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The Warner Bros. title is tracking to open as high as $80 million at the North American box office when it bows in theaters Sept. 6, according to sources with access to data from leading research firm NRG.
Oriol Pauloâs unique and unpredictable thriller streak continues with the mental asylum-set mystery âGodâs Crooked Lines.â At the outset, the film can be described as âShock Corridorâ meets âShutter Island.â It is based on a 1979 novel by Torcuate Luca de Tena.
It focuses on a former actress-turned-politician (Neethu Shetty), an LIC agent (Prathap Kumar), and an anonymous individual (Manju Raj), all in pursuit of a bag of cash in the wake of demonetization in India, a prominent socio-cultural and political event that shook the masses to the core.
That year, the Golden Lion went to eventual Best Picture winner âNomadland,â a fitting choice that more or less encapsulated the restrained, disillusioned attitude that began to take hold once we learned that this pandemic would go on longer than âjust two more weeks.â What shouldnât be forgotten, however, is that Chloe Zhaoâs film captured the moment without itself feeling like a hopeless slog, but rather for the sense of underlying drive for life in the face of changing fortunes.
Uslan has been credited on every Batman-related movie â including Batman-adjacent films like Joker and Justice League â since Tim Burtonâs 1989 original.
Marking ZoĂ« Kravitzâs directorial debut and starring Channing Tatum, Blink Twice opened in fourth place with $7.3 million the low end of expectations after receiving a B- CinemaScore from audiences (conversely, it earned relatively strong reviews.)
He made his film debut in the Oscar-nominated Unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie, and earned credits on Legendaryâs Kong: Skull Island, Netflixâs animated series Arcane, revenge movie Kate and Disneyâs Maleficent 2.
Discussions with producer Ridley Scott (who directed 1979âs original Alien, Covenant and 2012âs Prometheus) led to the realization that the seriesâ first synthetic (though they prefer to be called âartificial personsâ or APs), Holmâs Ash, was its most intriguing and worthy of resurrection.
Before, the supernatural elements of âThe Crowâ were largely relegated to the vengeance-driven resurrection of Draven himself, but now, because everything always has to be bigger and more elaborate (and, in this case, dumber), writers Zack Baylin (having a banner year between this and the Bob Marley biopic weâve all already forgotten) and William Schneider felt the need to toss in some hilariously shoehorned play at satanism to apparently give Eric some form of real challenge to his newfound immortality.
Indeed, the upstart distributor has already begun mounting an awards campaign for the film, which also stars Nicolette Robinson, Ron Perlman, John Magaro, Anatol Yusef, Steve Buscemi (another Boardwalk Empire alum) and â coming out of retirement to make a brief but shattering appearance â Oscar winner Joe Pesci.
The men seem arrogant without being excessively creepy, from Christian Slaterâs executive bigwig to Lucas the string-bean tech wizard (Levon Hawke) to Tom the cuddly geek (Haley Joel Osment) to Cody the chef, played by Simon Rex as an unctuous New Age food guru.
Itâs also a celebration of a stellar career: While it took Usher a few years to find his footing after his initial success, he and producer Jermaine Dupri found a chemistry in the studio during the production of of 1997âs âMy Wayâ lofted him to enduring superstardom that peaked with his blockbuster 2004 album âConfessionsâ and goes all the way up to the present with his newest outing, âComing Home.â