Shazam! earns $53 mn over weekend in North America; film may be a game-changer for DC Extended Universe
5 years, 9 months ago

Shazam! earns $53 mn over weekend in North America; film may be a game-changer for DC Extended Universe

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Scaling back to a $100 million budget and going for the lighter, comic tone, Shazam! Paramount Pictures’ remake of the original 1989 Stephen King adaptation opened in a distant second with $25 million. It’s a solid start for Pet Sematary, though far from the haul that the last big-screen adaptation of King’s conjured up: It opened with $123.4 million in 2017. Warner Bros has since steered its comic book adaptions in a different direction, leaning more on stand-alone entries less predicated on the overall “universe” and more fluctuating in tone. Marvel’s Brie Larson-led Captain Marvel, which recently crossed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales, took in $12.7 million domestically in its fifth weekend.

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Shazam! Fury Of The Gods underlines all that went wrong with DC Extended Universe
1 year, 9 months ago

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods underlines all that went wrong with DC Extended Universe

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The joke about DC Extended Universe after the globally underwhelming opening numbers of Shazam! Consecutive cold shows at the box office have emerged as villains for the studio, even as fans increasingly wonder if DC’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was ever a universe at all. With the exceptions of Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam!, almost all releases of …

Shazam! tops box offices for second week in a row... while Hellboy reboot disappoints
5 years, 8 months ago

Shazam! tops box offices for second week in a row... while Hellboy reboot disappoints

Daily Mail  

topped box offices for the second week in a row, beating out a pack of newcomers. topped box offices for the second week in a row, beating out a pack of newcomers Shazam! Staying strong: The superhero flick from Warner Bros. Pictures pulled in an impressive $25.1 million on its way to the top Little impressed at box offices, pulling …

‘Shazam!’ bests newcomers with $25.1M second weekend
5 years, 8 months ago

‘Shazam!’ bests newcomers with $25.1M second weekend

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A rush of newcomers couldn’t shake “Shazam!” from the top spot, as the superhero comedy led the box office for the second straight weekend with $25.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Lionsgate’s “Hellboy” reboot, the animated Laika Studios release “Missing Link,” the college romance “After” and even the long-delayed “Mary Magdalene,” originally to …

Shazam movie review: DC finally realises borrowing the Marvel formula is not altogether a bad idea
5 years, 9 months ago

Shazam movie review: DC finally realises borrowing the Marvel formula is not altogether a bad idea

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This is most definitely an origin story but the script cleverly buoys between the fresh and the familiar, making the audience sort of have their superhero intro cake and eat it too. Rating: ★★★★☆ Shazam is a momentous film – because this is the movie you’d remember for years as the moment DC finally rendered genuinely great cinema in its …

The stars of ‘Shazam!’ on bringing the ‘Big’-meets-Superman comic book film to life
5 years, 9 months ago

The stars of ‘Shazam!’ on bringing the ‘Big’-meets-Superman comic book film to life

LA Times  

Sitting down in a back room at a Dave & Buster’s restaurant in Hollywood, actors Zachary Levi, Asher Angel and Jack Dylan Grazer are amped-up — and not just because they’ve been playing Tomb Raider and Space Invaders arcade games for 20 minutes. But when people are saying that, you’re like, ‘Damn, maybe we did make something that special.’ ” …

Nodding to ‘Big,’ ‘Shazam!’ brings the superhero down a size
5 years, 9 months ago

Nodding to ‘Big,’ ‘Shazam!’ brings the superhero down a size

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “Shazam!” is one of those movies with a perfect elevator pitch. It can be a horror movie, which I believe something like ‘The Trench’ could be.” By going small, the happily quirky “Shazam!” is poised to be one the biggest successes in Warner Bros.’ DC Comics films. This decade, the only DC release with equal acclaim is …

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