‘Mortal Kombat’ & ‘Demon Slayer’ Continue Gritty B.O. Fight For No. 1; But Both Pics Hit The Mat Hard In Weekend 2 Deadline 3 hrs ago
Demon Slayer, which had very notable openings and further revived the domestic B.O. last weekend, dropped precipitously this weekend, respectively at
-73% and
$6.4M for No. 1, with a running total of
$32.2M, and New Line’s
Mortal Kombat is at No. 2 with a weekend 2 of
$6.2M and a $34M 10-day total. No one was expecting this type of tumble. What does this say as the US has close to 70% of 40,7K screens reopened, and there’s talk of Los Angeles and San Francisco moving to the yellow tier, which could get theaters at 75% capacity? (It’s not as easy as that reads, more on that in a bit).
Better when it s not trying to scare you.
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Rupert Friend, Brian Cox, Madeline Brewer and Mamie Gummer star in William Brent Bell s horror film about a little girl whose demonic puppets seem to come to life.
A muddled execution undercuts laudable ambitions in the latest effort from director William Brent Bell, who previously demonstrated his talent for turning low-budget horror films into major commercial hits with such movies as
The Devil Inside and
Separation, which attempts to inject scares into a
Kramer vs. Kramer-inspired scenario. But the film squanders its intriguing setup and terrific performances by devolving into familiar genre tropes. Not that it will prevent horror-starved audiences from flocking to see it on the big screen thanks to the further lifting of pandemic restrictions.
Sci-fi of the thoughtful, (sometimes too) slow-paced variety.
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Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette and Daniel Dae Kim star in Joe Penna s Netflix thriller about the crew of a space mission facing a perilous situation.
It s a wonder that anyone is still interested in becoming an astronaut after the procession of cinematic calamities that have befallen space travelers over the years. Netflix seems to be pursuing a specialty in the genre, with
Stowaway arriving shortly on the heels of the apocalyptic George Clooney starrer
The Midnight Sky. Joe Penna s sophomore feature clearly owes a debt to 1969 s
Marooned in its depiction of a small space crew dealing with a life-threatening crisis.
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A 67,500-square-foot building at Victory Media Campus, which Comcast recently leased. (Inset: A rendering of the future Comcast offices in Burbank.)
While vacancies rise and rents decline dramatically across Los Angeles amid the downturn, especially on the Westside, Burbank is a bright spot, thanks partly to a major Netflix lease.
When asked how the recession and pandemic have affected L.A. s commercial real estate market, Ryan Patap, director of analytics at data group CoStar, is blunt: It s bad. Over the past two quarters, we ve seen vacancy rise at its fastest pace in more than a decade.