million, the film was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter. DiCaprio was one of the SAG Awards winners last night for his performance.

Dropping a spot to third was Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The J.J. Abrams-directed film added $10.8 million domestically and $12.6 million internationally this weekend for a global total of $23.4 million. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now earned $895.4 million in North America and $1.087 billion overseas for a total of $1.983 billion. It is the #1 movie of all-time domestically, the #4 movie of all-time internationally, and the #3 movie of all-time worldwide, trailing Avatar‘s $2.788 billion and Titanic‘s $2.186 billion.

Despite receiving an A- CinemaScore, Walt Disney Pictures’ The Finest Hours debuted in fourth place with just $10.3 million from 3,143 theaters, an average of $3,286 per site. Directed by Craig Gillespie, the film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz and Eric Bana.

Universal Pictures’ action-comedy Ride Along 2, starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, dropped two spots to fifth with $8.3 million. The $40-million budgeted sequel has earned $70.8 million after three weeks.

STX Entertainment’s The Boy, directed by William Brent Bell and starring Lauren Cohan (“The Walking Dead”), added $7.9 million its second weekend in sixth place. Made for only $10 million, the horror film has earned $21.5 million so far.

Lionsgate’s Dirty Grandpa, starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron, brought in $7.6 million in the seventh spot and has earned $22.8 million after two weeks.

Sony Pictures’ The Fifth Wave, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, earned $7 million its second weekend in eighth for a total of $20.2 million. The film cost $38 million to make.

Made for just $5 million, the Fifty Shades of Grey parody Fifty Shades of Black opened in ninth place with $6.2 million from 2,075 theaters, an average of $2,982 per theater. Marlon Wayans, Kali Hawk, Mike Epps, Andrew Bachelor, Affion Crockett, Jane Seymour, Fred Willard and Florence Henderson star in the comedy.

Directed by Gavin O’Connor, The Weinstein Company’s Jane Got a Gun opened to just $803,000 in 1,210 theaters. Starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Rodrigo Santoro, Boyd Holbrook and Ewan McGregor, the film cost $25 million to make.

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samedi 30 janvier 2016

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight

Check out our Ben Affleck movies spotlight!

Before Batman takes on Superman, we’re looking back at some key Ben Affleck’s movies

Ben Affleck’s Hollywood career has run like a theme park ride, with tremendous highs and devastating lows. After breaking through with Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, Affleck steadily became one of the go-to leading men in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. But his fortunes changed for the worse around 2003, and few thought that Affleck could recover from those setbacks.

While Affleck worked steadily, it took him years before he fully reinvented himself as an actor and a director in The Town and Argo. Now, Affleck is once again one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and he’s headlining the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Bruce Wayne/Batman. It’s also been heavily rumored that Affleck may co-write and direct a new Batman movie.

Ahead of Batman v Superman’s release on March 25, ComingSoon.net is taking a look back at the major movie milestones from Affleck’s filmography, including a few that he would probably rather forget!

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Glory Daze (1995)

Glory Daze is an early one on our Ben Affleck movies list.

Glory Daze is probably not anyone’s idea of a comedy classic, but it was one of the first times that Affleck headlined an ensemble film. Affleck played Jack Freeman, a graduating college student who lived with his four best friends. Sam Rockwell, French Stewart, Vien Hong, and Vinnie DeRamus portrayed the roommates of Affleck’s character as they all confronted the question of what to do with their lives after college.

As a side note, future True Blood star Kristin Bauer also appeared in Glory Daze as Dina, the ex-girlfriend of Affleck’s character.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Chasing Amy (1997)

Chasing Amy is another one of the early Ben Affleck movies.

While Affleck had a supporting role in Kevin Smith’s previous film, Mallrats, Chasing Amy put Affleck in the lead as Holden McNeil, a struggling comic book creator who falls for another comic book artist named Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams). Undeterred by the fact that Alyssa was a lesbian, Holden actually formed a romantic relationship with her before allowing it to self-destruct over his own insecurities about her past.

It’s still one of the best films that Smith or Affleck have ever made.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Good Will Hunting (1997)

Good Will Hunting is a major turning point on the list of Ben Affleck movies.

