Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer.
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Remember “The Croods”? It’s understandable if the answer is a “sure, kinda?” The 2013 animated film about a cave family in a fictional prehistoric era featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Cloris Leachman was pretty enjoyable, made a decent amount of money and even got an Oscar nomination.
Nothing earth shattering, but it wasn’t surprising that DreamWorks Animation decided to greenlight a sequel.That it took seven years to do so is, but “ The Croods: A New Age ” got
.Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer.
Refresh for more analysis, chart, etc. Even in a normal, healthy economy, the major studios are typically skittish about opening big movies before Christmas with many busy with holiday activities, so it comes as no surprise during a pandemic where just north of 40% of all 5,500 domestic movie theaters are open that there wouldn’t be any new wide openings this weekend.
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik have stayed tight-lipped about their daughter’s name after welcoming her in September, but fans think they may have sussed it out. After Gigi’s pal Taylor Swift announced her new album Evermore, eagle-eyed followers have come up with an interesting theory about the baby’s moniker – suggesting the newborn could be called Dorothea.
In the pre-COVID-19 time of February of this year, which feels about a decade ago at this point, there was an exciting announcement that the Safdie Brothers would be joining forces with Nathan Fielder for a new comedy series on Showtime. Those names alone made it an automatic must-see.
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Refresh for latest…: Sunday’s international box office reporting looks vastly different to what was expected coming into the weekend. A Friday gross that portended a high-teens launch for Monster Hunter in China was quickly thwarted when local authorities pulled the feature game adaptation from the country’s cinemas.
The Croods: A New Age is continuing to dominate at the box office.
Dave McNary Film ReporterUniversal and DreamWorks’ “The Croods: A New Age” repeated as winner of a mild post-Thanksgiving weekend with $4.4 million at 2,205 North American locations.The animated comedy sequel, featuring a voice cast of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds, has been dominating the seriously subdued moviegoing business since its Nov. 25 launch with $20.3 million in its first dozen days.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood are in for a treat, with two of the film’s biggest stars preparing a reunion. According to reports, Margot Robbie is going to replace Emma Stone in an upcoming film that stars Brad Pitt , marking the first time the two have worked together since the aforementioned 2019 hit.
Swifties, put down your magnifying glasses and your conspiracy-board string — we’ve got a false clue on our hands.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood reunion looks set to be on the cards, with reports emerging that Margot Robbie will replace Emma Stone in an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. Emma Stone has been forced to bow out of period Hollywood drama Babylon due to scheduling reasons according to Deadline, with The Suicide Squad's Margot Robbie tipped to replace her alongside Pitt.
Refresh for latest…: DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age led the weekend in China with a $19.2M debut, outpacing local titles One Second and Caught In Time. This is the third best bow for a studio movie in the Middle Kingdom during the pandemic era (behind Tenet and Mulan).
EXCLUSIVE: Despite the severe ratcheting down of movie theaters during the pandemic in recent weeks, Universal is standing strong with a robust global promotional campaign behind their DreamWorks Animation sequel The Croods: A New Age which opens today at 2,211 theaters.
DreamWorks‘ “The Croods,” inspired by Roald Dahl’s “The Twits,” wasn’t just a hit. It was a box office mega-hit, a ubiquitous phenomenon thanks to its “Ice Age” meets “The Flintstones” premise.
twist!”The OK first movie, a whopping seven years ago, sought to answer the age-old question: “What if cavemen spoke English?”The fun sequel, with a smidge more ambition than its predecessor, tacks on, “What if cavemen met non-cavemen?”Answer: hijinks, and lots of ’em.This time around, the Croods, voiced by the strange ensemble of Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone, Cloris Leachman and Clark Duke, leave home and encounter the Bettermans, a posh and more recognizably human clan.The
Recently, it was announced that Jennifer Garner and Zoe Saldana were joining Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming sci-fi, time-travel film, “The Adam Project,” over at Netflix. Well, it appears that Reynolds and filmmaker Shawn Levy were far from done adding big names to the cast, as we are now finding out more about the upcoming film and Mark Ruffalo’s involvement.
It's been seven years since DreamWorks spliced the DNA of the Ice Age franchise with The Flintstones and gave us The Croods, an amiable adventure whose vibrant 3D visuals and zippy slapstick action helped disguise the lack of smart humor in its storytelling. You might be forgiven for wondering who asked for a sequel to a film that didn't fossilize much of an impression in the animated landscape.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn the beginning, there was “The Croods,” an agreeable enough 2013 cartoon about an overprotective early man named Grug (Nicolas Cage), who was so worried about the perils of the outside world that he kept his clan confined to a cave.
admirers of 2013’s “The Croods” quite possibly never thought about it again until the announcement of “The Croods: A New Age,” opening in theaters for Thanksgiving and coming soon to streaming platforms.