premonition ( 2007 film )
in 2007, bullock steps out with her then - husband, jesse james, at the premiere of
premonition
in hollywood .
premonition is a 2007 american drama film directed by mennan yapo and starring sandra bullock and julian mcmahon where linda hanson (sandra bullock) lives the days of an eventful week in her life out of chronological order .
this is the trailer for the 2007 psychological thriller, premonition. the film features sandra bullock, julian mcmahon, amber valletta, kate nelligan, nia long, courtney taylor burness, and shyann mcclure. shyann - mcclure. org claims no copyright to this video .
it’s a scene that offered an eerie premonition of “spider - man 3”’s fate: when it was released in 2007 (may 4 of this year will mark its tenth anniversary), the film was lambasted with the kind of rage usually reserved for joel schumacher and brett ratner .
shreveport’s glover agrees with the importance of developing an infrastructure to retain film production. the city’s 2007 slate includes “the great debaters, ” “last lullaby, ” “harold and kumar ii” and “cleaner. ”
sandra bullock plays linda, a suburban housewife whose reality keeps shifting in
premonition .
sarah – you could definitely do worse than premonition. spooning with oprah, for example .
an amazing premonition of death followed by a story of rebirth. the story of michael .
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sadie – no problem. i actually enjoyed premonition overall. and i like hearing about nakedness too .
final destination 3 is a 2006 american supernatural horror film, and the third film in the final destination series. the film was directed and written by james wong, who co - wrote and directed the first film, and was produced by craig perry. released on february 10, 2006, the film performed well at the box office despite a mixed reception from critics .
very simply, the entire film can be summed up with a very famous expression .
had it been easier to comprehend at the beginning, there' s no telling how bad premonition might have been .
“premonition” is rated pg - 13 (parents strongly cautioned). it has mild sexual situations and some strong language .
300 held to the top spot, wild hogs continued to perform well and premonition was the strong new release ...
“we woke up one morning and found ourselves in the film business, ” said arlena acree, director of film, media and entertainment for the mayor’s office in shreveport, la .
michael caine walks with bullock in a scene from the 2000 film
miss congeniality .
the dvd also includes an optional
choose their fate
feature which allows the viewers to make different decision at few points in the film. most provide only a minor alternate scenes, but the first choice allows the viewer to stop the four characters from getting on the roller coaster before the premonition, ending the film immediately .
also in 1998, bullock and nicole kidman starred as witches in the film
practical magic .
every city should be so lucky — although shreveport isn’t gloating. it was after katrina devastated new orleans along with its thriving film production that filmmakers redirected their production lenses to the film friendly environs of shreveport .
^ jump up to: a b c ebert, roger (2013) .
reviews
. roger ebert' s movie yearbook 2007. kansas: andrews mcmeel. p. 180. isbn 9780740792199. oclc 829176285. retrievedjanuary 19, 2016 .
confusing, convoluted and yet gripping and emotional almost in spite of itself premonition is the first movie sandra bullock has successfully' carried' in years .
run time: 1: 40 u. s. release date: 2007 - 03 - 16 mpaa rating :
pg - 13
( profanity, violence) genre: drama / thriller subtitles: none theatrical aspect ratio: 2. 35: 1
“we woke up one morning and found ourselves in the film business, ” said arlena acree, director of film, media and entertainment for the mayor’s office in shreveport, la. every city should be so lucky — although shreveport isn’t gloating. it was after katrina devastated new orleans along with its thriving film production that filmmakers redirected [ … ]
the film received mostly negative reviews from film critics. review aggregator rotten tomatoes reports that 8% of 157 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 3. 8 out of 10. the site' s general consensus is that
overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as memento, the sixth sense, and groundhog day .
metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, the film is considered to have
mixed or average reviews
with a rating score of 29 based on 30 reviews. despite the weak reviews, several critics, including rex reed, commended sandra bullock for her performance. (wikipedia )
los angeles (hollywood reporter) - the sandra bullock thriller “premonition” captured the top spot on the national home video sales and rental charts during its first week in stores .
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” ‘the guardian’ was the turning point, ” mayor glover said. “we helped recruit, build and keep the tank used for the film — which ranks with the james cameron tank used for ‘titanic’ — as part of our permanent film infrastructure. ”
the film was supposed to be shot in new orleans, but hurricane' katrina' forced the filmmakers to choose another location .
