Month: July 2019

The latest box office report is in, and Disney’s Toy Story 4 was again the best-performing movie of the weekend in the United States and Canada. It made $57.9 million over the Friday-Sunday period, falling 52 percent from its opening-weekend haul of $118 million last weekend.

Toy Story 4 has now made $236.9 million in the US/Canada so far. Globally, Toy Story 4 has now made $496.5 million. All of the box office numbers come from Entertainment Weekly.

In other news, Annabelle Comes Home landed at No. 2 with $20.4 million. It’s the worst-performing Conjuring universe movie to date; and that includes the earlier Annabelle movies that opened in the US and Canada to $37.1 million and $35 million respectively.

Another notable premiere was the re-release of Avengers: Endgame. It made $5.5 million, and combined with more money from overseas, its total box office stands at $2.76 billion. It’s about $27 million behind Avatar ($2.78 billion) for the all-time record, and box office insiders believe Endgame may never beat Avatar, at least not right away.

Danny Boyle’s Yesterday, which is a movie about a world where The Beatles do not exist, made $17 million for its opening weekend. John Wick 3 stayed in the charts, too, landing at No. 10 with $3.2 million.

June 28-30 US/Canada Box Office

All numbers from Entertainment Weekly

1. Toy Story 4 — $57.9 million
2. Annabelle Comes Home — $20.4 million
3. Yesterday — $17 million
4. Aladdin — $9.3 million
5. Secret Life of Pets 2 — $7.1 million
6. Men In Black: International — $6.6 million
7. Avengers: Endgame — $5.5 million
8. Child’s Play — $4.3 million
9. Rocketman — $3.9 million
10. John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum — $3.2 million

New footage of Bond 25 has emerged from London. Released June 30 by the official James Bond Twitter account, a video shows Daniel Craig driving the lovely Aston Martin V8 through London’s Whitehall road. The Aston Martin V8 was first seen in a James Bond movie all the way back in 1987 with The Living Daylights.

Another piece of media released by the producers shows a suave-looking, sunglasses-wearing Craig strolling through London. The producers noted that Craig, director Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and the crew filmed in various London locations on June 30.

This appears to be one of the first instances of Bond 25 filming after Craig injured his ankle so badly he needed surgery and later, time off, to recover. These new images and video follow the first footage released that shows Bond in Jamaica.

Oscar winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) was initially tapped to direct Bond 25, but he dropped out due to “creative differences.”Cary Fukunaga replaced Boyle before the film was delayed first from October 2019 to February 2020 and then again to April 3, 2020.

In addition to Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, and Lea Seydoux will all reprise their roles for the 25th James Bond movie. Jeffrey Wright and Ben Whishaw also return, while Rami Malek has joined the movie as the villain.

Bond 25’s story begins with Bond out of active service and enjoying himself in Jamaica. Of course this tranquility does not last.

“His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help,” reads a line from the description. “The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.”

In June, a controlled explosion on-set went wrong, and one person was injured.

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This is a mostly spoiler-free review of Starz’s The Rook Season 1, episode 1, which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. PT/ET.

Starz is no stranger to blending sci-fi and spycraft, as evidenced by the premium cable network’s critically-acclaimed (and cancelled-too-soon) Counterpart, which deftly blended high-concept thrills with a moody mystery. The premium cabler’s new Series The Rook feels thematically similar, if a little more lively – beginning with the Memento-esque premise of a woman who wakes up at London’s Millennium Bridge with no memory of who she is or how she got there, surrounded by dead bodies wearing latex gloves.

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Wargaming.net has announced that they’re adding a host of new content and features to World of Warships: Legends.

The free-to-play naval-combat-themed MMO will introduce a new campaign and a new nation fleet, plus “numerous fan-requested game enhancements,” according to a press release from the Warships team. The team is also planning a 4th of July content pack to coincide with the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

The German Fleet

Germany joins the roster of controllable fleets, with seven new commanders to choose from, including Franz von Hipper, Reinhard Scheer, and Graf Maximilian von Spee.

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