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It was a monstrous weekend thanks to Warner Bros.'s The Meg, which devoured everything in its path en route to a nearly $150 million global debut. As a result, the weekend box office was up 5.7% compared to last weekend and over 25% compared to last year, with the top twelve grossing over $132 million. It was also a strong weekend for Focus Features's release of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman and Screen Gems's Slender Man even over-performed against expectations, though a disappointing CinemaS...
- SlashFilm: ‘The Meg’, ‘Rampage’ and the Problem With 2018’s Giant Monster Movies
- Cinema Blend: 5 Reasons Why The Meg Overperformed
- Vulture: Let’s Fact-check The Meg
- HitFix: Weekend Box Office: ‘The Meg’ May Be The Surprise Hit Of The Summer
- MovieWeb: The Meg Sinks Its Teeth Into $44.5M at the Box Office
- SlashFilm: ‘The Meg’ Overperforms at the Box Office, Opens Larger Than ‘Ready Player One’ and ‘Rampage’
- Screen Crush: Weekend Box Office: 'The Meg' Chomps Its Way To Number One
- SlashFilm: The Morning Watch: The Hair Animation of ‘Incredibles 2’, ‘The Meg’ Anatomy of a Shark Battle & More
Jason Statham’s shark movie is a surprising box office hit, while Spike Lee has his best opening weekend in nearly a decade.
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- IndieWire: ‘The Meg’ Grabs Number One at Box Office as ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Scores Wide
- HitFix: Weekend Box Office: ‘The Meg’ May Be The Surprise Hit Of The Summer
- Coming Soon: The Meg Munches on Moviegoers with $141 Million at Global Box Office
- Cinema Blend: The Meg Box Office: The Giant Shark Movie Blows Expectations Out Of The Water
- Deadline: ‘The Meg’ Devours $97M Overseas/$141M WW; Takeaways From A Wide-Appeal China-U.S. Co-Pro – International Box Office
- IGN Movies: The Meg Devours Its Box Office Competition
- Variety: China Box Office: ‘The Meg’ Makes $50 Million in Third Place Opening
- Horror-Movies.ca: Slender Man is No Match for a Giant Shark at this Weekend’s Box Office
- MovieWeb: The Meg Sinks Its Teeth Into $44.5M at the Box Office
- SlashFilm: ‘The Meg’ Overperforms at the Box Office, Opens Larger Than ‘Ready Player One’ and ‘Rampage’
- JoBlo: Weekend Box Office Report: August 10-12, 2018
- Deadline: ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ from Oscilloscope & ’Magnolia’s Skate Kitchen’ Bow Strong in Exclusive Runs: Specialty Box Office
- IndieWire: ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ and ‘Skate Kitchen’ Draw Women to Specialty Box Office
- Horror Society: The Meg Takes A Bite Out of Theaters This Weekend with $44 Million in Ticket Sales.
- Deadline: How Warner Bros. Tore Up B.O. Projections & Audaciously Sold ‘Meg’ As A Horror Comedy For A $44.5M Weekend Win
- Variety: Korea Box Office: ‘Along with the Gods’ Sequel Beats Trio of Prominent Newcomers
- Dread Central: How Much $$ Did THE MEG Make This Weekend?
