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Next month, Hanks will once again team with Ron Howard for his third movie as Robert Langdon in the adaptation of Dan Brown’s Inferno, which hopes to do as well as 2009’s Angels and Demons. A key thing to note is that when Hanks plays real people, as he did in Captain Phillips, his fans are generally more interested, so Sully will be a really good test of his drawing power. There’s also films like Cloud Atlas and Extremely Loud & Incredible Close, neither which connected with audiences.
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Tom Hanks’s career has been even more erratic, as he has gone between bigger hits like Bridge of Spies (with Steven Spielberg) and Captain Phillips (with Paul Greengrass) with lackluster films like his most recent one, Hologram for a King, which barely got a wide release. Edgar, Hereafter and Invictus—weren’t received nearly as well, but it’s helped legitimize all the success the 86 year old (!) filmmaker has had in his sixty year career. Granted, that movie was an anomaly for a director whose previous movies— Jersey Boys, J. It would go on to gross $350 million, making it one of the biggest blockbusters of the year and getting star Bradley Cooper his third and fourth Oscar nominations. That’s twice as much as each of Eastwood’s previous four movies have made in total. Surprisingly, this will be Eastwood’s first film since 2014’s American Sniper, a movie (also based on a real story) that seemingly came out of nowhere with a limited release at the end of the year and the generated enough interest to make $89 million its opening weekend in wide release. It’s hard to determine whether American audiences would care very much about this story if it wasn’t for the prestigious director and actor involved, but this will be a really good test to see if a movie like this can do well in early September, just as film festival season is starting. (We’ll have a couple this month.) This movie is based on the book co-written by Sullenberg himself, and it hopes to remind people of the incredible heroism of the airline pilots who hold so many lives in their hands on a daily basis. It’s hard to believe that in his 45 years as a director, Clint Eastwood has never directed Tom Hanks in a movie, but for the first time, the two Hollywood legends have come together for another movie ripped from the headlines. Plot: On January 15, 2009, a plane carrying 155 people on board had to make an emergency landing in the middle of the Hudson River, a last minute call by Captain “Sully†Sullenberg (Tom Hanks) that was called the “Miracle on the Hudson.†At first, the airline pilot was declared a hero but then the investigation that followed nearly “sullied†(ha ha) his career.
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Also, this weekend, STX Entertainment’s comedy Bad Moms hit the $100 million mark, making it the first movie from the fledgling distributor to do so.Ĭast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney CBS Films’ modern-day Western Hell or High Water continued to expand nationwide, as it broke into the Top 10 at #9 with $5.6 million over the four-day holiday. The Mexican comedy No Manches Frida (Lionsgate/Pantelion) ended up faring better in just 362 theaters, grossing $4.6 million in its first four days. The Light Between Oceans ended up with slightly over $6 million, roughly the same as my original prediction but 20th Century Fox’s thriller Morgan, starring Kate Mara, bomb-bomb-bombed with a ridiculously bad four-day opening of just $2.5 million in its first four days. Also as expected, Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe (Screen Gems) won the weekend with a four-day total of $19.7 million, a little less than I predicted. This Past Weekend:Īs expected, Labor Day weekend wasn’t good for the two new wide releases at all, although the romantic drama The Light Between Oceans (DreamWorks), starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, ended up doing far better of the two. 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.