Romance It Ends With Us opens in 630 Sony theaters at the United Kingdom and Ireland box office this weekend, pitting lead actress Blake Lively against her spouse Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool
It Ends With Us is Christy Hall’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, about a woman whose dates with a neurosurgeon begin to remind her of her parents’ problematic dates.
Director Justin Baldoni stars in Lively after acquiring the eBook from Wayfarer Studios in 2019, with Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Kevin McKidd also in the cast.
After debuting in the TV series Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012, Lively has found good fortune in big-screen romance stories, adding the fantasy The Age of Adaline (£1. 4 million in total), the comedy Cafe Society (£1. 5 million) and the mystery A Simple Favor (£5. 2 million).
His other lead credits include the shark attack mystery The Shallows (£2. 2 million) and the action mystery The Rhythm Section (£356,624).
This is American actor and filmmaker Baldoni’s third feature film as a director, following 2019’s Five Feet Apart (£950,743) and Clouds, released at Disney in 2020.
Warner Bros. releases M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap in 535 theaters, in which a father and his teenage daughter attend a pop concert, only to realize that they have entered a dark and sinister event.
Josh Hartnett and Ariel Donoghue direct the cast, along with Shyamalan’s daughter Saleka Shyamalan, Alison Pill and Hayley Mills.
It is the feature film by American filmmaker Shyamalan, whose highest-grossing title is still the 1999 horror film The Sixth Sense, with a whopping £25. 8 million.
After its sequels of Unbreakable Split (£11. 4 million) in 2017 and Glass (£11 million) in 2019 brought it back into eight-figure territory at the box office, its two post-pandemic releases have not reached the same heights: 2021. Old (£3. 4 million) and Knock At The Cabin 2023 (£3. 2 million).
Trap opened with $20 million internationally last weekend, normally starting at $15. 5 million in North America.
Eli Roth’s action-adventure comedy Borderlands debuts in 544 Lionsgate theaters. Based on the Gearbox Software video game series of the same name, it follows an outlaw who returns to the place where he grew up to locate the missing daughter of Maximum Duro. boy in the universe.
Cate Blanchett leads the cast, along with Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt and Jamie Lee Curtis. Filmed between 2021 and 2022, the film went through two weeks of filming in 2023, directed by Tim Miller.
Although he is known for his gore titles, such as his debut Cabin Fever (£2. 9m), Hostel (£4. 2m) and Hostel 2 (£1. 8m), Roth’s highest-grossing film is the 2018 fantasy comedy The House with a Clock. Within His Walls, with Blanchett and Black, which grossed £8. 3 million.
Universal is releasing Pamela Adlon’s comedy Babes in 107 theaters. It is written, produced and stars American actress Ilana Glazer, who co-created the hit comedy series Central Broad City.
Babes follows two lifelong friends who triumph over demanding friendship situations when one of them pursues a pregnancy on her own after a one-night stand.
Vue Entertainment, the theatrical distribution arm of Vue Cinemas, will present Bluey At The Cinema: Family Trip Collection, a series of episodes of Australian children’s animation Bluey, in its 93 theaters.
Indie titles continue to fight for space amid a tight list of summer blockbusters. Christopher Zalla’s Radical opens in 32 locations, starring CODA actor Eugenio Derbez as an instructor in an overlooked Mexican border town who attempts a new approach to unlocking his students’ potential.
The film debuted at Sundance 2023, winning the Festival Favourite award; and played in Sydney, Melbourne, Zurich and Glasgow, among other festivals.
BFI Distribution opens Sky Peals, the debut of 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, in 28 locations. Produced by fellow movie star Michelle Stein, the film follows a man working the night shift at a fast food restaurant at a highway gas station, who searches for answers when he learns that his father, the who is separated, has died. Array debuted at Venice Critics’ Week last year, before screening at the BFI London Film Festival.
A24 premieres Daina O’s fantasy drama on Tuesday. Pusic starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 10 locations; while Apple offers Doug Liman’s crime comedy The Instigators, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, and Kaleidoscope offers the family animation Gracie
Re-releases continue to fill in the gaps in the schedule, with Sony releasing Spider-Man 2 in 557 theaters after Spider-Man earned £253,261 last weekend; and Vertigo premieres Caligula: The Ultimate Cut by Tinto Brass in 14 theaters. Vertigo also opens Neil Marshall’s detective name Duchess in nine theaters, co-written with Charlotte Kirk.
Signature Entertainment will release the animated film Ozi: Voice Of The Forest, produced by Leonardo Di Caprio, in 259 theaters on Saturday and Sunday, ahead of the next full weekend.
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