- Dark Horizons: “Meg” Takes $44M Chomp Out Of Box-Office
- IndieWire: IndieWire’s Shark Expert Takes a Bite out of ‘The Meg’: We’re Gonna Need a Better Movie
- Variety: ‘The Meg’ Feasts on $97 Million Overseas, With $50.3 Million in China
- USA Today: Jason Statham's shark thriller 'The Meg' takes a big box-office bite: $44.5M
- Cinema Blend: The Meg Director Explains Why Filming Those Beach Scenes Was Super Difficult
- MovieWeb: The Meg Review #2: Bigger Isn't Always Better
- Film School Rejects: We Talk to ‘The Meg’ Director Jon Turteltaub About Making His Big Shark Movie
- Film School Rejects: Watch ‘The Meg,’ Then Watch These Movies
- FirstShowing.net: Review: Turteltaub's 'The Meg' Movie is Fun, Dumb, and Full of Chum
- Comic Book Movie: THE MEG Bites Off Monstrous $44.5M Debut; MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Continues To Hold Strong With $20MTHE MEG Bites Off Monstrous $44.5M Debut; MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Continues To Hold Strong With $20M
- SlashFilm: ‘The Meg’, ‘Rampage’ and the Problem With 2018’s Giant Monster Movies
I have to admit, there's a part of me that thought this day would never come. After what feels like forever since the idea of adapting writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's classic Vertigo comic book series, Y: THE LAST MAN, was floated by the powers that be, a full cast list for FX's presentation of the iconic story has been revealed. It is my distinct pleasure to share with you...
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- SlashFilm: ‘Y: The Last Man’ FX Series to Star Barry Keoghan, Diane Lane, and More
- Comic Book Movie: Y: THE LAST MAN Adds Barry Keoghan As Yorick; Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, And Lashana Lynch Will Also StarY: THE LAST MAN Adds Barry Keoghan As Yorick; Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, And Lashana Lynch Will Also Star
- Comic Book Movie: Y: THE LAST MAN Adds Barry Keoghan As Yorick; Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, And Lashana Lynch Will Also StarY: THE LAST MAN Adds Barry Keoghan As Yorick; Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, And Lashana Lynch Will Also Star
- Film School Rejects: ‘Y: The Last Man’ Finds its Yorick in ‘Dunkirk’ Breakout Barry Keoghan
Reports of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote‘s death were greatly exaggerated. Although a French court ruled in former producer Paul Branco‘s favor over the long and drawn-out legal battle between him and director Terry Gilliam, apparently reports that Gilliam had lost the rights to his film were not true.
Gilliam retains The Man Who Killed Don Quixote rights, according to Gilliam’s current producer Mariela Busuievsky. As to those reports that Branco had won them in the court case?
- IndieWire: Terry Gilliam Hasn’t Lost the Rights to ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ Claims His Producer
- SlashFilm: Daily Podcast: The Conners, Dear White People, Sinemia, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Terror, Disneyland, and More
- Badass Digest: You Really Need to Know About THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT
- Dark Horizons: “Bond 25” & “Y: The Last Man” Casting Rumors
- We Got This Covered: Man Of Steel 2 Announcement Said To Be Imminent
- Comic Book Movie: Jodie Foster Is Reportedly In Talks To Lead FX's Adaptation Of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: THE LAST MANJodie Foster Is Reportedly In Talks To Lead FX's Adaptation Of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: THE LAST MAN
- MovieWeb: Man of Steel 2 to Be Announced at San Diego Comic-Con?
- Comic Book Movie: MAN OF STEEL 2 Announcement Could Be Coming Soon; Will We See Henry Cavill Fly Into Comic-Con?MAN OF STEEL 2 Announcement Could Be Coming Soon; Will We See Henry Cavill Fly Into Comic-Con?
Warner Bros. may still make Rush Hour 4 but Brett Ratner definitely won't be directing it.
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“It Doesn’t Matter” recording artist Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has never been ashamed of his pro wrestling roots. (Well, there might be the occasional thing he might want to forget in 2018.) Even if he wasn’t free to light his own name on fire at this year’s WrestleMania, this spring still featured a signature maneuver from The Rock in front of a massive audience. Heck, you might have missed it as it was happening.
Dwayne Johnson is serious about making sure audiences have a good time in his movies. He’s so serious about it, in fact, that he came very close to walking away from Rampage, his new film based on the classic video game that’s currently in theaters. Read about the Rampage original ending and why Johnson was so adamant about changing it below.
Rampage Original Ending
Spoilers ahead.
As it exists now, Rampage stars Johnson as a military man-turned-primatologist named Davis Okoye who rescues an albino gorilla named George from poachers and takes him to live at the San Diego zoo.
