‘Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre’: Lionsgate Sets Spring Release For Guy Ritchie Action-Comedy

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Creed III” emerged victorious at the box office with its impressive $58.7 million debut, setting a franchise record while dethroning two-time champ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” It’s also a big win for theater owners, who are banking on the good fortunes to continue in March with upcoming releases “Scream VI,” “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” and “John Wick: Chapter 4.” Heading into the weekend, “Creed III” was projected to earn $36 million to $40 million, which already would have been enough to establish a new high-water mark. The first “Creed,” which re-launched the decades-old “Rocky” films in 2015, powered to $29.6 million, while its 2018 sequel “Creed II” opened to $35.5 million.

Check your local listings to find it in a theater near you.It heads to Amazon Prime on March 7 in the UK.Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.As the title “Ruse de guerre” (ruse of war) suggests, there’s plenty of scheming.

Guy Ritchie‘s new movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is now in theaters and lots of fans are ready for an action-comedy to be back in the cinema.

Television might have more highly anticipated releases coming out in March, but the film world certainly isn’t slacking with an eclectic lineup that samples from a bit of every genre. There are superheroes in two ways, from the standard DC and major studio format to the bizarre with “Smoking Causes Coughing.” Multiple tough-to-watch coming-of-age stories have made the rounds on the festival circuit as well as high-profile science fiction films looking to attract a larger audience.

2019’s “The Gentlemen,” he’d have the usually dapper Hugh Grant play a sleazy journalist who refers to England only as “Angleterre” in an East End accent, and in 2021’s “Wrath of Man” he showcased frequent collaborator Jason Statham’s ability to switch from hilarious to killing machine.With this director, we’re never so much watching an espionage or crime movie as enjoying another off-the-rails Guy Ritchie attraction. That is, until “Operation Fortune,” the co-writer and director’s most uninspired movie in a minute. Lazily bopping around to exotic locales like Cannes, France, Antalya, Turkey, and Doha, Qatar, it’s a generic collage of mega-yachts, luxe hotels, fancy parties, disguised identities and tame fights that add up to a big nothing.Worry not about your blood pressure at “Ruse de guerre.” One chase scene in sunny Antalya, with actor Max Beesley on a vespa, is downright soothing.

Michael B. Jordan joked that he apologized to his mother before images from his Calvin Klein underwear campaign were released. "I was like, my mama gon' have to see this.

When a movie gets tangled up in all kinds of financial problems, delayed for over a year, played out internationally, sent straight to streaming in Canada, and then finally getting the green light to open in the U.S. via a new distributor and thrown into theaters with virtually no notice or time to mount a marketing campaign, you have to think there must be something very wrong here.

When it comes to the genre playgrounds he loves so much, is Guy Ritchie better off being himself or playing along? His brash, bad-lad calling cards (“Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch”) were never terribly original, but their style-to-burn derivativeness had spirit. His Hollywood larks (“Sherlock Holmes,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”) never felt honest but the occasional glimpse of a bruiser’s cockiness made for colorful upgrades in the IP machinery.After Ritchie’s return to leaner (but never in the dialogue) roots with the comically shaggy, seedy gangster wingding “The Gentlemen,” and reteaming with his best contribution to cinema — Jason Statham — for the brackish vengeance puddle “Wrath of Man,” the British filmmaker is once again aiming for sleek and starry heights with the spy-driven action comedy “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.”Statham is the “Fortune” of the title, first name Orson, an elite for-hire operative with clever ideas and expensive tastes, hired by intelligence agency rep Nathan (Cary Elwes) to determine who’s interested in a stolen package rumored to be worth $10 billion on the open market.

Audiences know Guy Ritchie can direct action, they know he can write quotable, pithy dialogue, and they know he can create memorable characters. However, for the most part, “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” either fails to deliver or under-delivers on almost all fronts.

Naman Ramachandran A film of Coldplay’s sold-out 10-night concert run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium in 2022 will get a worldwide release in April from Trafalgar Releasing. The concert was part of the band’s “Music Of The Spheres” world tour, which sold more than six million tickets. The film, “Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres: Live At River Plate,” is the director’s cut of the Oct. 28, 2022 worldwide live broadcast of the show across 81 countries. It will feature remixed/remastered sound and visuals captured using 30 cameras, racing drones and 360° filming techniques, by BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic For 25 years, I have never been much of a Guy Ritchie fan. I found the in-your-face-and-over-the-top crime dramas that made his reputation — “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” and “RocknRolla” — to be empty-flashy exercises in the too-muchness of genre kinetics, overly infatuated with their post-Tarantino cutthroat cool. It was clear that Ritchie had talent, but the way just about every shot in his movies was designed to remind you of that turned the films into layer cakes that were more frosting than cake. After a while, he dropped the badass glitz and settled into a more conventional career, and some of those movies were okay. I confess that I enjoyed his remake of “Swept Away” (yes, the one with Madonna), and he had fun applying what was left of his high-froth ADD style to the Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes” franchise. Yet I could never escape the feeling that Guy Ritchie had trapped himself on a hamster wheel of trying too hard. I’ve liked a few of his films. But I’ve never loved one.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” a documentary about Brooke Shields and the sexual objectification she endured as a child actor, will release on Hulu on April 3. In the two-part documentary, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the actor and model opens up for the first time about her earliest experiences in Hollywood. The film tracks her rise as a child advertising model to her sexualization in movies, starting at age 12, in “Pretty Baby” (1978), and then at 15, in “The Blue Lagoon” (1980). “I spent my life owing people things and doing whatever they wanted,” Shields says in a new teaser dropped Wednesday morning. “I finally asked myself, ‘What will I be if I don’t allow that anymore?'”

