‘Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions’ Unlocks $1.2M Thursday Night

Refresh for updates…Disney is reporting $2.7M for its Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise off 7PM shows. A24’s Dev Patel fantasy movie Green Knight came up strong with $750K at 2,790 theaters.

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Toronto International Film organizers declared two weeks ago they will be welcoming back in-person audiences for a fest that will run from September 9-18. This after Canada made an exemption to allow for the National Hockey League playoffs to happen in country, and more recently that the Toronto Blue Jays will resume playing in the ballpark on Blue Jay Way by the end of the month.

(This article contains only the biggest of spoilers for “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions”)“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” is nothing if not very fast-paced — it’s a movie that simply refuses to let you ponder what’s going on, because before you’re able to process a character death, for example, the film has already moved on to the next thing.The “Escape Room” sequel catches up with Zoe (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) more or less where we left them: trying to live their lives

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorReturning director Adam Robitel had production designer Edward Thomas raise the stakes for the sequel to 2019’s “Escape Room.” The new challenges in “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” in theaters July 16, include a subway train, a gorgeous vacation beach that soon turns into quicksand and a high-security bank.Thomas found an old art deco building in Cape Town, South Africa, to serve as the bank.

Netflix’s “Lost in Space,” indies like “Waves” and the “Escape Room” movies, the latest of which is out this weekend. But she’s quickly establishing herself as one to watch.“She’s incapable of hitting a false note,” said “Escape Room” director Adam Robitel.

“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” Columbia Pictures’ psychological horror sequel, earned $1.2 million in Thursday night previews at the box office from early shows starting at 3 p.m. in 2,382 locations.

“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” is a tricky sequel, starting with gauging just how successful it truly is. Like with the 2019 original, “Escape Room,” its hand-holding horror can be nifty and surprising, but it’s even less of a challenge to forget about as soon as it’s over.

Black Widow” instead. Run for your lives — and sanity!That’s because it’s the rare horror franchise that satisfies zero criteria of what we want from a freaky movie.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe only one of several same-titled movies in recent years to make a significant commercial dent, Adam Robitel’s 2019 “Escape Room” proved a considerable sleeper hit, making back many times its modest $9 million budget. Ergo “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” which brings back the first edition’s director, surviving characters and other elements in another primarily South Africa-shot U.S.

exactly the way the designers intended. These aren’t movies about protagonists undergoing a meaningful transformation.

FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for more analysis No, streaming hasn’t killed theatrical just yet, and those exhibitors who’ve gone hungry over the last year and half, received lots of bread last night. Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow kicked off its previews at 5PM earning a huge $13.2M, easily the best preview night to date during the pandemic besting Universal’s F9 ($7.1M) and Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II ($4.8M).

Valve‘s popular competitive game Dota 2 has got the go ahead on a new location for its yearly tournament, The International, with a £29million ($40million USD) prize pool.The tenth International (TI10) for Dota 2 is going to be held at the Arena Nationala in Bucharest, Romania, and will begin on October 7.The group stage will run until October 10, with the main stage beginning on October 12, and the finals planned for October 17.

Bucket hat queen Rihanna stepped out for a date night with A$AP Rocky in New York on July 7 with a stylish accessory: a $495 mint green Prada bucket hat. The Fenty Beauty founder, 33, was photographed getting into a white vehicle with A$AP, real name Rakim Athelaston Mayers, 32, behind the wheel on Wednesday evening, preparing to paint the town red — or, you know, mint green.

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