Challengers scored an easy victory this weekend while Boy Kills World fell prey to a 45-year-old xenomorph As expected, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers scored an easy win this weekend, with a $15 million weekend, just a touch softer than we predicted earlier this week. The tennis-cantered love triangle was no doubt boosted by Zendaya’s star power, … Read more
The unexpected global success of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 spawned a wave of wannabes and cash-ins, many of them mixing and matching elements that they thought made Quentin Tarantino’s movie a success: Violence, drugs, ostentatiously declamatory dialogue and monologues, time-shifting stories. Of course, the real reason for its success was that it had a singular … Read more
During manic action scenes, the cameras swoop over, under, and through teeming crowds of heavily armed and often faceless heavies. Limbs break, bodies tumble through the air, and chunks of flesh frequently explode in gouts of blood. There isn’t a significant difference between the dizzying, sensational presentation of violence in any of the Boy’s fight … Read more
ComingSoon is pleased to present an exclusive track from Boy Kills World – Songs from the Original Motion Picture, which can now be pre-saved. Listen to the track titled “Lal Mahal” below. Lakeshore Records is set to release Boy Kills World — Songs from the Original Motion Picture with original songs by El Michels Affair … 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
Boy Kills World is a gory, action packed blast and a superb showcase for Bill Skarsgård’s action chops. PLOT: A deaf and mute warrior (Bill Skarsgård) raised by a mysterious shaman (The Raid’s Yayan Ruhian) attempts to topple a repressive regime. REVIEW: Earlier this year, Bill Skarsgård played a suave villain in Keanu Reeves’ John … Read more
One of the best horror films of the year is Jason Yu’s “Sleep,” which starts out like a comedy, shifts to marital drama, and then becomes something else altogether, all while barely leaving a single apartment. Yu has worked with Lee Chang-dong (“Burning,” for which Yu generated the English subtitles) and Bong Joon-ho (“Parasite”), and … Read more
A “Cannes trailer” for the dystopian action thriller Boy Kills World – starring Bill Skarsgard and Jessica Rothe, produced by Sam Raimi A release date still hasn’t been announced for director Moritz Mohr’s dystopian action thriller Boy Kills World, which stars Bill Skarsgard (It) and Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) – but while we wait for that information, a … Read more
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted more kills in Terminator 2: Judgment Day because he wanted to beat Sylvester Stallone. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Schwarzenegger and Stallone had an infamous rivalry as the two most popular action heroes in Hollywood. Schwarzenegger would have hits like The Terminator, Commando, and Predator, while Stallone would turn out Rambo … Read more
It’s also packed with details so specific that you suspect that the source wasn’t another movie or a book but someone’s life—such as the moment when a child goes wandering through a mob-owned business and innocently discovers something a child shouldn’t know about; or the nonchalant way that mob-connected teenagers flirt, smoke, carouse, and get … Read more