“premonition” also topped home media magazine’s video rental chart for the same week, generating an estimated $ 7. 3 million in rental revenue, compared with $ 4. 7 million for “hills 2, ” which bowed at no. 2. (“premonition” earned $ 47. 9 million in theaters, and “hills 2” $ 20. 8 million. )
five months later, wendy is on a subway train and spots kevin and julie. suddenly wendy has a premonition that the train will derail, causing their deaths. the three try to stop the train, but nothing works out, the screen cuts to black and the sound of screeching metal is heard, leaving the events of the premonition occur .
gross, weirdly staged, and annoyingly boring. julian mcmahon and sandra bullock are believable, but they can' t save these film .
genre roulette: the film plays around with several different genres including thriller, mystery, supernatural, horror, drama, and psychological thriller .
on the high - definition disc charts, “premonition” was the top blu - ray disc seller for the week, while “planet earth: the complete collection” was the no. 1 hd dvd seller .
that kind of press as well as a newfound fear of hurricane season has secured an abundance of post - katrina production for shreveport including feature pics such as “factory girl, ” “premonition, ” “mr. brooks, ” “homeland security” and “blond ambition. ” from august 2005 to december 2006, the city’s film revenue registered $ 300 million .
the film was released on dvd on july 25, 2006 in both widescreen and fullscreen. there is a second disc of special features, including three documentaries. two of these documentaries involve the making of the film, while the third is about the final girl character in horror films .
bet you saw this coming - the eddie murphy comedy, norbit, narrowly beat sandra bullock' s time travel thriller premonition to hang on to the no 1 spot at the uk box office last weekend .
i enjoyed this film, watched it when it came out on television and stayed way past my bed time to watch the ending! that said. .
new orleans, while immersed in shoring up its city’s infrastructure, intends to also restore its lost film production that posted revenues of $ 550 million in 2005 .
kevin costner echoed the mayor’s sentiments: “the biggest compliment you can give to a location is that you would like to return there to shoot another film. ”
one wonders whether bullock is trying to become the modern queen of time travel stories. this is her second consecutive film to dabble with non - linear movement through the fourth dimension. her previous effort, the lake house, was a romance. this is more of a drama with elements of a thriller and mystery built in. it may be overstating matters to suggest that premonition keeps the viewer guessing, but it is constructed with sufficient efficiency that most viewers will stay with it to the end. whether one forgives the film its lapses of consistency and logic is another matter .
with its soft, colourful texture and handwritten end credits, his film has a completely winning diffidence. it' s like a new friend you know you want to keep .
bullock will star in
ocean' s eight ,
an all - female remake of the heist film
ocean' s eleven
set to be released in 2018 .
with a very respectable 676, 000 units; you must remember, this is a film that only cost 8 million pounds to make, roughly, which is about $ 17 million american. the film made more than that in just one week on the home market in combined rentals and sales, so everyone involved must be very, very happy indeed .
the film easily snagged the top spot on the nielsen videoscan first alert sales chart for the week ending july 22, handily beating the horror sequel “the hills have eyes 2. ”
part of shreveport’s film infrastructure now includes production studios, according to acree, with plans for a subsidiary of nu image to build a $ 10 million facility expected to be completed year .
mary horowitz (bullock) thinks she' s in love with cable news cameraman steve (bradley cooper) in the 2009 film
all about steve .
the film went on to be nominated for five golden raspberry awards in 2010, with bullock winning for
worst actress
- - coincidentally, the same year she won the best actress oscar for
the blind side .
it' s unfortunate in more way than one that premonition is bullock' s second time - fuck film in a row, even if this one is slightly more adventurous than the lake house. as long as it trots along behind linda' s rather mundane efforts to find order and meaning in this muck, premonition is an aptly untidy investigation of housewifey malaise and potential revenge (
if i let jim die ,
she asks joanne ,
is that the same as killing him ?
). when it attempts to locate that order and meaning, however, the movie just turns silly. linda writes down events on a week' s calendar, lands in a psych ward, confronts claire, all conventional moves .
the problem with this, as with many a more conventional film about artists and muses, is that arbus comes across as a smitten nutcase rather than someone with creative urges waiting to be harnessed .
time travel movies meddle with paradoxes and causality - these things lie at the core of their essential fascination. the difference between a good time travel movie and a bad one often rests with one simple quality: having established a set of
rules
by which the paradoxes are governed, does the film remain constrained by them or does it mutate them to fit the circumstances? unfortunately, premonition is plagued by inconsistencies. there' s some interesting material in the film about pre - destination and questions about whether it' s possible to change fate, but the movie is less interested in the philosophical implications of this than it is in developing a mystery and seeding red herrings .
the film doesn' t have any meaning. not just because it' s bad. because at the very end, it' s very obvious that there wasn' t any point to anything .
