Skip to main content

‘Apes’ swings to top of US box office5

"War for the Planet of the Apes" won this weekend's battle of the box office in North America, riding on strong reviews and ever more natural-looking apes to take $56.3 million. The Fox/Chemin Entertainment production managed to outdraw "Spider-Man: Homecoming," which fell by more than half from its opening three-day weekend to pull in $44.2 million, website Exhibitor Relations reported. "War," directed by Matt Reeves, tells the continuing story of how intelligent primate Caesar (Andy Serkis) and other apes battle the forces led by an evil human dictator (Woody Harrelson). The film, made for $150 million, has a 95 percent approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website, which collates reviews. Sony-Marvel collaboration "Spider-Man," which draws a similarly strong 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, stars Tom Holland as a young Peter Parker, ably mentored by Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man as he takes on bad guy Vulture (Michael Keaton). Far behind on $19.4 million was Universal's animated sequel "Despicable Me 3," starring Steve Carell as the voice of bad guy-turned-protagonist Gru -- and his twin brother Dru, and Kristen Wiig as Gru's wife Lucy. The film has done much better overseas than at home, according to Hollywood Reporter, which says its global gross of $519.4 million includes a whopping $113.6 million from viewers in China. Placing fourth was Sony's heist thriller "Baby Driver," with Ansel Elgort ("The Fault in our Stars") front and center as a gifted getaway driver with a hearing problem. It netted $8.7 million. And in a surprising fifth place among the big-studio blockbusters was independent rom-com "The Big Sick" from Lionsgate, taking in $7.5 million in its first week in wide release. "Sick" stars Kumail Nanjiani in the semi-autobiographical role of a Pakistani-American stand-up comic who resists his parents' insistent efforts to find a wife for him, and instead falls in love with comedy-club customer Emily, played by Zoe Kazan. The film, co-written by Nanjiani and the real-life Emily, his wife, rates a resounding 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is credited by the New York Times with no less than "revitalizing an often moribund subgenre with a true story of love, death and... everyday comedy." Rounding out the top 10 were: "Wonder Woman" ($6.8 million) "Wish Upon" ($5.5 million) "Cars 3" ($3.1 million) "Transformers: The Last Knight" ($2.8 million) "The House" ($1.7 million)

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Christ the Rock Foundation Annual December Retreat

Come and receive d abundant blessing of God. Date: 23rd - 27th December. Venue: Mercyland, Afao rd, Ado-Ekiti.

President Goodluck Unveils the New N100 Notes

The new N100 commemorative notes was formally unveiled by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Owing to the fact that the ceremony was initially scheduled for last week Wednesday but was postponed due to the president's visit to Burkina Faso. The President was joined by the Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Central bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele during the Federal Executive Council meeting.

Microsoft Rolls Out Cortana Collection To Help You Save Your Favorite Item

Cortana is an intelligent personal assistance created by Microsoft for Window 10, Window 10 Mobile, Window Phone 8.1, Microsoft Band, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Window Mixed Reality and soon Amazon Alexa. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana)  Microsoft's Cortana assistant can now remember what you've searched for on your device like books, TV shows, movies, recipes, and places you plan to visit (restaurants and movie theater). As stated on the official web page of Contana: "Because life isn’t limited to one device, neither is she. Set a reminder on your PC and have it pop up on your phone, or home speaker and vice versa." So AI is really taking over It will pops up whenever a user is on a webpage that might have content worth saving, like on a page to buy a book. Cortana can set reminders, recognize natural voice without the requirement for keyboard input, and answer questions using information from the Bing search engine. It is currently availab...