Did you know that Marvel star Simu Liu was in a Fall Out Boy video? The star of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings paid his dues with smaller roles before landing his breakout movie. In fact, by doing his job, you likely never realized he was part of Fall Out Boy’s “Centuries” … Read more
10-year-old Connor Esterson successfully got his pitch for a Home Alone meets The Godfather movie into the hands of an Oscar winner. “Ma’am, I’m 10 years old, you think I could write this alone? I don’t think so.” The age demographics in Hollywood are about to skew a lot younger because a pre-teen has pitched … Read more
Without spoiling anything, Dandelion has to find the creative courage within herself. Casey may have helped light the match for her fire to burn, but the brilliant screenwriting element of the back half of this movie is that Riegel never lets it become just another story of how a woman needs a man to inspire … Read more
Boy Kills World has been acquired by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, who will give the action thriller a 2024 theatrical release. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions announced today that they have acquired Boy Kills World, the action thriller starring Bill Skarsgård which blew away audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. We’ll soon have … Read more
We first meet Nawal (Hawa) as she attempts to use a broom to pull her bra in from the fire escape where it had been drying. As it falls to the ground in front of a male passerby on the street, Nawal pulls herself back into her apartment. There is a clear separation between who … Read more
Another quiet weekend at the box office still drew a few surprises. Notably, The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla: Minus One—two Japanese films—claiming two of the top three spots. The former led the way with an impressive $12.8 million, the best US/Canada opening for GKIDS and Studio Ghibli, per Deadline. Meanwhile, Godzilla expanded to … Read more
The Boy and the Heron becomes the best domestic opening ever for GKids, Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki while Beyoncé sees a sizable drop This weekend was a relatively slow one with Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron landing in first place with $12.8 million. While that number may seem a little low for … Read more
The Boy and the Heron becomes Hayao Miyazaki’s best domestic debut while everyone who wanted to see Beyoncé appears to have done so last week Every Thursday, we here at Joblo put out our weekly predictions for the upcoming weekend box office. When we do that, we do the research in seeing where tracking has … Read more
“The Boy and the Heron” is the story of a 12-year-old named Mahito Maki, whose mother dies in a hospital fire in Tokyo, sending him to the countryside with a distant father named Shoichi and a new, pregnant mother named Natsuko, the sister of Mahito’s late mother. Mahito understandably operates from a place of grief … Read more
We review Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron again for a second opinion about Studio Ghibli’s latest emotional odyssey into the unknown. PLOT: After his mother dies during WW2, a young Japanese boy, Mahito Maki (Soma Santoki), is sent to live with his Aunt, Natsuko (Yoshino Kimura), with whom his munitions factory owner father is … Read more