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felix gonzalez, jr. speaks positively of winstead and merriman' s performances, saying
the film is not entirely unwatchable. mary elizabeth winstead and ryan merriman are likeable in the lead roles .
with a dozen loose strands still dangling at the two - thirds mark, “premonition” abandons the psychiatric subplot to become a simple melodrama in which linda, who has pieced together a timeline of past and future events, dashes to the scene of jim’s accident to try to prevent it .
ms. bullock, who proved she could act in “crash” and “infamous, ” returns to nonacting in “premonition. ” embodying a paranoid but plucky everywoman clutching at an elusive mate while trying to maintain her sanity, the best ms. bullock can manage is to seem glumly opaque .
co - production with columbia pictures, happy madison productions and broken road productions; all mgm films released starting with this film are produced following the company' s financial troubles and no longer a major distribution studio .
when linda hanson is told that her husband jim has been killed in a car crash, she is shocked to find him alive and well the next day. linda' s premonition sets off a series of puzzling events as she tries to grasp the situation and stop the accident from happening .
film, taxi 4, just missed the top five with $ 3. 94 million on 1255 screens in 7 markets for a total of $ 49. 56 million. obviously, most of that has come from france, $ 35. 70 million in fact, but the film is also doing well in russia with $ 10. 63 million so far, including $ 2. 22 million on 466 screens over the weekend .
final destination 3 has received mixed reviews from critics. rating site rotten tomatoes reports that the film holds a 45% approval rating, based on 122 reviews. bbc film reviewer stella papamichael described the reference to the 9 / 11 attacks as tasteless and gave the film a rare 3 star out of 5, after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three. most critics agreed that the film was
running out of ideas
, that there was nothing new the series could offer, other than the theme of death. positive reviews praised the death scenes, such as the tanning bed and nail gun deaths, describing them as
gruesome
and
painful
. most of the critics praised winstead' s performance, stating :
... the real tragedy is that promising young actress mary elizabeth winstead must endure this torture .
a weakness of the film can be traced to linda' s passivity. instead of being proactive, she is reactive and this robs the script of possibilities. linda does not rage against fate. for the most part, she accepts it, which limits the film' s dramatic tension. a classic victim, linda isn' t always interesting and, although bullock' s acting is fine, there are times when the character' s lack of strength limits the movie' s ability to engross. the film has its high points and the ending evidences potency (although the epilogue is not only ineffective but raises more questions than it answers) .
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maguire, in other words, is unafraid of looking unvarnished, despicable, and ridiculous, and the comedic flourishes in his performance turn out to be one of the most important functions of the film’s face - from - grace narrative .
critical reception to donnie darko: the director' s cut was initially positive: review aggregator rotten tomatoes gave the film a rating of 91% based on 43 reviews, while metacritic awarded an score of 88 out of 100, indicating
universal acclaim
. roger ebertgave the film three stars out of four, describing it as
alive, original and exciting
. [ 3 ] retrospective reviews have been more mixed, with reviewers criticizing the new soundtrack and the plot' s lack of ambiguity. the film was released on dvd on february 15, 2005, and on blu - ray four years later. domestically, donnie darko: the director' s cut took a total of $ 1. 3 million at the box office .
^ jump up to: a b c dean, jonathan (2005). ganguly, aubrey, ed. total film presents the 100 greatest movies of all time. london: future publishing. p. 33. isbn 9781858701974. ol 12042166m .
jump up ^ cantrell, ashe (january 8, 2015) .
4 director' s cuts that are worse than the original
. film school rejects. archived from the original on january 11, 2015. retrieved january 22, 2016 .
the only other new entry to trouble the top 10 was the street dance film stomp the yard, which debuted at no 10 with £191, 716, a far cry from its us opening haul of $ 25. 8m (£13. 1m) .
no wonder the husband (devid striesow) begins to smell a rat. an odd little black comedy in the gastronomic tradition of john lanchester' s the debt to pleasure, michael hofmann' s film is droll and watchable, if finally a bit inconsequential .
norbit, which has murphy in multiple roles including the eponymous mild - mannered bloke, his monstrous betrothed and his adoptive chinese father, took £1. 06m, just enough to edge premonition' s £1. 02m into second place. the latter centres on a woman who discovers that she can see tragic events in the future and tries to stop them happening .
