No longer content to play underdeveloped roles in overstuffed tentpoles, China’s screen talents are turning down L.A. offers in search of bigger paydays, greater exposure and meatier roles at home. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Hong Kong’s A-list talent weren’t considered true superstars until they had made their mark in Hollywood.
Category: Action Movies
‘Logan’ Slices Box Office with $85.3M, ‘Moonlight’ Gets Bump
The R-rated “X-Men” spinoff “Logan” slashed into the weekend box office, opening with a massive $85.3 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, while best-picture winner “Moonlight” got a significant, if far from superhero-sized, Oscar bump. The debut of 20th Century Fox’s “Logan,” starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, puts it among the ranks of biggest March openings ever and top R-rated debuts.
China Box Office: ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ Debuts to Massive $33M
Beijing-based Leomus Films, the local marketing partner on the release, are now forecasting $85 million for the full weekend. Sony’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has opened to an enormous $33 million on its first day in China.
‘Tango & Cash’ Maker Andrei Konchalovsky: “Hollywood Offers a Russian Director Nothing”
He says he has “no desire” to go back and his Holocaust drama ‘Paradise,’ which made the shortlist for the foreign-language Oscar, but failed to get nominated, could not have been made the same way in Tinseltown. Andrei Konchalovsky, the director of Warner Bros.’
Russian Hill Gothic Tudor formerly owned by Nicolas Cage asks…
Right next to the cable car track in Russian Hill sits 898 Francisco St., a 1914 Gothic Tudor formerly owned by Face/Off and Con Air star Nicolas Cage. As Curbed explains , the actor paid $9.4 million for the house and an adjacent vacant lot in 2006, though it’s unclear if he ever actually lived in it.