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wearemoviegeeks.com | Jim Batts |Gabriel Byrne
With another post-Memorial Day weekend, yet another franchise arrives with a new entry at the multiplex. It feels like a week ago (and it was) that I wrote about the return of THE KARATE KID, which was a sequel/reboot that dealt with the loss of a major supporting character, Mr. Miyagi. This new film takes on the challenge of continuing a series when the major “title” character met his end (yeah, probably…) in the last installment.
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1 week ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |Ryan Heffernan
One of the most important aspects of a character in any form of storytelling is the impact of their name. More than just an identifier, it can be an effective and powerful tool in the design of their personality and significance in the story. This is a point that has often been most evident with regard to the greatest and most underrated villains cinema has to offer.
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2 weeks ago | 
cbr.com | Gabriel Byrne |Monica Coman
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your CBR account The John Wick franchise is expanding further. After four films in the original series, plus a spinoff prequel series, the franchise is adding the first feature film with Ballerina. The spinoff stars Ana de Armas as an assassin out for revenge, a character previously introduced in the franchise with a different actress. After many delays, Ballerina will finally head to theaters on June 6. Although the scores are not available yet, the film's...
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2 weeks ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |Brad LaCour
It’s likely no directing team will create as many classics as the Coen brothers. From the beginning of their careers, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen showed their creative range with the twisty noir flick Blood Simple and the offbeat comedy Raising Arizona. As the directing duo entered the 1990s, they continued to experiment with genres by way of their unique voice and irreverent sense of humor.
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2 weeks ago | 
movieweb.com | Gabriel Byrne |Chris Hachey
People love fantasy movies because they take us to places we've never gone before or show us things we've never seen. Fantasy worlds can open up so much for viewers and bring stories to life that they probably had never thought of. Many fantasy movies are ideal for all ages, while some are more targeted towards adults, which can introduce darker themes or more mythical creatures. Fantasy films are heavily fictional and require suspension of disbelief.
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2 weeks ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |Erick Massoto |Perri Nemiroff
When it comes to blockbusters, it's not uncommon to hear about big movies undergoing reshoots. Whenever that happens, we immediately think that it means bad news and that studio heads are having second thoughts about the story, but that's certainly not always the case. During a new press junket to promote Ballerina, Ian McShane (Deadwood) spoke to Collider's Perri Nemiroff about his experience with reshoots and what it meant for the story of the upcoming spin-off movie.
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3 weeks ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |ROB WATTS London
Ian McShane's mysterious hotelier, Winston Scott, is back in action in From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, this summer's spin-off of the John Wick action franchise. Winston's past, and that of his hotel, The Continental, was explored in the Peacock miniseries The Continental: From the World of John Wick, but McShane and his late co-star, Lance Reddick, didn't take that story into account when devising backstories for their characters.
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3 weeks ago | 
cbr.com | Gabriel Byrne |Lee Freitag
Published 54 minutes ago Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your CBR account Early box office projections for From the World of John Wick: Ballerina have been revealed. While, at a quick glance, the opening weekend tracking is nothing remarkable from the franchise, a closer look will tell a much different story. Per Deadline, Ballerina is currently tracking for an opening weekend between $35 million and $40 million at the domestic box office. The bad news is that a $40 million opening would...
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3 weeks ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |Andre Joseph
Since the '80s, the action films of Arnold Schwarzenegger have provided the kind of escapist popcorn entertainment that audiences flocked to theaters to see. His tongue-in-cheek approach to action sequences as well as his memorable one-liners became signature traits that his fans would come to expect with every new release. But all that was tossed aside for what would be his darkest action thriller with 1999’s End of Days.
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3 weeks ago | 
collider.com | Gabriel Byrne |Shawn Van Horn
Over-the-top, gory kill scenes have long been a part of horror. '80s slashers had masked killers spilling blood left and right. In the 2000s, the Saw and Hostel movies made splatter a part of the story. Today, gore is celebrated in the Terrifier franchise and In a Violent Nature. Then there's the Final Destination films, which, for a quarter of a century now, have used mass death as the focal point.
