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Angelina Jolie is back and now she’s taking on in a fiery western thriller
Those Who Wish Me Dead: playing a firefighter in the Montana wilderness, in the land of “it’s best not to really think about it.”
Adapted from the 2014 bestseller from Michael Koryta, who also wrote the screenplay with director Taylor Sheridan, the master behind
Sicario,
Hell or High Water and the screenwriter for Without Remorse.
Hannah, played by Jolie, is a specialist firefighter called a smoke-jumper: the kind who jumps from planes directly into forest fires. Still processing the horrific death of children from a previous fire, she is now an angry reckless mess in need of a therapist. However, Hannah’s life changes when she cross paths and tackles a kid named Connor (Finn Little) whose widower dad Owen (Jake Weber) is in danger because of a political corruption case for which he, as a forensic accountant, holds all the incriminating information.
The box office is continuing to try and rebound against the pandemic, and this week saw Jason Statham’s
Wrath of Man lead the way. The Guy Ritchie-directed action flick took the #1 spot this weekend with $8.1 million. That’s a fairly good start for a mid-budget action thriller, and in fact is not far off from what Ritchie’s pre-pandemic film
The Gentlemen opened with ($10.7 million) in January of 2020. It also tops the last action film of this caliber that Statham toplined in 2016’s
The Mechanic: Resurrection which grossed $7.5 million in its first weekend.
Of course, like any film during the pandemic there are a ton of asterisks to be mentioned.
Liam Neeson Vs. Bob Odenkirk In This Weekâs VOD Showdown
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Universal and Open Road
Vudu and Fandango are reporting that Liam Neesonâs
The Marksman was the top VOD title last weekend, in terms of raw revenue, as the Open Road flick debuted on electronic sell-through (ie â priced to buyâ digital availability. The film, starring Neeson as a retired/widowed rancher who is pit against murderous drug cartels while protecting a young boy fleeing Mexico, opened in mid-January with $3.1 million before legging out to $15.567 million domestic and $22.4 million worldwide. That was a whopping 5x weekend-to-final multiplier, and just above the $14.1 million domestic cume (from a $4.1 million domestic debut) of Neesonâs
Angelina Jolie film Those Who Wish Me Dead set for May release
By (0) Those Who Want Me Dead, a neo-Western film starring Angelina Jolie, will open in theaters and premiere on HBO Max in May. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Angelina Jolie (C), pictured with daughter Zahara (L) and son Maddox, attends the Tokyo premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo
Angelina Jolie attends the Los Angeles premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 2 (UPI) Angelina Jolie s new film