‘The Seventh Day’, ‘Six Minutes To Midnight’ Bring More Light To Specialty Box Office

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It has been months since we’ve really been able to give good news regarding the box office, but thanks to Adam Wingard’s MonsterVerse extravaganza, “Godzilla vs. Kong,” North American theaters are finally starting to show some signs of life.

Antonio Ferme editorThe winners of the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on April 4. As a result of the pandemic, the 27th annual ceremony looked quite different than previous years, trimmed down to one hour instead of its typical two.

The Vaughn Stein-directed psychological thriller Every Breath You Take made its theatrical premiere this weekend on 106 screens and added some coins to the specialty box office piggy bank. The film, which also landed on VOD this weekend, is on track to earn an estimated $35K with its debut.

Golden Globe and Grammy winners. Next up: Those big Hollywood SAGs.The 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards are set to air on Sunday, April 4, at 6 p.m.

After a year of closures, false starts, and seemingly endless waiting, Warner Bros./Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” has given the box office and movie theater owners reason to cheer.

Godzilla vs. Kong continued to roar Thursday at the domestic box office, earning $6.7 million from 2,409 reopened theaters for a two-day total of $16.3 million as the pic stomps into Easter weekend.

More films with Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench is something that the world needs. They starred together in Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul in 2017 and now they reunite in the Andy Goddard-directed Six Minutes To Midnight which will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on demand starting today.

Alissa Simon Film CriticInspired by the real history of Bexhill-on-Sea’s Victoria-Augusta-College, a 1930s finishing school for the daughters of the Nazi elite, “Six Minutes to Midnight,” helmed by Andy Goddard, wants to be a Hitchcockian thriller, but merely manages a familiar pastiche peopled with stock characters that should divert less-discriminating viewers.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn exorcist movies, there is never much new under the black hole sun. The one development in the genre over the last decade has been to see it merge, on occasion, with the haunted-house film — a comfortable enough mashup, though it’s kind of like pairing two pop stars to create a hit single out of their combined demos.

Mein Vater ist Deutscher.” (It means what you think it means.)We meet Ilse (Carla Juri), an uptight German professor and full-fledged Nazi, and a few Brits who are Hitler sympathizers trying to thwart Miller’s mission. The story is a compelling one.Still, a more effective thriller would juxtapose the worldwide catastrophe the adults all know is about to be unleashed, and carefree young kids who are unknowingly at the center of it.

In the years before World War II, the Augusta-Victoria College, a girls’ boarding school in Bexhill-on-Sea, catered to a very specific audience: The daughters and goddaughters of important Germans and high ranking Nazi officials. It is believed that the intent of the school was to educate the girls in the language and British customs and was part of a strategy to keep England and Germany close.

A curious footnote in pre-World War II British history fails to provide adequate fuel for a gripping espionage thriller in Six Minutes to Midnight, a disappointingly conventional passion project for genderfluid comic Eddie Izzard, inspired by childhood visits to the local museum at Bexhill-on-Sea.

Disney's fantasy-adventure Raya and the Last Dragon stayed atop the chart in its third outing, falling a mere 5 percent to $5.2 million as L.A. theaters roared back to life over the weekend in a needed boost for Hollywood and ravaged theater owners.

It’s no secret that the Brad Furman-directed City of Lies has had a rocky journey to the big screen. It’s played an exhausting game of musical chairs with distributors and a lawsuit involving the film’s location manager and the film’s star Johnny Depp. Through all, it still managed to make a theatrical debut as theaters begin to open the doors after a year of navigating the pandemic.