‘Bad Boys’ Passes $1 Billion, ‘Inside Out 2’ Nabs $13M Thursday, ‘Trap’ Springs Early
Kevin Costner's 'Horizon' is fascinating in the shadow of 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Avatar,' but an 'Officer and a Gentleman' remake is the wrong (but ironic) lesson from 'Top Gun: Maverick's success.
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After a boffo $13 million Thursday, the biggest since Barbie last July, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 will end up among the biggest toon debuts.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys is among the few R-rated franchises to top $1 billion in global box office earnings.
Kevin Costner’s Horizon Chapter 1 is an imperfect but compelling and engrossing dramatic epic, one that feels aware of the long-term legacy of Dances with Wolves.
Reacting to Top Gun: Maverick by remaking An Officer and a Gentlemen is like reacting to Inception by making a sanded-down remake of Total Recall.
M. Night Shyamalan’s delightful-looking Trap moves up a week to August 2.
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