‘The Croods: A New Age’ Production Designer on Giving the Prehistoric Setting a Modern Twist

making homophobic comments about a colleague in the chat section of a Zoom class last month.The names of the teachers, all employees of Dumont High School in Dumont, N.J., were not made public, although the school district’s business administrator, Kevin Cartotto, announced the suspensions during a public meeting at the high school last Thursday.Cartotto said the district decided to hand out the suspensions following an investigation into the alleged comments, but had to continue to pay the

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.

Lisa Montgomery's new execution date for her conviction in a Missouri womb-raiding case that horrified investigators and the small town where it happened has been put off until next month. The U.S.

Serena Williams, 39, shared a sweet moment with her smart daughter Olympia, 3, in a new Instagram video on Dec. 7 and it has her followers swooning over how adorable the tot is! In the memorable clip, the tennis champ is sitting down in a white tee as her mini-me, who appears to be dressed as Snow White from the Disney movie, puts what appears to be a white syringe-shaped object up to her nose.

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.

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.

Bill Nye is reminding us all about the importance of wearing masks as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

NJ Advance Media. “Is that her adopted kid? Who is gonna be all fucked up growing up watching 2 chicks kissing and calling them both mom,” said another.Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno condemned the disparaging comments, saying in a Facebook post that the comments were ‘disturbing and extremely appalling” and calling on Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano to investigate the matter.LaBruno said in the post that after speaking to Triggiano, the superintendent assured him that the incident “is being taken

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).

While the pandemic is continuing to sap the box office of its strength, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s “The Croods: A New Age” is showing opening weekend numbers similar to what “Tenet” showed nearly three months ago, earning a three-day opening weekend of $9.7 million and an extended 5-day Thanksgiving opening of $14.2 million from 2,211 screens.By comparison, “Tenet” earned a $20.2 million extended opening on Labor Day weekend, though that figure included additional days of preview

DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age looks set to lead the weekend in China where the cume an estimated $11.6M through its first two days, and pre-sales are solid. This portends an FSS frame of $20M, per Uni, with family uptick throught the weekend . Six other markets are also getting a first look at the prehistoric family pic that’s directed by Joel Crawford, and are expected to round out the global session total to $21.3M.

Also Read: 'The Croods: A New Age' Film Review: The Laughs Keep Evolving in Animated SequelWhile “Croods 2” will provide a small degree of revenue for theaters that are still trying to fend off closures, this Thanksgiving weekend is a far cry from last year’s, which saw “Frozen II” top the charts with a $125 million 5-day total while newcomer “Knives Out” contributed $41 million.

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.

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.

As millions of Californians are traveling and gathering for Thanksgiving, the state is experiencing an unprecedented surge in infections, hospitalizations and test positivity.

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.

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.

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