New Zealand release: 23rd July 2017
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$0 The sequel to the gore fest Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence, injury detail, threat.
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 stars Scott Chambers who has previously been seen in Uwantme2killhim and Patrick, it also stars Tallulah Evans who has starred in Son of Rambow and St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Frittons Gold.
Like the first movie it is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield who's only other directing outing is the first movie and he will direct Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3, the third movie in this horror series.
Movie Synopsis
Christopher Robin is plagued by unresolved memories as he tries to put his recent tragic past behind him.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh his retelling of the Death On the Nile hits the top of the US box office over the Super Bowl weekend which is traditionally a quiet weekend at the North American box office.
Landing at number 2 is the romantic comedy Marry Me while also making its debut on the top 5 this weekend if a new Liam Neeson movie Blacklight which lands at 5.
Also worth noting is that 2 Oscar contenders for best movie go back up the box office top 15, Licorice Pizza expands into more cinemas as increases its box office 30% over last weekend and is back to number 9 and Belfast also directed by Kenneth Branagh goes back up to number 13 with a 30% increase.
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A remake or a retelling? Director Kenneth Branagh brings his vision of Agatha Christie's fames novel, last seen at cinemas in 1978 when director John Guillermin brought his version to the big screen.
Starring a whole host of A-list stars this version tops the box office with $12.8 Million, a good strategic movie to launch during the Super Bowl weekend as the one after is usually hit by a blockbuster, this year that honor goes to Uncharted.
The movie was delayed by over a year due to the pandemic and in comparison to the directors previous Christie adaptation, Murder On the Orient Express this takes far less than that movies $28 Million debut.
Last weeks top movie falls to number 2 this week as the Jackass crew get a 65% drop over last weekend with $8 Million.
The movie has now taken $37.4 Million in North America and is the 4th top movie if 2022 so far.
Billed as a good old fashioned romantic comedy, this Jennifer Loper vehicle lands at number 3 this weekend with $8 Million which is pretty standard for a JLo romantic comedy.
The Marvel/Sony Universe movie continues to do well at the box office 9 weeks after its release and takes $7.1 Million over the weekend, a small 25% drop over last week.
Having taken $759 Million over its box office run the movie is still the top grosser or 2022, and will have likely overtaken Avatar as the third top movie on North America ever by the time you read this.
Liam Neeson continues his run of 'man on a mission with a gun' movies in this action movies which sees the action star uncover a government conspiracy and attempt to resolve it himself.
The movie lands at number 5 on the box office with $3.6 Million over the weekend.
To coin a phrase from a much loved movie, 'There Can Be Only One', this was true back in the midsts of time when Betamax had a fight with VHS and the same is true now, but unlike back then it looks like the better format this time has won.
So what's all this about, it's about the next generation DVD high definition format wars that has been taking place over the last year or so, two competing camps headed by Sony and Toshiba have been trying to bring a high definition successor to the DVD to market and both have been rallying to get the support of the studios to release their films on the two formats.
The various studios have been one by one taking sides, Sony of course have a large catalogue of film, from themselves and their buy out of Columbia pictures, also with large catalogues are Disney (along with Buena Vista) who have taken the Blu-Ray route and Paramount and Universal. Paramount and Universal pledged their support for HD-DVD back last year to much controversy and large amounts of money allegedly changing hands.
Warner have been on the fence about this and have been releasing films on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray, until now, Warner have now announced that they are to go Blu-ray exclusive on all their films, starting in May.
Clearly this has sent a huge shudder through the HD-DVD ranks as Paramount/Universal are now the only major studio to be backing HD-DVD, and my money is on them making a u-turn sometime this year.
To add salt to the wound New Line have also announced their allegiance to Blue-ray which means that a certain fantasy trilogy by Peter Jackson* won't be long before it's making it's way to high-def.
In figures just released Blu-ray is now outselling HD-DVD by 70% so the writing was on the wall before Warner made the announcement and in truth they have just made a good business decision to go with the stronger format.
This looks to have resolved the format was once and for all, this time next year HD-DVD should be a thing of the past and go in the Betamax hall of fame.