Patriots Day

Patriots Day,' 'hidden Figures' To Lead Tight Mlk Weekend Box Office

... of the most hilarious scenes in a comedy this year (yes, we're talking about the grocery store one) so we're excited about the prospect of another movie featuring the Mila Kunis-Kathryn Hahn-Kristen Bell trifecta. Nov. 22: "Murder on the Orient Express". An awesome cast including Daisy Ridley, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench and Michael Pena will star in the remake of the 1974 film, based on Agatha Christie's famous novel. December 15: "Star Wars: Episode VIII". Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is set to return in the eighth movie, which will also mark Carrie Fisher's last performance as Princess Leia after her untimely death in December. And it's "Star Wars," so of course we're excited. Dec 25: "The Greatest Showman". For fans of P. T. Barnum or anything circus-related, "The Greatest Showman" will be the biographical drama to ...

Patriots Day,’ ‘hell Or High Water’ Production Designer Strives For Accuracy

... the truck could drive up the embankment, and it needed to have a higher elevation on one side so he could shoot down from it,” notes Duffield. “Ben was great — he got the truck further up the hill than the stunt guys.”. In Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” Duffield stretched the budget to build an exact 1,000-foot replica of Boylston Street, where the terrorist bombing occurred. “We visited all the real locations to match everything exactly. The same granite, the same bricks and concrete — everything down to the gum spots on the street,” Duffield recalls. At a South Weymouth, Mass., air base, construction crews built the two main areas where the Boylston Street explosions occurred — the storefronts, the bleachers, the photo bridge, the barricades, and the finish line right down to the flags. Two store interiors were also completely re-created, one for the Marathon Sports store, the other for the Forum restaurant. Boston-based ...

Live By Night, Patriots Day

... was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend. The Bye Bye Man (Horror, Suspense/Thriller, PG-13, Starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Faye Dunaway, Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount) - People commit unthinkable acts every day. Time and again, we grapple to understand what drives a person to do such terrible things. But what if all of the questions we're asking are wrong? What if the cause of all evil is not a matter of what.but who? When three college friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, they discover that there is only one way to avoid his curse: don't think it, don't say it. But ...

Hidden Figures,’ ‘patriot’s Day’ In Tight Race, ‘monster Trucks,’ ‘live By Night’ Brace To Flop

... threatened. The weekend’s other new release, Paramount’s “Monster Trucks,” is shaping up to be a huge bomb. The studio has already taken an $115 million write-down on the family film and is eyeing a debut of between $8 million and $10 million. That’s a disastrous result for a film with a $125 million price tag. “Monster Trucks” focuses on a high school student (Lucas Till) whose truck gets taken over by a CGI monster. The studio will also expand “ Silence ,” a religious epic that Martin Scorsese has labored for two decades to bring to the screen. The story of Jesuit priests in feudal Japan will expand to 750 locations after making $913,000 in limited release. It cost $40 million to make and will do less than $10 million worth of business, a weak result given its budget. Then there’s Warner Bros.’ “ Live by Night.” The Ben Affleck-directed gangster picture is looking DOA after sputtering in ...

Mark Wahlberg On Why He Wanted To Be In 'patriots Day

... Durham arrive at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 64 th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre L. A. Live on September 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/AP Images). Amy Adams, left, and Mark Wahlberg are seen on stage at the 17 th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill). Mark Wahlberg, at left, and his wife, Rhea arrives at the premiere of "Phineas and Ferb: Across The Second Dimension" at El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, Wednesday, August 3, 2011. The film will be aired on The Disney Channel August 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Katy Winn). Actor Mark Wahlberg, left, director David O. Russell, and actor Christian Bale, right, attend The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures at Cipriani's 42 nd Street on ...

Patriots Day' Latest Film To Depict Recent Events

... Arts Entertainment John Krasinski stars in “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.”. Great biopic films used to be made years or even decades after major events, but now there seems to be a quick turnaround. “Patriots Day” hits theaters today and focuses on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. It follows the explosion, chaos and the race against the clock to find those responsible. The movie is the latest in a string of films based off of major national events in recent years. Year of event: 2009. Film year: 2016. The “Miracle on the Hudson” had all the makings for a Hollywood movie — drama, action and a hero. On Jan. 15, 2009, flight Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger saved all 155 passengers and crew after US Airways Flight 1549 hit a flock of geese. The captain made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, saving all on board. The movie follows the crash and the investigations that followed. However, many involved with the hearings argue that the investigators were not antagonistic like those depicted in the film. “13 hours: The Secret ...