Doja Cat smiled in a photo on Instagram while wearing a top from I.AM.GIA.Suki Waterhouse posed in a red Maison Atia Genevieve trench coat on Instagram. Seth Rogen, Lauren Miller Rogen and Hilarity for Charity hosted their 3rd annual CareCon event, a free virtual event that had almost 2,000 registrants, on National Caregiver’s Day, where attendees enjoyed appearances from Howie Mandel, Nicole Byer, Wayne Brady, Joey McIntyre and Judy Greer. Rumer Willis spoke about her pregnancy on Kimberly Van Der Beek and Peggy Rometo’s new podcast, .Emma Chamberlain starred in the Aritzia Sunday Best Spring 23 campaign and collection, which features the social media star in a four-part video series, “Sunday Musing," that showcases new Sunday Best styles including poplin dresses, ribbed tees, pleated miniskirts, and more.JAY-Z had dinner with friends at etta Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they enjoyed meatballs, pizza, pasta, branzino, and crab. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wore the Alo Gold rush Puffer Vest and Alo Airlift High-Waist Elongated Legging in black while out in London.Hailey Bieber wore a Wardrobe NYC Cargo Mini Skirt and Magda Butrym Flower Sandal from FWRD to the Moncler Genius show during London Fashion Week in London.Madison Beer and Madelyn Cline shared their love for the PanOxyl Acne Foaming Wash, a powerful daily cleanser that works to clear inflammatory acne and kills over 99% of acne-causing bacteria in 15 seconds.Addison Rae rocked a low rise mini skirt by Danielle Guizio while posing for a photo on Instagram.Catherine Zeta-Jones wore a Cristina Ottaviano gown to the premiere of in London.Julia Garner had her hair styled by Bobby Eliot, who used Fable & Mane products for her look, for the 29th Annual SAG

Doja Cat smiled in a photo on Instagram while wearing a top from I.AM.GIA.Suki Waterhouse posed in a red Maison Atia Genevieve trench coat on Instagram. Seth Rogen, Lauren Miller Rogen and Hilarity for Charity hosted their 3rd annual CareCon event, a free virtual event that had almost 2,000 registrants, on National Caregiver’s Day, where attendees enjoyed appearances from Howie Mandel, Nicole Byer, Wayne Brady, Joey McIntyre and Judy Greer. Rumer Willis spoke about her pregnancy on Kimberly Van Der Beek and Peggy Rometo’s new podcast, .Emma Chamberlain starred in the Aritzia Sunday Best Spring 23 campaign and collection, which features the social media star in a four-part video series, “Sunday Musing," that showcases new Sunday Best styles including poplin dresses, ribbed tees, pleated miniskirts, and more.JAY-Z had dinner with friends at etta Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they enjoyed meatballs, pizza, pasta, branzino, and crab. Hailey Bieber wore a Wardrobe NYC Cargo Mini Skirt and Magda Butrym Flower Sandal from FWRD to the Moncler Genius show during London Fashion Week in London.Madison Beer and Madelyn Cline shared their love for the PanOxyl Acne Foaming Wash, a powerful daily cleanser that works to clear inflammatory acne and kills over 99% of acne-causing bacteria in 15 seconds.Addison Rae rocked a low rise mini skirt by Danielle Guizio while posing for a photo on Instagram.Catherine Zeta-Jones wore a Cristina Ottaviano gown to the premiere of in London.Julia Garner had her hair styled by Bobby Eliot, who used Fable & Mane products for her look, for the 29th Annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles, California. Paige Lorenze launched a new camo hoodie collection, featuring three different colors for her brand,

Creed III is hitting theaters on Friday and the cast stepped out for the L.A. premiere ahead of the release!

For years now, we’ve been seeing reports of movement on another sequel to Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” film franchise. But with all the talk of development, we have yet to see anything official that would suggest that Robert Downey, Jr.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Adonis Creed, like Rocky Balboa before him, is a fighter who faces down his demons and finds his triumph-of-the-human-spirit mojo, all leading up to his inevitable delivery of that knockout punch (well, okay, Rocky actually lost the fight in “Rocky”). The first two “Creed” films, like the six “Rocky” films, were rah-rah crowd-pleasers, with the hero taking on an adversary who represents the forces of darkness. The boxing foes in these movies are a little like comic-book supervillains: Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago, Drago’s vengeful son, and so on. They’ve been catchy and, at times, memorable characters, but it’s part of their appeal that they’re two-dimensional raging-bull enemies you would hardly rank as layered human beings.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Alexander Payne’s comedy “The Holdovers” is landing in theaters in time for Thanksgiving. Focus Features will begin rolling out the film on Nov. 10 in select markets before expanding nationwide on Wednesday, Nov. 22, ahead of Turkey Day. It’ll play in theaters alongside Disney’s animated adventure “Wish,” which debuts on the same day, as well as “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and Universal’s “Trolls 3,” which open the week prior. “The Holdovers” reunites Payne with Paul Giamatti for the first time since their 2004 Oscar-winning film “Sideways.” In the upcoming movie, Giamatti plays a curmudgeonly instructor at an elite New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the students with nowhere to go. He eventually forms an unlikely bond with a damaged, brainy troublemaker (played by newcomer Dominic Sessa) and the head cook (portrayed by Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

Those familiar with stand-up comedy know Bert Kreischer as a hard-partying, tall tale-telling, and often shirtless comic who’s good friends with Bill Burr and Tom Segura. He’s loud, rowdy, and otherwise known as “The Machine,” a nickname which may be Kreischer’s most infamous bit.

The trailer for Guy Ritchie‘s new action-comedy has been released!