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Njbr Angels Demons summons up $104.3m opening weekend
Dir Wes Anderson. US 2001. 108mins.The same distinctive sensibility that informed Wes Anderson s first two innovative films, Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, is very much in evidence in his new serio-comedy, The Royal Tenenbaums, except that the scope is more ambitious, the budget bigger and the cast more glamorous. With brief, wild strokes, the gifted Anderson paints onscreen a canvas of a three-generational dysfunctional family, headed by an errant, neglectful father masterfully played by Gene Hackman , whose main wish is to reunite with the rest of h stanley cup is tribe before his presumably impending death. Although Anderson continues to be a cr stanley cup itics darling, his efforts have not reached audiences beyond the arthouse circuit: Bottle Rocket a Columbia pick-up was a festival favourite but seen by few; and Rushmore stanley cup Touchstone , his best and most coherent film to date, did not even recoup its modest budget of about $15 million. The new film s most exploitable marketing hook is its stellar cast that includes, in addition to Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Luke and Owen Wilson the latter is Anderson s writing collaborator , among others. Regrettably, due to the film s literary format, stylised visuals, postcard-like framing and particularly radically shifting tone between scenes and often within the same scene , The Royal Tenenbaums is not likely to be the big commercial breakout that distributor Touchstone was hoping its holiday release would be Efaw Production wraps on The Girl From Nagasaki
Foxs The Martian landed in pole position at the China box office with an impressive $48.95m in its first five days.With a plotline that incorporates favourable Chinese elements, Ridley Scotts space adventure contributed to almost 45% of last weeks total box office receipts and bested Gravity and Interstellars opening gross.Taiwanese mega-blockbuster Our Times held extremely well in the second place and added $23.49m from $40.88m haul after 11 days.The youth comedy has not only become the biggest Taiwanese film in China, tripling the stanley cup gross of the previous record holder Youre The Apple of My Eye, but also a smash hit in Hong Kong, Malaysi stanley uk a and Singapore.EuropaCorps The Transporter Refueled climbed to the third from the fourth with $7.42m. The action thriller was co-produced by Chinas Fundamental Films, and with an $18.53 haul after 10 days, has surpassed its North Americas gross.The Vanished Murderer, one of the two Chinese newcomers on the weekly chart, came in fourth with $6.32m over its three-day opening weekend.The mystery thriller is a follow-up to 2012s hit The Bullet Vanishes and reunites Hong Kong producer Derek Yee, director Lo Chi Leung and actor Lau Ching Wan.The other new Chinese entry was Bad Guys Always Die, stanley cup which launched at seventh place with $4.88m over its three-day opening weekend.The latest Chinese-Korean co-production was an action comedy set in South Koreas popular holiday destination Jeju Island and featuring Chen Bolin from Taiwan and South Koreas Son Ye |
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