Patriots Day' Stirs Memories Of 2013 Boston Marathon

... and his men, one of Watertown's finest (Cliff Moylan) takes the time to taunt the suspects, in the midst of a pitched gun battle. "Welcome to Wattatown, (expletive)," he says, in the flattest-accented version of an "Expendables" catchphrase you've ever heard.' Click here to read the review. New York Times: 'Movies that depict heinous real-life criminal acts and attempt to grapple with their human toll are provocative undertakings, particularly when they’re made so soon after the actual events. As it happens, “Patriots Day” works so well on a dramatic level that my qualms were silenced almost entirely from the start.' Click here to read the review. MORE RUNNING SHORTS. by Eddie Wooten. Friday's release of "Patriots Day" will rekindle memories as the story of the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon plays out on theater screens across the nation. Some Triad runners had already finished their races and reconnected with families. Still more would be stopped on the course, the race shut down by organizers after two bombs exploded. But a small handful from the Triad got up-close views. Greensboro's Marie Underhill sat in the bleachers ...

Patriot's Day'; 'sleepless

... later, he sets out to find his lost family. (No review). “Monster Trucks” (PG): Determined to escape the town where he grew up, a high school senior builds a vehicle from salvaged parts and encounters an unusual subterranean creature, who quickly becomes an ally. (No review). “Patriot’s Day” (R): In 2013, the Boston Marathon erupted into chaos when a bomb exploded along the course. This is the story of what happened that day and how the FBI, local police, state police and local first responders worked together to track, identify and apprehend the suspected bombers. (No review). “Sleepless” (R): A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld (Jamie Foxx) scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son. (No review). Also in theaters. “Assassin’s Creed” (PG-13): Director Justin Kurzel reunites with his “Macbeth” stars Michael Fassbender and Marion ...

Jimmy O. Yang Gets Serious In ‘patriots Day

... weeks before filming. I had asked for his number and we’d spoken on the phone. At first I was super careful and didn’t want to ask anything too deep or upsetting. So the first phone call was just me getting to know him, and it turned out we have a lot of stuff of common. We both speak Mandarin. We’re both big foodies. We’re both the same age. He’s literally the nicest guy. “The funny thing is, he hadn’t watched ‘Silicon Valley’ yet but he’d seen me on ‘2 Broke Girls,’ which was my very first job. I only have two lines on that show but I guess there aren’t many Asian people on TV so he remembered me. It’s also one of the most popular shows in China. “He made himself so available to answer all my questions. I was bugging the hell out of him. He even came to the set. Nobody will really catch this but in the scene where I’m talking to the ...

Patriot’s Day R

... to recreating actual events. Berg, who’s also an actor, excels at capturing and conveying raw human emotion. Wahlberg excels at earnestness and subtle humor, balancing Berg’s emotionally fueled dramas, leading the two of them to deliver, within the last 12 months, two formidable fictionalized accounts of major tragic events. Last year, we had Deepwater Horizon, which was good.  Here we have Patriot’s Day, about the Boston Marathon bombing. And this film is terrific. Wahlberg is an officer named Tommy Saunders, a high-ranking cop suffering through a temporary demotion. Part of his “punishment” is wearing a uniform and greeting VIPs at the finish line of the marathon. Berg introduces us to several of the surviving victims before their lives were turned upside down. We also meet the Tsarnaev brothers, the terrorists who planted the two bombs on Patriot’s Day 2013 and who would later shoot and kill an MIT police officer. Berg turns a shot of lovers’ intertwined legs into a subtle harbinger of doom, focusing on the minutiae of life to establish a beauty and humanity in the mundane. And yet he also moves at a brisk and, I hate to ...

Patriots Day' Challenges 'hidden Figures' For Top Spot

... Hidden Figures should repeat at No. 1 for the second frame in a row this weekend, as the film’s racially-focused narrative might resonate particularly well with audiences over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Look for Hidden Figures to gross a number between $20-$25 million over the four-day period. 2.  Patriots Day  – $21 million. Berg and Wahlberg’s third major outing together, Patriots Day, has big shoes to fill. Their first collaboration, 2013’s Lone Survivor, scored two Oscar nominations, while Deepwater Horizon, released last summer, launched at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to solid critical reviews. The thread uniting all three films? They’re based on actual events, something commercial audiences have responded well to in the past, as Survivor and Horizon grossed $154 million and $118 million worldwide, respectively. In limited release since Dec. 21, Patriots Day, based on real-life events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, has posted decent numbers at seven theaters thus far. Its total stands at just under $898,697 after 21 days, boding well for a sturdy holiday opening approaching $21 million. 3. Sing – ...