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‘Underworld: Awakening 3D’ Made $25 Million This Weekend, What Did You Think?
I know a TON of you guys saw Underworld: Awakening 3D this weekend. It just grossed an estimated $25 million, outpacing Rise Of The Lycans by a significant margin.
While I didn’t love the movie (I’m not a huge Underworld fan), I did think it was the best in the series. From my review.
“There’s almost a remarkable spark that accompanies this synergy of people cutting the bullsh*t and consciously embracing the humble simplicity of making a film designed only to be the very best kind of this type of movie. And that’s exactly what ‘Underworld: Awakening’ is. Sure I’m grading on a curve here, but it’s easily the best ‘Underworld’ movie. I was actually entertained throughout its appropriately brief 88 minute running time.”
But what did you guys think? Write in with your review now!
Also, given this film’s box office performance and its ‘A-‘ Cinemascore (which means that audiences liked it enough that we can expect it to continue to do well next weekend, unlike Devil Inside), I’d say it’s more than likely we’ll be seeing a 5TH Underworld film – even though one has yet to be officially announced.
Hit up the comments to let us know what you’d like to see in the 5th one, or if you just want the series to die already!
Neon is hitting the road this summer with Gen Z horror hangout movie It Ends.
The feature debut by writer-director Alex Ullom will officially arrive in theaters on August 21.
In It Ends, “Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“
Starring in the film are:
- Akira Jackson as Day
- Phinehas Yoon as James
- Mitchell Cole as Tyler
- Noah Toth as Fisher
“This was always a movie that was more about how we live with horror than about the actual horror. I make this joke too much, but I always wanted to see the family in Hereditary give a postgame interview and just be like, ‘Yeah, that was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying.’ Then, they all die, obviously, but like they go about their lives. The movie is constantly recontextualizing the things that happen in it,” Ullom previously told BD of his existential horror film.
It Ends premiered at SXSW earlier last year and went on to win Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
I wrote in my review, “It Ends captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a lot of pressure with no clear guide. As such, it runs through every emotion that comes with that journey.”
Ullom is already a filmmaker to watch; the newcomer has already been tapped to helm 4 X 4: The Event, which is described as Battle Royale meets Saw meets Climax.