On tonight’s thrilling episode…
Is Sony turning Ghostbusters into a viable franchise, or did they just get lucky?
NEON leans into online trolling for their religious horror flick Immaculate, whose $5.4 million opening weekend (a record debut for the studio) seems to imply that Sydney Sweeney has some drawing power.
Not to be outdone, IFC Films soars past their own personal best with a $2.8 million debut for the buzzy Late Night with the Devil.
Trailers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Furiosa and Alien: Romulus each offer three distinct forms of shareholder-friendly generational nostalgia.
Strong pre-release tracking for A24’s Civil War implies that a year light on conventional tentpole fare could be a boon for non-franchise *movie-movies*.
All that and more!
In terms of the written word…
Lisa Laman penned “What Makes a Great Dallas Movie?” for The Dallas Observer. She included a slew of true crime docudramas like Bonnie and Clyde or Candy (or, in the case of JFK, hallucinatory nightmares—that’s a compliment) and a few films like Miss Juneteenth, Office Space, and Debbie Does Dallas that don’t center on infamous murders.
Ryan Scott offered up another “Tales from the Box Office” column discussing the five-year anniversary of Jordan Peele’s Us and how it established the Get Out director as a butts-in-seats marquee filmmaker. In a sane world, Lupita Nyong'o would have become the first actor to win Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for the same “role” in the same movie, but alas.
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Jeremy Fuster - https://www.thewrap.com/author/jeremy-fuster/
Lisa Laman - https://lisalaman.wixstudio.io/lisaportfolio
Ryan C. Scott - https://www.slashfilm.com/author/ryanscott/
Ep 8: 'Ghostbusters' Lives, Sydney Sweeney is (Maybe?) A Movie Star And NEON is on a Roll