Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson have landed in Tokyo, Japan for the latest Bullet Train press stop!
08.08.2022 - 18:49 / nypost.com
Bullet Train” is currently racing to the top of the box office, raking in nearly $13 million in receipts on opening night alone. Fans are already abuzz about director David Leitch scoring a few eye-popping celebrity cameos.[Warning: Major spoilers ahead.]Pitt, 58, stars as hired hitman Ladybug who boards a bullet train to retrieve a case and encounters several people along the journey trying to end his life.Lieitch’s colorful yet bloody crowdpleaser co-stars Bad Bunny, Joey King and Aaron Taylor-Johnson — but the filmmaker knew he needed some high-powered bonus attractions, too.“When you pay your money and you go to the theater, you want to have a fun time,” Leitch, 46, told Insider of his desire to score secret celeb scene-stealers.
“So looking at ‘Hobbs and Shaw,’ or the last ‘Deadpool,’ and this movie, cameos really work for me and I embrace them.”The “John Wick” helmer added: “I look for pockets of opportunity, we look for relationships with the actors on set. If the material feels like it’s right, I’m leaning in.
You paid your money, you want to be surprised.”Pitt’s fellow leading men led the surprise attack pack: Both Channing Tatum, 42, and Ryan Reynolds, 45, made unsuspecting viewers’ jaws drop when they appeared on screen amid the gory fighting and snarky one-liners.Tatum plays a train commuter who has a quirky but kinky side that lusts after Pitt’s character. Reynolds — who starred in Leitch’s 2018 superhero flick “Deadpool 2” — also appeared as the assassin named Carver.Carver was originally supposed to be on the train instead of Ladybug.
While his name is mentioned throughout the film, his identity is not revealed until the twisty conclusion. Leitch also revealed how pre-existing friendships between these
.Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson have landed in Tokyo, Japan for the latest Bullet Train press stop!
Brad Pitt, who is in South Korea promoting amid a 2016 FBI report in which Angelina Jolie accused him of assault. The 58-year-old actor on Thursday visited Seoul for the premiere of the action comedy film at Yongsan CGV. Pitt looked carefree as he sported a smile from ear to ear.
Bullet Train is the number one movie at the box office this weekend and it’s going to be a big hit for director David Leitch and star Brad Pitt.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Bullet Train,” a hyperviolent action thriller with Brad Pitt providing the propulsion, racked up $32.4 million at the international box office.The Sony Pictures release, which carries a hefty $90 million budget, has earned $62.5 million worldwide over its opening weekend. The studio says that those results indicate the film in on pace to match hits such as “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” Pitt’s latest effort was available in 73% of the international market or more than 15,900 screens. It was the top-grossing global release of the weekend.“Bullet Train,” a star-studded film about battling assassins, performed best in the U.K., where it had a 5-day total of $3.5 million, followed by France with $3.1 million and Mexico with $3 million.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Bullet Train,” a John Wick-ian romp with Brad Pitt in the aisle seat, arrived in theaters with a $30.1 million opening weekend. That’s enough to top the domestic box office chart, but it’s only a so-so result given “Bullet Train’s” $90 million price tag and Pitt’s star power.
end of the line. In simpler terms: you want to know if “Bullet Train” has a post-credits scene.With a film as convoluted and tangled — and well, silly — as “Bullet Train,” it’s hard not to expect some kind of post-credits footage. Especially considering that “Deadpool 2” director David Leitch helmed this movie too; he’s obviously no stranger to post-credit scenes.
This is it. This is pretty much the end of summer.
Bad Bunny -- or Benito A Martínez Ocasio when he's on the big screen — is feeling grateful for his feature film debut in.On Monday, the «Tití Me Preguntó» rapper walked his first film red carpet. “I’m very grateful,” the 28-year-old Latin music superstar told ET’s Nischelle Turner during the premiere in Los Angeles. Although he has had roles in and, is the first time he gets to shine in a larger role. “I’m happy.
Bullet Train” star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, working on set of the action-packed Brad Pitt film was a strenuous yet hilarious adventure. That is, until an on-set accident landed him in the hospital.“I was on some crazy mad Keto diet,” Taylor-Johnson told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere of “Bullet Train” on Monday night. “Because I got all scrawny and lean for this, so I basically had low blood sugar levels.
