Superspies Defeat the Evil Clown!
Kingsman: The Golden Circle managed to dethrone Pennywise the Clown from the first place at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, Matthew Vaughn’s $100 million sequel to his 2015 action spy comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service earned over $39 million at the box office in its first weekend. It dropped to the second place, earning almost $30 million in its third weekend. With its total gross now being over $266 million, It surpassed The Exorcist‘s $232.9 million to become the most successful R-rated horror movie ever. The LEGO Ninjago Movie is in the third place, earning over $20 million in its first weekend. American Assassin grossed around $6.2 million in its second weekend, dropping from second to fourth place. Finally, Darren Aronofsky’s mother! also dropped two places from third to fifth, earning $3.2 million in its second weekend in cinemas.
Michelle Williams Joins Venom Movie
Variety reports that Michelle Williams is in talks to appear in the Sony’s upcoming Venom movie. Producers are currently negotiating with the four times Academy Award nominee to appear opposite Academy Award nominee Tom Hardy in a movie about a body-building alien organism that fights Spider-Man by shooting black goo.
Venom movie will be directed by Ruben Fleischer, best known for his 2009 dark comedy Zombieland. The screenplay will be written by Scott Rosenberg who penned such classics as Kangaroo Jack and Con Air as well as by Jeff Pinkner who did some stellar work on the TV show Fringe and less stellar work on the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus The Dark Tower. Venom should appear in cinemas on Oct. 5, 2018.
SyFy Orders Comic Book Show Produced by Russo Brothers
SyFy ordered the pilot episode of a new comic book show produced by Russo brothers, reports Deadline. Inspired by the 1980es counter-culture, Deadly Class is a story of Marcus Lopez, a troubled teenager who ends up in a secret high school for assassins, most of whom are children of mass murderers or gangsters. Published by Image Comics since 2014, Deadly Class is written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Wesley Craig.
This is just one of several pilots ordered by SyFy, with others being sci-fi horror show Nightflyers (based on a novella by George R.R. Martin), Tremors (based on the cult 1990 horror comedy) and The Purge (based on a James DeMonaco’s series of dystopian horror movies).
Joe and Anthony Russo started their careers in 2002 with a quirky low-budget comedy Welcome to Collingwood. They went on to direct some of the best episodes of cult sitcoms like Arrested Development and Community. What truly brought them fame though was their work on the 2014 superhero blockbuster Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Russo brothers will also direct the next two Avengers movies.
