God bless the Criterion Collection for their forthcoming Blu-ray of a nifty 2K restoration of The Breaking Point (1950), the second swipe at Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not, which is on the company’s release schedule for August 2017. You may have heard of the first version… Bogie, Bacall, Hawks, “You know how to whistle, don’t ya?” Remember that one? Well, this one, the story of a down-on-his-luck charter boat captain Harry Morgan (John Garfield) who gets manipulated into a deadly smuggling run to help make ends meet, is directed by Michael Curtiz, and it trades Hawks’ larky, Casablanca-derived vibe for something decidedly darker, a daylight-splashed noir that somehow ferrets out all the chiaroscuro shadows in Hemingway’s material nonetheless. Throughout The Breaking Point, but especially in the movie’s riveting second half when Morgan allows himself to get roped into a second, even more dangerous scheme,...
- 5/21/2017
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Paul Rudd.s turn as the miniscule hero of the latest Marvel adventure saw Ant-Man dominate Australian cinemas last weekend.
Meanwhile Jurassic World raced past The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Ring, to rank as the sixth-highest grosser of all time.
Directed by Peyton Reed and co-starring Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll and Michael Pena, Ant-Man grabbed $5.4 million including $120,000 from the Wednesday night opening.
Pro-rata that.s in the ballpark of the Us debut of $US57.2 million, which pundits rated as the second smallest opening weekend of all 12 films based on Marvel Comics, just $2 million ahead of The Incredible Hulk in 2008.
With the end of school vacation in the major States, Australian B.O. receipts fell by a moderate 19% to $17.1 million, according to Rentrak, but business is still tracking ahead of last year by about 14%.
WB/Roadshow.s Magic Mike Xxl had the smallest drop of the holdovers,...
Meanwhile Jurassic World raced past The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Ring, to rank as the sixth-highest grosser of all time.
Directed by Peyton Reed and co-starring Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll and Michael Pena, Ant-Man grabbed $5.4 million including $120,000 from the Wednesday night opening.
Pro-rata that.s in the ballpark of the Us debut of $US57.2 million, which pundits rated as the second smallest opening weekend of all 12 films based on Marvel Comics, just $2 million ahead of The Incredible Hulk in 2008.
With the end of school vacation in the major States, Australian B.O. receipts fell by a moderate 19% to $17.1 million, according to Rentrak, but business is still tracking ahead of last year by about 14%.
WB/Roadshow.s Magic Mike Xxl had the smallest drop of the holdovers,...
- 7/20/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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