‘The War With Grandpa’ review: Another forgettable Robert De Niro comedy

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Taylor Kitsch has been set as the new male lead in Wash Me in the River, after Colson “Machine Gun Kelly” Baker dropped out due to scheduling.Kitsch joins Robert De Niro and John Malkovich a drama that will be directed next month by Randall Emmett. Emmett restarted production and wrapped on Midnight in the Switchgrass, the vet producer’s directing debut.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLiam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” limped to first place at the domestic box office, debuting at $3.7 million. Those ticket sales, among the lowest ever to land at No.

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In pre-pandemic times, a PG-rated family comedy starring Robert De Niro would be deemed a bomb if opening to $3.6 million at the domestic box office. Yet when The War With Grandpa earned just that over the Oct.

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Every few years, Robert De Niro likes to mix it up. He’ll throw in “Last Vegas” or “The Intern” to remind us all he’s more than Travis Bickle or Jake LaMotta.

After five weekends atop a pandemic-drained box office, “Tenet” has ceded the No. 1 spot to 101 Studios’ “The War With Grandpa,” an indie family film starring Robert De Niro that is serving as a trial balloon of sorts for the genre.Released on 2,250 screens, “The War With Grandpa” took in a $3.6 million opening weekend for a per theater average of $1,604.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The War With Grandpa,” a Robert De Niro comedy about the battle between a wily septuagenarian and his grandson over a bedroom, was originally supposed to hit theaters in 2018.Plans changed after Harvey Weinstein, the indie film producer whose company The Weinstein Company financed the “Home Alone” knockoff, was exposed as a serial sexual harasser and predator.

Jane Seymour has nothing but nice things to say about her experience with fellow veteran actors Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken on The War With Grandpa.“I was very pleasantly overwhelmed,” the actress, 69, reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Mr.

Also Read: 'The War With Grandpa' Film Review: Robert De Niro Mildly Kills Time, So Audiences Can Do Likewise“I don’t like these people,” says one character after spending a bit too long in Frances’ parlor. “They’re not normal people!”He’s right, of course — they’re not normal people.

The last time Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken appeared together onscreen, they were playing a tragic game of Russian roulette in the classic 1978 film The Deer Hunter. Reunited for the first time in 42 years in the family comedy The War with Grandpa, they play dodgeball…on trampolines.

Also Read: Robert De Niro's 'The War With Grandpa' Gets Fall Release From 101 StudiosAnnoyed at being moved up to the attic, which is plagued with bats, mice, and leaks, Peter declares war on Ed.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“The War with Grandpa” opens with a feisty encounter between Robert De Niro and a supermarket scanner. The supermarket has eliminated all its cashiers, and De Niro’s Ed, a senior citizen who wants to check out his cart full of groceries, can’t get the beeping, Siri-voiced scanner to cooperate, which leaves him testy in all the familiar yet agreeably scowling and disgruntled De Niro ways.

Robert De Niro did not mince words in a recent interview in which he was asked about how he's holding up amid the coronavirus pandemic. The "Irishman" star was quick to call his current situation "fortunate" but pointed out the state of the nation as a whole was more than grim due to the Trump administration.

People, aims to raise funds for diabetes research and clinical care, for the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes and Children’s Diabetes FoundationDue to the pandemic, the event will now be streamed online and available for public viewing, for the first time in the event's history.In addition to the usual tribute, the event is also set to celebrate Davis' 90th birthday and the foundation's 40th anniversary.  The biennial ball, which honored Robert De Niro with the Brass Ring Award in 2018, will