Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More M. Night Shyamalan’s latest horror-thriller, Split, easily topped the chart after trumping the competition with a far-better-than-expected $40.2 million from 3,015 theaters in another victory for Blumhouse Productions and Universal’s partnership. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, January 22, are as follows: # Title Distributor Name Weekend …
Read More »‘Hidden Figures’ Takes Box Office As New Releases Bomb
Three high-profile studio movies bombed this weekend, including Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Ben Affleck’s Live by Night, making it easier for Hidden Figures to take the top spot a week after squeaking out a last minute victory over Rogue One last week. Hidden Figures — the biographical drama about three black female NASA mathematicians who …
Read More »Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner Star in Arrival
ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD January 31. Five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams “delivers one of her best performances” (Brian Truitt, USA Today) as expert …
Read More »“Ghost In The Shell” Returns To Theaters For Limited Engagement
2029 – A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together, with her fellow agents from Section 9, they embark on a high-tech race against …
Read More »‘Constantine’ Resurrected as Animated Series by CW Seed
Constantine is coming back. The DC Comics drama, which was most recently adapted for TV by NBC, will return as an animated series on CW Seed, it was announced Sunday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The animated series will consist of five or six 10-minute episodes that will …
Read More »‘Rogue One’ Squeaks Out Another Box Office Win
Rogue One, the stand-alone Star Wars movie starring Felicity Jones, squeaked out another box office win, narrowly beating out Hidden Figures. The film has now earned a massive $477.3 million domestically and is virtually guaranteed of crossing the $500 million mark. The pic easily won the foreign weekend race with $56.6 million, …
Read More »Cult of Chucky Start of Production Announced
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently …
Read More »“Moana” Holds On To Box Office Top Spot
Disney’s Moana easily topped the domestic box office for its second week in a row, with a catch of $28.4 million. On a traditionally sleepy weekend between major holidays, the Disney animated film did strong business, dropping just 50 percent from its opening weekend. That’s even better than Disney’s record-breaking animated hit, Frozen, which dropped …
Read More »“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” Generates a Magical Half Billion Dollars at the Worldwide Box Office
On the heels of topping the box office in its opening weekend, the widely acclaimed magical adventure “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” surpassed half a billion dollars at the global box office on Tuesday, November 29, following its second weekend in release. The announcement was made today by …
Read More »Idris Elba And Richard Madden Star In The Action-Packed Thriller: The Take
A rogue CIA agent helps a small-time criminal in the intense-action film, The Take, available now on Digital HD and on Blu-ray and DVD on February 7, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. This powerful story stars Idris Elba (Star Trek Beyond, Beasts of No Nation) and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones).The Take Blu-ray™ and DVD include exciting bonus content …
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