Right from the start, you know exactly what you are in for with Bullet Train, a non-stop mix of violence, comedy, and more violence, Japanese-style, as filtered through the lens of director David Leitch, a stuntman turned filmmaker whose past credits of Atomic Blonde, Fast & Furious: Hobbs And Shaw, and Deadpool 2 pretty much prepare you for what to expect here. However, even though this was mostly shot on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, with some killer production design and a cool train courtesy of David Scheunemann, it undoubtedly feels we are in Tokyo where I am sure the Sony bosses were delighted with the dailies as they came in. Unfortunately, from my vantage point this just seems like a lark for star Brad Pitt, coming off an Oscar for the far superior Quentin Tarantino masterpiece, also from Sony, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the underrated Ad Astra, both pre-pandemic in 2019. His most notable appearance since has been in a comedic supporting role in The Lost City with Sandra Bullock who returns the favor here in a mostly voiceover role as his “handler,” therapist, self help guide, guru – whatever you want to call her – who is constantly guiding him through the messes he gets himself into.
rock a skirt at the German premiere of his new comedy-action flick “Bullet Train” last month.The “Fight Club” star showed off his tattoos on the Berlin red carpet on July 19 where he sported a light pink shirt, combat boots, a brown kilt and a matching jacket.At Monday’s Los Angeles premiere of “Bullet Train,” Pitt revealed why he opted for the style choice.“I don’t know! We’re all going to die, so let’s mess it up,” he told Variety.For Monday’s bash, the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actor wore a green suit and yellow sneakers.Pitt previously described why he decided to wear a skirt at the Berlin show last month, jokingly telling the Associated Press: “The breeze. The breeze.”The David Leitch film stars Pitt as a hitman who has encountered several killers aboard a fast-moving train. Sandra Bullock, Logan Lerman, Bad Bunny, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry also appear in the movie.The father of six also revealed to the outlet how the movie’s violence is an ongoing theme throughout the plot and how he was happy to let his stuntman do some of the more hardcore moves dusting shooting.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto takes about two hours and 15 minutes — just the right amount of time to pull off a cartoonishly over-the-top action movie, in which half a dozen assassins shoot, stab and otherwise perforate each other’s pretty little faces in pursuit of a briefcase stuffed with cash. It’s a high-stakes game of hot potato, choreographed and executed by “Atomic Blonde” director David Leitch, in which a self-deprecating Brat Pitt wears a bucket hat and oversized specs, Bryan Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson play bickering “twin” hitmen Lemon and Tangerine, and “The Princess” wedding crasher Joey King (known here as “the Prince”) is a cunning killer who can fake-cry on command.
Bullet trains seem great; why don’t we have them in the United States? Will I ever get to see Mount Fuji? I wonder what flavors of Kit Kats they sell on that train?These thoughts occurred because my brain refused to engage with this glib, terminally self-satisfied blood-and-bullets extravaganza, one that feels like it was plucked from what we might call the “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” period of American cinema, when Quentin Tarantino’s first two features emboldened far too many young filmmakers to think that they, too, could make a zippy comedy with excessive gunplay, explicit gore, pop-culture references, needle drops, and a briefcase full of cash.Having programmed a film festival from 1995 to 1999, I was subjected to more bad “Reservoir Dogs” wannabes than the average filmgoer, which might explain why this new film turned me off early and never won me back. “Bullet Train” pretty much leaves no cliché of this subgenre unturned, from swoopy, self-conscious camera moves to a shootout scored to an innocuous hit single of the past.
Brad Pitt is quite the experience, just ask Joey King. The 23-year-old actress stars opposite Pitt in the high-octane action comedy, directed by David Leitch, about five assassins aboard the same bullet train out of Tokyo. While working with an icon left her feeling jittery about her first day, King says she was most surprised to find out how «amazingly normal» Pitt is in real life. «I was overwhelmed and a little intimidated when I first came on to this project,» King tells ET's Nischelle Turner at the film's Los Angeles premiere on Monday night.
It has been more than a quarter of a century since “Pulp Fiction,” and I am on my knees, begging filmmakers to stop trying to ape early Tarantino. Seriously, stop it.
Brad Pitt is hitting the red carpet for the L.A. premiere of his new movie.
Joey King and Brad Pitt, the cast of are so close they've decided to start a band!The actors walked the red carpet at the premiere at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday, and spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner about bonding while filming and the subsequent promotional tour.«We get along so well, it's just really, really fun,» King marveled with a smile. «We've got Brad, who just sets the tone.
Brad Pitt is hitting the red carpet for the L.A. premiere of his new movie.