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After winning a Golden Globe, numerous critics circle accolades as well as SAG Award, Independent Spirit Award and Critics Choice nominations, Minari has taken its success overseas as the A24 American family drama has opened at number one in South Korea. Minari has banked an estimated $2.2 million in South Korea, earning more than double of Raya and the Last Dragon in the marketplace. It is the biggest opening in the territory for an American film since Soul which earned $2.5M. The Lee Isaac Chung-directed film starring Steven Yeun is in good company as it has outgrossed the total cumulative gross in South Korea of previous Oscar contenders like The Favourite ($1.3M) and Spotlight ($2.1M). It is also on the way to surpass Green Book’ s total gross of $3M. Related Story 'Raya And The Last Dragon' Bows To $26M WW, Soft In China & Dinged By Shortage Of Latin American Screens; Minari' Scores Big In Korea Debut - International Box Office This … [Read more...] about ‘Boogie’ Opens With $1.2M; ‘My Salinger Year’ Premieres; ‘Minari’ Makes Its Way To South Korea – Specialty Box Office

Disney finds itself in a formerly familiar place as its latest release Raya and the Last Dragon has topped the weekend box office. Even though the animated fantasy/adventure is also available on Disney+ through Premier Access (meaning subscribers can pay an additional $30 to stream it) the title took in $8.6 million in its first weekend of release. That was good enough to best the competition in a still-bad-but-improving box office landscape. Raya and the Last Dragon stars Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina. Critics responded well, generally speaking, to the original feature, which currently holds a 95 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. One can't help but wonder what this one might have been able to do under normal circumstances. RELATED: Alamo Drafthouse Files for Bankruptcy, Theater Chain's Fate Remains Uncertain Last week, Tom & Jerry debuted with more than $14 million, representing one of the best openings of the last year. The animation and live-action … [Read more...] about Raya and the Last Dragon Takes $8.6 Million at the Box Office

Marvel's Black Panther is shaping up to be the first box office blockbuster of 2018, with new details about one pivotal character surfacing that could have you looking at him in a whole different light. Christopher Priest, who became the first black writer at either Marvel or DC in 1983, is perhaps best known for his iconic run of Black Panther comics in 1998, which helped revitalize the brand and serves as the inspiration for next month's Black Panther movie. At the beginning of that run at Marvel Comics , Priest created the character Everett K. Ross, played by Martin Freeman in Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther . Priest has revealed in a new interview that the character is actually inspired by Friends ' own Chandler Bing, as played by Matthew Perry. While Priest's work on the Black Panther comics was overlooked for quite some time, after retiring from comics in 2005, he would ultimately become quite the revered icon in the comics world, with current … [Read more...] about There’s a Black Panther Character Based on Chandler from Friends

20th Century Fox sparked the Deadpool 2 marketing campaign late last year after filming had wrapped, but we've yet to see any substantial footage from the highly anticipated sequel. The lack of footage has been quite hard on fans who are desperate for their first looks and Josh Brolin as Cable and Zazie Beetz as Domino. However, the wait is almost over according to a new report from Collider. The new report states that we will finally see some real footage of the movie starting on February 16th for the opening of Marvel's Black Panther . Collider reports that the first trailer for Deadpool 2 will premiere ahead of Black Panther . Additionally, and more importantly, they also report that the trailer will land online just in time for Valentine's Day (February 14th), 2 days before the big screen debut. The first Deadpool movie opened on Valentine's Day weekend of 2016, which makes for some good continuity for the Merc with the Mouth and some great news for hardcore … [Read more...] about Deadpool 2 Trailer Will Arrive in Theaters with Black Panther

The very first Black Panther clip and a brand new featurette have been released online. Marvel's Black Panther is one of the most highly-anticipated movies of the year and is poised to be 2018's first legitimate blockbuster. As the release date approaches and the marketing campaign keeps rolling down the tracks, some brand new videos have been released online to further hype up T'Challa's upcoming solo adventure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First up is a clip from Black Panther , which gives us a great taste of what to expect from the action sequences in the movie. The clip debuted on The Ellen Show , with star Chadwick Boseman having popped by for an interview. The clip features T'Challa riding on top of a high-tech car in the middle of a chase, being shot at by a machine gun that's stationed in the back of a truck. This leads up to the glorious shot of that SUV rolling over that's been featured in the trailers. The sequence is intense, well shot and doesn't … [Read more...] about First Black Panther Clip Shows Off an Electrifying Car Chase