Written by Gleisson on 3 November 2015. Posted in Reviews
When a problem arises, sit down and do the math to solve it, because that’s the only way we can not just live but also transcend our simple lives for something greater than ourselves. Getting this message across perfectly, in the form of an enjoyable yet tense survival tale, is Ridley Scott’s newest film The Martian. A sci-fi tale based on a book of the same name, the movie should do wonders for increasing applications for jobs at NASA (for astronauts and for engineers/designers at Jet Propulsion Lab, since everyone gets some glory here), not to mention working a little early magic on October’s box office. Driven not only by its engrossing concept and sure to be Oscar-nominated visual effects, but also by wonderful performances and a great script, it’s another of the top year-end contenders for Best Picture.
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Written by Gleisson on 3 November 2015. Posted in Reviews
20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Entertainment present The Peanuts Movie, coming to theaters everywhere on Thursday night. The film, a feature length adaptation of Charles M. Schulz’s 65-year-old comic strip, is hoping to catch both kids who want a lighthearted animated romp and adults who still enjoy the property and/or have fond memories of the many television specials. The official tracking puts this one at a $40 million debut, which sounds about right although a noticeably higher number wouldn’t surprise me considering the positive reviews (this one is an outlier) and the popularity of the property. Having said that, The Lorax and The LEGO Movie (which snagged over/under $70m debuts) were coming off of relative droughts in animated films, while we just had the surprisingly good and surprisingly leggy Hotel Transylvania 2.
And Spectre is going to be huge competition this weekend, especially for adults having to choose their nostalgia accordingly. Meanwhile, the film will have three solid weekends of kid-friendly play before Walt Disney's DIS +0.00% The Good Dinosaur plows into theaters on Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, this is Fox, which means it’s going to make a gazillion dollars overseas regardless of how leggy it ends up in America. Even if the film really did cost $100 million to produce (so says this year-old video from MIP Markets), this should be an easy win for Fox in the short term. Whether or not it spawns a series of Peanuts movies, I cannot say. But if we get a few that aren’t necessarily Charlie Brown/Snoopy-centric, forbwell, that I can get behind. And of course if this hits as big as expected, you can be darn sure that we’ll start hearing rumblings about a new animated Garfield movie. Just as long as nobody gets near Calvin and Hobbes…
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