Good Will Hunting is largely regarded as Matt Damon’s breakout role as the title character; and the film also helped Robin Williams earn his only Oscar as Sean Maguire, the man who helps Will Hunting get past his emotional issues. But this was a film that Affleck and Damon co-wrote; and Affleck also co-starred in it as Will Hunting’s best friend, Chuckie Sullivan.

To the surprise of many industry observers, Good Will Hunting was a box office hit. At the Oscars, Affleck and Damon also picked up the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Daredevil (2003)

Daredevil is only the first of the Ben Affleck movies in which the star plays a superhero.

Ben Affleck was doing superhero movies before they were cool! The problem is that director Mark Steven Johnson’s Daredevil wasn’t very faithful to the source material… and it just wasn’t a very good movie. Affleck played Matt Murdock opposite his future wife, Jennifer Garner; who portrayed Elektra. Iron Man director played Foggy Nelson, with Colin Farrell as Bullseye.

There are certainly worse superhero movies than Daredevil, and the director’s cut was an improvement on the original version. It did well enough to spawn an Elektra spinoff film, before Fox let the rights to Daredevil revert back to Marvel.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Gigli (2003)

Gigli is among the most critically reviled of all the Ben Affleck movies.

Right around this time, Affleck was frequently in tabloids because of his romance with Jennifer Lopez. “Bennifer” was so overexposed that a backlash was inevitable. Affleck and Lopez had the misfortune of co-starring together in Gigli, which epically tanked at the box office as one of the all-time bombs. Affleck and Lopez played a pair of mobsters, Larry Gigli and “Ricky,” who became romantically involved. Oh yeah, Ricky was a lesbian too… until she met Gigli.

Let’s be clear, Gigli is a pretty bad movie by any standard, but the hate it received seemed like more like a reaction to “Bennifer” than to the movie itself. Affleck and Lopez eventually broke up, and this was the point when some people actually thought that Affleck’s career as a star was over.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Hollywoodland (2006)

Hollywoodland was one of the Ben Affleck movies in which the star played a real life Superman.

If you look back on Affleck’s resume, you can hardly tell how far his standing had fallen because he still worked consistently. Hollywoodland was another small step back towards the respectability that Affleck previously had. His role in this film was George Reeves, the actor who starred in the Adventures of Superman TV series in the ’50s.

The real-life Reeves felt trapped by the role of Superman and he died under tragic circumstances, as fictionalized in this movie.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: The Town (2010)

The Town was one of the Ben Affleck movies that the star directed.

While Gone Baby Gone was Affleck’s directorial debut, The Town was the first film in which he directed himself as an actor. Affleck played Doug MacRay, a bank robbery who grew close to one of his victims, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) while attempting to learn if she could identify him and the rest of his friends as the robbers.

The Town was a nearly a blockbuster, and it garnered good reviews for Affleck and his co-star, Jeremy Renner. It also helped pave the way for Affleck’s next directorial gig.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Argo (2012)

Argo was a critically acclaimed one of the Ben Affleck movies.

During the Iran hostage crisis in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, CIA operative Tony Mendez led an inventive plan to smuggle Americans out of Iran by using a fake sci-fi film as a cover story. Argo was the fictionalized account of that story, and the name of the fake film within the movie. Affleck portrayed Tony Mendez alongside an impressive cast that included Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, and Tate Donovan.

While Affleck wasn’t nominated in the acting or directing categories, he didn’t leave empty handed on Oscar night. Argo was named 2012’s Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Gone Girl (2014)

David Fincher's Gone Girl is one of the more recent entries in our Ben Affleck movies spotlight.

Affleck’s earlier experience with the tabloids made him the perfect choice to lead the adaptation of Gone Girl. Affleck portrayed Nick Dunne, a man whose wife disappeared under suspicious circumstances… which soon causes the media to give him unwanted attention as he struggles with the pressure.

This was one of Affleck’s best performances, but he was once again snubbed by the Oscars in the acting category.

Ben Affleck Movies Spotlight: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

All these Ben Affleck movies have been moving towards the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

After Daredevil, it would be easy to understand if Affleck didn’t want to play a superhero again. But this time, Affleck is playing one of the greatest superheroes of all-time: Batman. In Batman v Superman, Bruce Wayne/Batman has a vendetta against Superman/Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) over the events depicted in Man of Steel. Considering that we know, Superman and Batman will eventually team up in Justice League – their war can’t last beyond this movie. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t make a lot of money as we watch two iconic superheroes beat the crap out of each other!

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