Box Office: "Bullet Train" off to slow-ish start, "Bodies Bodies Bodies" big in limited release

by Nathaniel R

With no major competition, the action flick Bullet Train (reviewed) easily won the weekend but the results were mixed. $30 million is a good opening but is it good for this sort of film? That's debatable. Brad Pitt titles sometimes develop good legs so the second weekend hold (or lack thereof) will tell us more...

Weekend Box Office  August 5th-7th 🔺 = new or expanding /  ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it
WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS)	PLATFORM RELEASES
BULLET TRAIN	BODIES BODIES BODIES
1 🔺 BULLET TRAIN  $30 *NEW*	1  MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON $345k (cum. $4.9)

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Reviews: "Bullet Train" and "Thirteen Lives"

by Nathaniel R

Whenever we're about to go thumbs down on two movies, we feel the need to reiterate that we genuinely love the cinema. Even when we don't love a movie, we're (usually) glad we went. But sometimes you want to love a movie (Thirteen Lives), and it just isn't worthy. Other times you go in, fully expecting a great love (Bullet Train) but the movie is too narcissistic and cocksure to even notice you're watching it in time to love you back...

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Showbiz History: Winona's debut, Angelina's first wedding, and Gaga's next movies

5 random things that happend on this day, March 28th, in showbiz history...

1920 It's the "marriage of the century" as silent superstars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford wed. Their marriage last only 16 years but their only child together is still going strong: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

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Links: An Amy Adams Double, Nolan Rankings, and Homosexual Erasure

Must Reads
• Vulture Rachel Handler hilariously ranks Christopher Nolan's movies by how willing she would be to die for the privilege of seeing them in movie theaters.
• The Hollywood Report looks back at the making of X-Men (2000) and how it created a monster with young director Bryan Singer

More after the jump including Amy Adams-centric news, "Do You Have the Antibodies?" a hit waiting to happen, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's failures, a new Brad Pitt project and more...

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