The Moscow Police Department is ruling out yet another suspect in the University of Idaho murders.
10.12.2022 - 00:43 / deadline.com
From its triumphant world premiere (with seven-minute standing ovation) at the Venice Film Festival, A24 opens Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale in theaters this weekend amid a whirl of Oscar buzz around star Brendan Fraser. The former action star carries the psychological drama as Charlie, a reclusive and severely obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Deadline critic Damon Wise said Fraser’s “all-in performance… makes adjectives such as ‘brave’ and ‘fearless’ seem almost meaningless” and that The Whale is “cutting the line to put a never-better Brendan Fraser at the front of the Best Actor race.” See full review.
It opens on six screens total in NYC (Alamo Brooklyn, Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square) and LA (AMC Century City, Burbank, The Grove) and plans to hold there next week, expanding in a limited national footprint on Dec. 21 for the holidays.
The Whale looks set to do at least $50k per screen and possibly well over that in a specialty market that could use a bump. We’ve seen some higher opening numbers but most are still well below pre-pandemic levels. Ditto with overall box office grosses. Both records are A24’s to beat. Everything Everywhere All At Once, which came out in late March at $50k PSA, and went on to gross $70 million in North America ($100+ million worldwide).
Aronofsky (Mother!, Black Swan, The Wrestler) directs from a screenplay by Samuel D. Hunter based on Hunter’s 2012 play of the same name. Also starring are Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton.
Fraser wore state-of-the-art prosthetics for the film — way beyond a traditional fat suit. The actor has called the role of 600 pound Charlie “the biggest challenge” of his career and the character “the
The Moscow Police Department is ruling out yet another suspect in the University of Idaho murders.
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Brendan Fraser will receive the Spotlight Award, Actor at the Palm Springs Film Festival’s awards ceremony, taking place in person at the Palm Springs Convention Center on January 5. The award comes in recognition of the actor’s performance in the critically acclaimed A24 drama The Whale from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
A24’s release of Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale had a strong holdover its second weekend out, grossing $168.5k on the same six screens in NYC and LA where it opened its first frame to the biggest per theater average of the year – beating the distributor’s March release of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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You’ve all heard about the case by now. Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, and Madison Mogen — all students at the University of Idaho — were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus housing in Moscow, Idaho back on November 13.
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Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale from A24 swam to the biggest limited opening of the year in NY and LA this weekend, beating the per screen record set by in late spring by the indie distributor’s Everything, Everywhere All At Once.
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