But it stuck in his head and eventually inspired this film which combines action-adventure and coming of age. Years ago he wrote a kind of joke tweet about how the “teenage” part of the mutant ninja turtles was the most interesting aspect of the characters and one that had been largely ignored by the movies. 4) which he shepherded since the beginning as a producer, co-writer, voice actor and general Ninja Turtles enthusiast. Rogen is also the driving engine behind a new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, “Mutant Mayhem” (Aug.

You know, it’s safe when you release a movie in like six theaters.” “But I’ve never had a movie release like that. This doesn’t have to be an indie movie,”‘ Holofcener said. “I think A24 felt like, ‘Oh, this could cross over. It debuted to raves at Sundance earlier this year. Her latest is an insightful New York-set comedy about what happens to a relationship when Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character accidentally overhears her therapist husband (Tobias Menzies) confessing that he doesn’t like her book. So it came as a surprise when A24 told her they wanted to go wide on Memorial Day weekend for “You Hurt My Feelings.” On quite the opposite spectrum, indie darling Nicole Holofcener has in her three decades of directing movies grown used to getting smaller releases for her films. “It feels like people are returning to the theaters.” “I’m actually glad that we waited until 2023 when officially the pandemic is over,” he said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Pre-pandemic, that usually meant more than $4 billion in ticket sales.

Since “Jaws,” the summer season has been the most important for the moviemaking industry and typically accounts for around 40% of a year’s domestic box office, according to data from Comscore. This year it kicks off on May 5 with the release of Disney and Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The summer movie season always begins before actual summer. And before you go googling, the Highlander jokes are not about that film’s disastrous 1986 box office run, but instead the enduring “there can only be one” line.

There were even a few hours in April when the internet panicked that the beach-off was canceled (it wasn’t).

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