- Moviefone: Dwayne Johnson Threatened to Quit 'Rampage' Over Original 'Sad Ending'
- JoBlo: The original ending to Rampage left Dwayne Johnson threatening to quit
- HitFix: The Rock Almost Walked Away From ‘Rampage’ After Reading The Original Script And Its Sad Ending
- Deadline: ‘Rampage’ & ‘A Quiet Place’ Still At War For No. 1; Amy Schumer Debuts Third Comedy ‘I Feel Pretty’
Thanks to the success of Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg is now the richest director in the world and the first to earn $10 billion at the global box office.
Even though Ready Player One only held on to the top spot for one weekend (it lost to A Quiet Place), it has already become one of the highest grossing movies of 2018 worldwide. The adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel has earned over $475 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest movies for Spielberg in over a decade.
- Moviefone: Steven Spielberg Becomes First Director to Make $10 Billion at Box Office
- The Wrap: Steven Spielberg Becomes First Director to Top $10 Billion at Worldwide Box Office
- Cinema Blend: Steven Spielberg Just Became The First Director To Ever Pass A Historic Box Office Milestone
- MovieWeb: Steven Spielberg Is First Director to Cross $10B at the Box Office
- HitFix: Steven Spielberg Is The First Director Whose Movies Have Earned $10 Billion (Yes, Billion)
- Screen Crush: Weekend Box Office: 'Rampage' Tramples 'A Quiet Place'
- Comic Book Movie: Dwayne Johnson Is Once Again #1 At The Worldwide Box Office As RAMPAGE Roars To $148.6M Opening WeekendDwayne Johnson Is Once Again #1 At The Worldwide Box Office As RAMPAGE Roars To $148.6M Opening Weekend
Rampage stomps into first place!
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his sizeable simian friend climbed to the top of the box office this weekend with RAMPAGE, which opened with an estimated $34.5 million!
The adaptation of the 80s arcade building-breaking videogame opened just a bit beneath the $36.1 million start of Johnson's recent JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, which slowly...
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- IGN Movies: Rampage Tops Weekend Box Office
- Variety: Korea Box Office: ‘Rampage’ Rules Weekend
- Comic Book Movie: Dwayne Johnson Is Once Again #1 At The Worldwide Box Office As RAMPAGE Roars To $148.6M Opening WeekendDwayne Johnson Is Once Again #1 At The Worldwide Box Office As RAMPAGE Roars To $148.6M Opening Weekend
- Variety: China Box Office: ‘Rampage’ Leads Hollywood Charge With $55 Million
- The Wrap: ‘Borg vs McEnroe’ Flounders at Indie Box Office While ‘The Rider’ Shines
Rampage is currently the highest-rated video game movie on Rotten Tomatoes. Star Dwayne Johnson is no stranger to the ever-present video game movie curse on the big screen, starring in the 2004 adaptation of seminal first-person shooter Doom. The movie completely bombed at the box office and failed to impress most critics, relying on gimmicky FPS-style set pieces to keep fans of the iconic video game franchise engaged.
Johnson took another crack at a video game adaptation with Rampage, which is only loosely based on the classic Rampage arcade game.
- MovieWeb: Just Saw Rampage and Now You Want to Play the Game for Free?
- Comic Book Movie: RAMPAGE Could Be On Its Way To Becoming The Best-Reviewed Live-Action Video Game Adaptation Of All TimeRAMPAGE Could Be On Its Way To Becoming The Best-Reviewed Live-Action Video Game Adaptation Of All Time
- Dark Horizons: Review: “Rampage”
- We Got This Covered: Cinemaholics #60: Rampage Review
- Cinema Blend: The Rampage Co-Star Who Totally Steals The Movie Away From The Rock
- Cinema Blend: The Justice League Reference That Shows Up In Rampage
- Vulture: Who Gets Out of Rampage With Their Dignity Intact?
- Film School Rejects: If You Like ‘Rampage,’ You Should Watch These 8 Movies
