Bullet Train builds momentum to claim Number 1 on the Official Film Chart this week in a high-speed race to the top.
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“Jurassic Park” was one of them.Trevorrow, who directed both 2015’s “Jurassic World” and 2022’s “Jurassic World: Dominion,” explained in an interview with Empire that “There probably should have only been one Jurassic Park.”Steven Spielberg launched the franchise with the original movie in 1993. That spawned two more films, “The Lost World” (1997) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001).
Then came the three Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard-fronted “Jurassic World” movies — two of which Trevorrow directed himself. Still, the 46-year-old told the mag that the concept of the films is “inherently un-franchisable,” and so he took a different approach with the storyline of this year’s release.“If we’re gonna do it, how can I allow them to tell stories in a world in which dinosaurs exist, as opposed to, here’s another reason why we’re going to an island?” Trevorrow recalled asking himself.“When it came to ‘Dominion,’ I specifically did something different than the other films in order to change the DNA of the franchise,” he explained. “The previous five films are plots about dinosaurs.
This one is a story about characters in a world in which they coexist with dinosaurs.”Prior to its release, critics trashed the new installment calling it “hokey as hell” and “so bad.”But Trevorrow also admitted that another film piggybacking off “Dominion’s” success — which has already joined the billion-dollar box-office club — is inevitable due to money-hungry higher ups. “Of course they’re gonna want to make more money, which is what ‘Jurassic World’ was about – a new dinosaur fan is born every day.
Bullet Train builds momentum to claim Number 1 on the Official Film Chart this week in a high-speed race to the top.
Zack Sharf “Black Adam” is rated PG-13 for “sequences of strong violence, intense action and some language,” but it turns out the first several cuts of the film were even more violent. Producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia confirmed to Collider that “Black Adam” originally earned an R rating and it took “four rounds” of cuts for the MPA to agree to lower the rating to the team’s desired PG-13. The crew always knew it wanted “Black Adam” to push the limits of PG-13 violence considering the title character’s comic book roots. “We really wanted to make sure that we honored the character of Black Adam,” Garcia said. “One of the things he’s known for is his aggression and violence, and to do a Black Adam movie that didn’t have that just wouldn’t have been authentic. So we always went into this knowing that we were going to push it as far as we did.”
EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo del Toro will add a further string to his bow this season as part of the songwriting team behind the music of Pinocchio. Del Toro directs his warm and wild stop-motion animated adaptation of the classic story from Carlo Collodi with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). It is a project the Oscar-winning filmmaker has nurtured for years, and he also co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick McHale. The film makes its world premiere at the London Film Festival on Saturday.
Roaring up to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart is Jurassic World Dominion, which rises two to claim the top spot for the first time.
Tricia Tuttle will step down as BFI Festivals Director following this year’s London Film Festival, the BFI announced today. She will remain in post through to early 2023 while the BFI recruits a replacement.
The Sanderson sisters are back and bewitching as ever in “Hocus Pocus 2”, the long-awaited sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic.
Note: The following contains spoilers for the ending of “Blonde” and discussion of self-harm.Filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe film “Blonde” is now streaming on Netflix after years of anticipation and controversy, and when it comes to depicting Monroe’s demise at the end of the movie, Dominik had to make a decision about what he believed happened to her.As the film comes to a close, Ana de Armas’ Marilyn Monroe is in a fragile emotional state when she receives a package from former lover Cass (Xavier Samuel), which he left to her when he died. The box contains a memento from her childhood and a letter which reads, “There never was a Tearful father,” suggesting all those letters she received from her “father” were from him.
Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion recently crossed the $1B mark at the global box office, one of only three films to hit that milestone since the start of the Covid pandemic, a feat all the more impressive considering that its director seems to have had some serious doubts about the viability of the franchise from the start.
, the long-awaited sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic.Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker reprise their roles as Winnifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson, respectively, in the new film, which finds the trio resurrected once again by a group of teen friends — Becca (Whitney Peak), Cassie (Lilia Buckingham), and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) — who light a new version of the infamous Black Flame Candle.However, when they return to wreak havoc on Salem — this time seeking revenge on the town's mayor, a descendant of the puritanical reverend who originally exiled them (both played by Tony Hale) — they find that a few things have changed.For one, the Sanderson Witch Museum has been reopened as a magic shop, run by a man named Gilbert (Sam Richardson), who claims to have witnessed the witches' first night of mayhem back in the '90s. But that's far from the only callback to the original.
Zack Sharf “Jurassic World Dominion” recently crossed the coveted $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, making it the third consecutive film in the franchise to hit that milestone. Moviegoers around the world seemingly can’t get enough of the “Jurassic” movies, but “Dominion” director Colin Trevorrow recently suggested to Empire magazine that none of the sequels should’ve even been made. In Trevorrow’s own words, the “Jurassic” franchise “probably” should’ve started and ended with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original. “I specifically did something different than the other films in order to change the DNA of the franchise,” Trevorrow said about “Jurassic World Dominion.” “The previous five films are plots about dinosaurs. This one is a story about characters in a world in which they coexist with dinosaurs.”
