Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton’s ‘Freaky’ Rules Over Box Office With $3.7 Million Debut

straight to your inbox every day for freeGary Neville says he will not be drawn in by the hype surrounding Dean Henderson at Manchester United. Twenty-three-year-old Henderson returned to United in the summer following an impressive two-season spell on loan at Sheffield United.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe box office outlook in South Korea, which last year was the world’s fourth largest theatrical market, turned from bad to worse.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-produced “Caught in Time” gave fresh life to the mainland China box office over its opening weekend.The fantasy crime thriller about a cop chasing a gang through different eras earned $30.3 million. Produced by Emperor Motion Picture, the film stars the popular Daniel Wu and Wang Qianyuan, and was directed by Lau Ho-leung.It edged aside patriotic war film “Sacrifice” which had held the top spot for the previous three weekends.

Dave McNary Film ReporterBody-swap horror comedy “Freaky” repeated as the winner of a seriously subdued U.S. box office with $1.2 million at 2,057 locations in North America during the Friday-Sunday weekend.The Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ movie stars Vince Vaughn as a serial killer and Kathryn Newton as a low-profile high schooler who inadvertently switch bodies on Friday the 13th.

Freaky is on top of the box office.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rapper Snoop Dogg is to voice and exec produce an animated comedy for Amazon with Vince Vaughn also exec producing.The streamer is developing Oaklandia, which is written by Daniel Dominguez (right), a writer for season two of HBO Max’s Michael B.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWar film “The Sacrifice” was the most watched title in Chinese theaters for the third consecutive weekend. It earned $9.2 million over the frame and extended its cumulative score to $150 million, since release on Oct.

With its theatrical window deal with AMC Theaters in its back pocket, Universal released the Blumhouse body-swap horror film “Freaky” in theaters this weekend, where it performed consistently with other pandemic releases with a sluggish $3.7 million opening from 2,472 screens.Directed by “Happy Death Day” creator Christopher Landon, the film stars Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and a teenage girl who suddenly switch bodies.

Vince Vaughn wound up seated next to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January, and found himself hit with backlash when video emerged of the “Wedding Crashers” star chatting with the couple and shaking hands with the president.

Vince Vaughn wound up seated next to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January, and found himself hit with backlash when video emerged of the “Wedding Crashers” star chatting with the couple and shaking hands with the president.

Vince Vaughn is defending his choice to shake President Donald Trump‘s hand during the College Football Playoff Game earlier this year.

Vince Vaughn is opening up about the outrage he received from many after he was caught chatting with President Trump in a private suite during the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The self-proclaimed libertarian, 50, was seen talking with the president as First Lady Melania Trump sat between them, and despite shaking hands with Trump, as far as Vaughn is concerned, the incident was far overblown.

Somewhere between a presidential election and an increasingly dire coronavirus pandemic, something unexpected has happened. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have delivered a very funny, scary, and refreshingly progressive new flick, “Freaky.” And one of the reasons the Christopher Landon directed movie is so good is because of a scene-stealing turn from newcomer Misha Osherovich.

[Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen “Freaky.”]In Christopher Landon’s “Freaky,” 6-foot-5-inch-tall actor Vince Vaughn, who plays a serial killer, body swaps with 5-foot-5-inch-tall Kathryn Newton — and as it turns out, Vaughn had some tricks up his sleeve to help Newton embody that physicality.“Vince is so great — it was such a collaborative experience and he gave me so many great ideas and I got so inspired from him,” Newton told TheWrap.

“Little” fell flat despite a cute plot.

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about so-called “elevated horror,” but what isn’t being discussed as much is the new wave of inventive slasher films that pay homage to the ’80s classics while adding new twists to old formulas. Enter “Freaky,” a new slasher comedy film by Christopher Landon that shakes up the formula by infusing it with a body-swap comedy and lots of heart.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA delightful mutant hybrid of two seemingly incongruous teen movie genres, cheeky Blumhouse satire “Freaky” might just as well have been called “Freaky Friday the 13th.” That’s essentially the pitch for a mashup that’s half slasher movie and half body-swap comedy, delivered with the self-aware wink of Wes Craven’s “Scream,” as a serial killer known as “the Blissfield Butcher” (Vince Vaughn) unwittingly trades places with his latest victim, dorky high school misfit

Vince Vaughn reveals one of his favourite quarantine pastimes on Thursday’s “Ellen DeGeneres Show”.