Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
- 10/26/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Those with even some interest in gardening — the passion it inspires in people of all kinds, the dignity of its required labor, the camaraderie these passions and labors may build between members, and its aesthetic properties (plant and plant home alike), to name a handful of components — will be very keen to see Rosie Stapel‘s Portrait of a Garden, a documentary that highlights every one of these aspects through a delicately composed cinematic framework.
And we’re pleased to premiere, courtesy of Grasshopper Film, its poster designed by Martin Jarrie. It’s not enough that Portrait is a fine film marked by the tender friendship between two elder masters of their craft (Daan van der Have and Jan Freriks); more critical here and now is that this one-sheet is a lovely work of art unto itself — transportive in its resemblance to many a childhood picture book and continually revealing in its bevy of details.
And we’re pleased to premiere, courtesy of Grasshopper Film, its poster designed by Martin Jarrie. It’s not enough that Portrait is a fine film marked by the tender friendship between two elder masters of their craft (Daan van der Have and Jan Freriks); more critical here and now is that this one-sheet is a lovely work of art unto itself — transportive in its resemblance to many a childhood picture book and continually revealing in its bevy of details.
- 8/4/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Newly established distribution outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Portrait of a Garden. Directed by Rosie Stapel and produced by Daan van der Have, the documentary follows two long time friends, 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener on a country estate, tracking one year in their lives as they tend to a historically significant garden. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and will open in the Us theatrically this fall. The…...
- 4/12/2016
- Deadline
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