In a textbook counter-programming move this weekend, a period drama aimed at older audiences delivered a top-10 debut at a domestic marketplace dominated by blockbusters for Gen Z crowds. This past weekend, the holdover horror blockbuster Obsession delivered its second successive revenue uptick and passed the coveted $100 million mark at the domestic box office. Its trajectory has been unprecedented, and it's safe to say that the microbudget sensation is one of the greatest box-office success stories of the modern era. It was joined this weekend by fellow horror title Backrooms, which shattered expectations and broke numerous records in its debut frame. Also directed by a man in his 20s who honed his skills on YouTube before leaping to feature filmmaking, Backrooms delivered a grand debut in the same league as Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimerand Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two.
The internet is buzzing with the return of ‘90s silver screen king and Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser. In addition to his refreshingly unproblematic public persona, fans are really just thrilled to have the actor back in action, from his upcoming World War II thriller, Pressure, where he plays General Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower, to his long-awaited reprise of Rick O’Connell in the untitled Mummy 4.
After a solid opening weekend at the domestic box office, during which it outperformed last year's Nuremberg, the new World War II drama-thriller film Pressurehas passed the lifetime haul of another beloved WWII movie. The appetite for a good historical war movie seems to vary depending on when it's released — for instance, these movies typically did better at the box office a couple of decades ago. But, in recent years, the audience for WWII content seems to have moved almost entirely to streaming. This past week was a major one for the genre, beginning with the History Channel documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks and ending with Pressure, which grossed more than $5.5 million in its first weekend.
The British obsession with the weather goes from an easily mocked national quirk to a world-beating point of pride in “Pressure,” a handsome, efficient WWII drama that doesn’t go quite so far as to say a weatherman won the war, but wouldn’t mind one bit if that’s what you came away believing. The “weatherman,” in […]
If you have seen Oscar-winning accounts of the June 6, 1944, seaborne invasion in Normandy, known as D-Day, in classic films like Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and 1962’s all-star epic The Longest Day, you probably believe you know all you need to know about that fateful day that changed world history. Think again. Just […]
You think you know what Andy Garcia’s Diamond is going to be right from the opening scenes as we meet ’40s-style, fedora-wearing private eye Joe Diamond (Garcia), who looks, talks and walks like he is in a film noir, the kind of B&W Bogart and Mitchum regularly gravitated to. He’s all business in his aging […]
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