Kevin Costner, Diane Lane Thriller ‘Let Him Go’ Tops Election Week Box Office

Universal’s release of DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age stayed on target from what we saw yesterday with an opening Wednesday of $1.85M in a very broken exhibition landscape where there’s only 2,650 theaters open right now out of national footprint of 5,5K. Croods 2 is booked at 2,211 theaters.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt was a call that took Diane Keaton by surprise.Three decades after “Godfather Part III” opened to middling reviews and box office grosses, Francis Ford Coppola returned to the editing bay to tinker with a film that was largely dismissed as a disappointment.

To everyone reading this essay, if I had to venture a guess, here’s my hunch about how you’re feeling right now: You’re much angrier, or at least more exhausted, than you thought you’d be after the Nov. 3 election.

Ted Johnson CNN landed the most total viewers during primetime coverage of what turned into an election week, enough to make it its most watched week in its history.The network drew an average of 6.1 million viewers in primetime, compared to 5.9 million for Fox News and 4.8 million for MSNBC. The figures are from Nielsen and were released by CNN and Fox News.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAnchorage Capital CEO Kevin Ulrich was accused of sexually assaulting a New York woman in 2019, according to legal filings. His accuser, Jennifer Perry, discontinued the suit without prejudice a month later.In addition to running hedge fund Anchorage, Ulrich also serves as chairman of the board at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio behind the James Bond film franchise.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRefresh for latest…: With cinemas in the bulk of the European majors now dealing with a second wave of closures amid the COVID-19 crisis, international box office is again led by Asia this weekend — and should continue to be so for the foreseeable future.Japan’s runaway smash Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train is still racing along at No. 1 with a gross estimated cume approaching $200M after four weekends.

Kevin Coster and Diane Lane‘s Let Him Go is on top at the box office.

Back in the mid-1980s, Kevin Costner shopped a spec script called Dances With Wolves around town, but Hollywood wasn't buying. Westerns were mostly extinct thanks to the 1980 debacle Heaven's Gate.

Kevin Costner and Diane Lane reunite on the big screen as George and Margaret Blackledge, a couple fighting to rescue their grandson from his wicked stepfather, Donnie Weboy (Will Brittain), and his villainousfamily in the Focus Features film Let Him Go. Lesley Manville plays Blanche Weboy, the matriarch of the mysterious Weboy clan at the center of the dramatic thriller set in the 1960s.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIt’s not common for a studio specialty label to lead the weekend box office two weeks in a row, but that’s the anomaly of pandemic times and here we have Focus Features’ taking No.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAs if sensing that the election would provide enough nail-biting excitement to last Americans for days, distributors have largely backed off the first weekend in November.Focus Features is releasing a solid Kevin Costner-Diane Lane thriller with serious Red State appeal in “Let Him Go,” for those with access to theaters, and there are a number of backlogged festival movies picking this weekend to open: the best of them is “Proxima,” featuring Eva Green as a French

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs a modern Western, “Let Him Go” interweaves landscapes of the American West with domestic settings that convey the drama of the characters’ lives. The film, starring Kevin Costner as sheriff George Blackledge and Diane Lane as Maggie, shows the two as they travel across sweeping landscapes to bring their grandson home after their son dies, and take him from the Weboys family.At the heart of the film are the two houses, the Blackledge home and the Weboys home.

Booboo Stewart has a pivotal role in the new film Let Him Go and we caught up with him ahead of the theatrical release to learn more about him!

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn “Let Him Go,” Kevin Costner and Diane Lane play a longtime married midwestern couple in the 1950s who attempt to save their grandson and dead son’s widow from the violent family she married into.Costner insists viewers will be in for the same kind of ride they enjoyed with a couple of his classics.“I try to become [the moviegoer] when I’m reading the script for the first time, which is, what’s this journey going to be for somebody, and

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThis weekend, Focus Features will bring to theaters the feature adaptation of Let Him Go starring Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Oscar nominee Diane Lane.Directed and written by Thomas Bezucha, the suspense thriller is based on Larry Watson’s popular 2013 novel of the same name. The story follows retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane) after they lose their son.

From “X-Files” to “Californication”, David Duchovny is dipping his toe in politics through music, with the new track “Layin’ On The Tracks”.

anything — to get back her grandson.The film doesn’t start out so ruthless. After Margaret (Lane) and George’s (Kevin Costner) son dies from falling off a horse, leaving behind his young wife, Lorna (Kayli Carter), and newborn son, the movie falls into a therapeutic trance.