“Jurassic World: Dominion” hit theaters this summer as a culmination of sorts for the franchise. For one, it marked an end to the trilogy Colin Trevorrow oversaw since 2015’s “Jurassic World.” But it also brought together “Jurassic Park” characters of old like Sam Neill‘s Alan Grant, Laura Dern‘s Ellie Sattler, and fan-favorite Jeff Goldblum‘s Ian Malcolm to tie up loose ends.
True-crime films are all the rage nowadays. Thanks to streamers like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and the rest, film and TV libraries are filled to the brim with docuseries and narrative projects about real-life criminal activity.
A new reimagined version of The Wizard of Oz, that will include LGBTQI characters, is set to begin production with Black-ish creator and writer Kenya Barris at the helm.In an interview with Variety, Barris said, “The original was an allegory and a reflection of the way the world was at the time with things like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.”“Now we’re going to turn a mirror on where we’re at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQI community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world. I think this is the best time to do that,” Barris said. When asked who he envisioned casting in the upcoming film, Barris told Essence,“No one that you would think. I know people feel like they know what we’re going to do, so I want to do something totally different.” Kenya Barris.Barris will also pen the script for the film which is being produced by his production company, Khalabo Ink Society, for Warner Brothers. The new film is based upon L.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Never doubt dinosaurs. “Jurassic World Dominion,” the latest installment in Universal’s Tyrannosaurus-sized film franchise, has finally crossed $1 billion globally. It took more than four months to get there, making “Dominion” one of the slowest films to gross $1 billion in its original run. Other blockbusters that reached $1 billion after three months, or longer, of playing on the big screen include “Finding Dory,” “Zootopia” and “Frozen.” That’s relatively quick compared to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” which needed at least two decades and a few re-releases to join the club. But hey, a win is a win. To date, “Jurassic World Dominion” has collected $376 million at the domestic box office and $624 million internationally. Only three movies — including “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Top Gun: Maverick” — hit the billion-dollar mark in pandemic times. Unlike those films, “Dominion” had the advantage of playing in China, where it brought in $157 million.
The dinosaurs have done it as Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion crossed the $1B mark at the global box office with Thursday’s business included. It took a little while, but that shouldn’t diminish that this makes the Colin Trevorrow-directed installment one of only three films to the milestone since the beginning of the pandemic. It is the No. 2 film of 2022 behind Top Gun: Maverick.
Apparently, Bryce Dallas Howard had to deal with a lot more than just getting paid significantly less than her co-star Chris Pratt behind the scenes of the Jurassic World franchise!
Bryce Dallas Howard is proud of her body and the action-packed stunts she was able to deliver in . But in a new interview, the 41-year-old actress opens up about facing body scrutiny while filming the third and final film in Universal's dinosaur-based trilogy. Asked about what her role as Claire Dearing means for female representation in action films, Howard tells Metro that she had «been asked not to use my natural body in cinema.» Clarifying, she continues, «On the third movie, it was actually because there were so many women cast, it was something that [director] Colin [Trevorrow] felt very strongly about in terms of protecting me…because the conversation came up again, 'We need to ask Bryce to lose weight.'» She credits Trevorrow with not only being in her corner during those conversations with unnamed filmmakers, but pushing for wider representation overall. «He was like, 'There are lots of different kinds of women on this planet and there are lots of different kinds of women in our film,'» she says, «and I got to do so many stunts that wouldn’t have been possible if I had been dieting.»Howard says she was «thrilled» at the on-screen action she was able to perform. «I got to do it with my body, she was at her maximum strength, and I hope it is just yet another indication of what's possible,» she says of her character. «In this movie, there were more women than men.
Bryce Dallas Howard was told to lose weight for 'Jurassic World'. The 45-year-old actress returned to her role as Claire Dearing for the third time in 'Jurassic World: Dominion' earlier this year but claimed she had been forbidden from using her "natural body" on screen in earlier movies and the same almost happened again until the director Colin Trevorrow intervened. She said: "What being in this third film allowed, how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this…[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema.
Naman Ramachandran Hindi-language “Maja Ma,” starring Bollywood icon Madhuri Dixit Nene, is the first of many Indian original films from Amazon Prime Video, Aparna Purohit, the head of India originals for the streamer, has revealed. The film is a Prime Video commission, as opposed to an acquisition. “We have been acquiring films, we have been putting films straight on our service and over the last two years, we put almost 60 films out and we also bought into co-productions. Producing our own films was the next logical step,” Purohit told Variety. Next up are films in the Telugu and Tamil languages, with films in Malayalam and Kannada being explored. “We want to tell stories that are truly rooted in our soil, stories that are compelling, that are differentiated, in the hands of very passionate creators – story being the starting point for every decision. That’s the strategy,” said Purohit. “And we want to really delight our audiences spread across the length and breadth of the country.”