That’s well ahead of expectations and is another major victory for Warner Bros. and Legendary after Dune: Part II, which cleared the $600 million mark globally over Easter weekend.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire–Picture Roars to $80M Box Office Opening, $194M Globally
Godfather, The (1972): Coppola’s Artistic Achievement, Morally Ambiguous Epic, Starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
The phenomenal critical and commercial success of “Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967 revived Hollywood (and the American public’s) interest in the crime-gangster-film. More crime films were Oscar-nominated in the l970s than in any previous decade, and three won Best Picture: the action-thriller “The French Connection,” in 1971, and the two Francis Ford Coppola crime sagas, “The Godfather” in 1972, and “The Godfather, Part Two,” in 1974. In 1990, the third and last segment, “The Godfather, Part Three,” also secured Best Picture nomination
Death in Hollywood: Perdomo, Star of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ and ‘Gen V,’ Dies at 27
The actor’s career was just starting out after the Netflix adaptation of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Occupied City: Steve McQueen’s Seminal Documentary of Amsterdam, Past and Present, Mapping Street by Street (Cannes Film Fest 2023)
In Occupied City, his startling four-and-a-half-hour documentary, British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) uses everyday scenes from the contemporary City of Amsterdam to map (literally) the disastrous fate of the city’s Jewish population during World War II.
Zone of Interest, The: Glazer’s Holocaust Movie–Design of House, Garden, Pool (Cannes Fest 2023)
Glazer juxtaposes the mundanity of their day-to-day with the brutalities of the camp next door. They sit idly on wooden stools built by imprisoned workers.







