With China‘s National Day holiday week still in swing, the box office got an extra boost this frame thanks to the timely release of Breakup Buddies, a sort of follow-up to 2012’s smash hit Lost In Thailand. Playing on half the screens in the massive market, the film grossed just under $38M in China this weekend, sending its cume since release on September 30 to about $93M. (It also went out in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand at the weekend.) The original film was arguably responsible for a reversal in China’s fortunes in December 2012, when box office share was lagging behind that of U.S. films. That year ended with Hollywood out front but Lost In Thailand made global headlines and bolstered the unofficial practice of blackout periods when no foreign studio movies are released, allowing high-profile local titles to goose box office in the People’s Republic.
- 10/6/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
There’s been a bigger push towards sci-fi/fantasy shows on TV this year. It’s a trend that I actually welcome against the continuing glut of crime prodecurals and reality shows. Shows with fantastical elements in them and an overreaching mythology can be great when they’re well done.
I started watching “Believe” out of curiosity. The ads for it made it clear that the show was about a girl who had special powers and that there were going to be good and bad guys. Somewhere in there, they were shoehorning in some guy that had been in prison. There wasn’t much in the way of detail, just odd images of a kid yelling, a swirl of birds, and a little girl floating above her crib.
By now, of course, the special kid with special powers who is going to save the world is on of the most common tropes of the genre.
I started watching “Believe” out of curiosity. The ads for it made it clear that the show was about a girl who had special powers and that there were going to be good and bad guys. Somewhere in there, they were shoehorning in some guy that had been in prison. There wasn’t much in the way of detail, just odd images of a kid yelling, a swirl of birds, and a little girl floating above her crib.
By now, of course, the special kid with special powers who is going to save the world is on of the most common tropes of the genre.
- 5/24/2014
- by dragonwomant
- Boomtron
WWE.com
The wrestling world was injected with a feeling of excitement and anticipation during the April 7 episode of Monday Night Raw as WWE called up several of its talented young Nxt stars, including Bo Dallas, Alexander Rusev and the new Divas champion, Paige. There was one man, though, that immediately captured the attention of the WWE Universe thanks to two wonderfully produced vignettes that both helped to introduce him to the audience and instantly get him over. His name is Adam Rose and he is always the life of the party.
The man behind the character has been waiting for his call-up to the main roster for quite some time and has undergone a few character revamps in order to finally make that impression on management that would get him to the promised land. He has experienced tremendous highs, has captured championship gold and has defeated some of the...
The wrestling world was injected with a feeling of excitement and anticipation during the April 7 episode of Monday Night Raw as WWE called up several of its talented young Nxt stars, including Bo Dallas, Alexander Rusev and the new Divas champion, Paige. There was one man, though, that immediately captured the attention of the WWE Universe thanks to two wonderfully produced vignettes that both helped to introduce him to the audience and instantly get him over. His name is Adam Rose and he is always the life of the party.
The man behind the character has been waiting for his call-up to the main roster for quite some time and has undergone a few character revamps in order to finally make that impression on management that would get him to the promised land. He has experienced tremendous highs, has captured championship gold and has defeated some of the...
- 4/15/2014
- by Erik Beaston
- Obsessed with Film
The scheming is reaching a fever pitch at and around Southfork Ranch.
Bountiful proof was supplied by Monday's (March 10) episode of TNT's "Dallas," "Playing Chicken." After their meeting at which Harris Ryland (Mitch Pileggi) was revealed to be working secretly with the CIA, Ann (Brenda Strong) told Bobby (Patrick Duffy) she feared for Emma's (Emma Bell) safety. He promised that the women would "always be safe on Southfork. You can count on that."
Others might not be, though: Greed-accusing graffiti indicated an uprising by workers on the ranch over the planned fracking of the land by John Ross (Josh Henderson), who was drawn into a fight by foreman Bo (Donny Boaz). Bobby broke it up by declaring, "Southfork is a cattle ranch, not an oil field, and I intend to keep it that way. Nobody is losing their jobs."
Noticing Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) was distracted as they discussed John Ross and Pamela's wedding plans,...
Bountiful proof was supplied by Monday's (March 10) episode of TNT's "Dallas," "Playing Chicken." After their meeting at which Harris Ryland (Mitch Pileggi) was revealed to be working secretly with the CIA, Ann (Brenda Strong) told Bobby (Patrick Duffy) she feared for Emma's (Emma Bell) safety. He promised that the women would "always be safe on Southfork. You can count on that."
Others might not be, though: Greed-accusing graffiti indicated an uprising by workers on the ranch over the planned fracking of the land by John Ross (Josh Henderson), who was drawn into a fight by foreman Bo (Donny Boaz). Bobby broke it up by declaring, "Southfork is a cattle ranch, not an oil field, and I intend to keep it that way. Nobody is losing their jobs."
Noticing Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) was distracted as they discussed John Ross and Pamela's wedding plans,...
- 3/11/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
International Women's Day | Under The Skin + Jonathan Glazer Q&A | 1982 Rulez | The Hippodrome Festival Of Silent Cinema
International Women's Day, Bristol & London
Bristol's Translation/Transmission takes International women's day at face value with a documentary survey of women's activism around the world. The scope is equally diverse, from a 1970s deconstruction of Rapunzel to poet Audre Lorde's Berlin years. Each screening is accompanied by discussions and/or introductions. Taking a different tack, April's Birds Eye View film festival launches with a BFI screening of doc Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines, a celebration of female super-empowerment taking in the likes of Xena, Riot Grrrl and, of course, Lynda Carter.
Watershed, Sun to 30 Mar; BFI Southbank, SE1, Sat
Under The Skin + Jonathan Glazer Q&A, London
Blending his visual virtuosity with a mystifying Scottish sci-fi story, Glazer's latest movie is beguilingly strange and highly anticipated. But the questions just...
International Women's Day, Bristol & London
Bristol's Translation/Transmission takes International women's day at face value with a documentary survey of women's activism around the world. The scope is equally diverse, from a 1970s deconstruction of Rapunzel to poet Audre Lorde's Berlin years. Each screening is accompanied by discussions and/or introductions. Taking a different tack, April's Birds Eye View film festival launches with a BFI screening of doc Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines, a celebration of female super-empowerment taking in the likes of Xena, Riot Grrrl and, of course, Lynda Carter.
Watershed, Sun to 30 Mar; BFI Southbank, SE1, Sat
Under The Skin + Jonathan Glazer Q&A, London
Blending his visual virtuosity with a mystifying Scottish sci-fi story, Glazer's latest movie is beguilingly strange and highly anticipated. But the questions just...
- 3/8/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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