taking over for devon sawa and a. j. cook before her, mary elizabeth winstead (2005' s
sky high
) is wendy, the beleaguered heroine who experiences the premonition. more so than cook, winstead is fully convincing and even touching in her portrayal of a young woman struggling to handle the traumatic events thrown at her .
well i walked into
premonition
today expecting the worst based on the low rating here on imdb, but throughout the course of the movie i felt my smile growing bigger and bigger. it started off smoothly and nicely, and had some of the best directing i' ve seen in a while. the suspense was held together well, and all of the acting was great. there were a few good scares even. the moment i saw the title on the poster a few months back, i thought to myself,' how can this do anything different that the final destination series hasn' t?' well i was proved wrong. this movie was put together amazingly and seemed very original to me. the only flaws i see with this movie is that you seen the end coming from 3 / 4 through the movie, and i sympathized more at the beginning of the film rather then the end. but all in all, premonition is a must see. 8 / 10 .
according to jennifer day, director of the mayor’s office of film and video for new orleans, the city extends its own hands - on southern hospitality to projects of any size, offering a range of pre - production services from location scouting to script and budget analysis .
jump up ^ garrett, jason lyle (2008) .
iv: donnie darko
. social outcast cinema: generic evolution and identification in early 21st century teen film. ann arbor, michigan: proquest. p. 83. isbn 9780549518389. retrieved february 25, 2016 .
the sloppy, absent - minded “premonition” is a giant step backward for ms. bullock, who plays linda hanson, a woman with a perfect home, a perfect husband and two young daughters. linda’s world suddenly crashes around her when the local sheriff knocks on the door and tells her that her husband, jim (julian mcmahon), has died on a business trip when his car was hit by a truck .
after her superbly understated performance as harper lee in the undervalued film infamous, i developed a whole new respect for sandra bullock. she should have been honored with an academy award nomination, along with the unforgettably brilliant toby jones, who was light years ahead of philip seymour hoffman in the role of truman capote. (they gave the oscar to the wrong actor .) anyway, ms. bullock, i have decided, is a much better performer than her career has demonstrated. in premonition, a new psychological thriller that never quite musters enough thrills to cause goose bumps, the material is only so - so, but ms. bullock does not disappoint. in the illiterate words of spike lee, she got game .
“spider - man 3” compels partly because of the evocative locations it unfolds in. peter’s run - down apartment signals his isolation from the prosperous world of his best friend, corporate titan harry osborn (james franco); the gleaming, seemingly unsupported staircase that mj descends during her performance in “manhattan memories” is a wonder, yet also shows us how far she has to fall; and the skeletal, under - construction skyscraper where the film’s final battle unfolds is a beautiful maze of metal beams with a fragility that evokes the perilous emotional states of nearly every character in the film (and offers plenty of places for a hungry symbiote to hide) .
fell one spot out of the top five this weekend despite showing some significant growth. the film did have a few openings, including a third place $ 165, 000 debut on 56 screens in turkey, but its biggest market was germany where it grew 44% to $ 651, 000 on 577 screens for the weekend and $ 22. 52 million in total. overall the film added $ 3. 47 million on 2634 screens in 43 markets for a total of $ 176. 19 million internationally with debuts in south korea, japan, and china, yet to come, (and of course it doesn' t open here till august) .
^ jump up to: a b c d e f g h i burnett, adam (july 2004) .
donnie darko: the director' s cut
: the strange afterlife of an indie cult film
. indiewire. archived from the original on august 6, 2004. retrieved january 19, 2016 .
i wake up and he' s dead. i wake up... and he' s alive .
if you' ve seen or even heard the trailer for premonition, you might have noticed that sandy bullock' s character, linda, sounds a little peeved on that last word. it' s a small thing, but offers brief hope that the movie may not be entirely predictable. the key word here is
brief .
the film' s tone and approach, presided over by german director mennan yapo (making his english language feature debut) from a screenplay by bill kelly (blast from the past), lies somewhere in the twilight between art house and multiplex fare, which may make it a hard sell to either audience. the star and the more overwrought aspects of the plot are mainstream but the philosophical implications will not appeal to those who prefer easily digestible cinematic portions. it' s also true that the more deeply one considers the movie' s themes and structure, the less sense it makes. instead of the paradoxes transforming into delicious puzzles, they become jigsaws where the pieces don' t necessarily fit. so, although aspects of premonition tantalize, other elements frustrate, and that makes for an uneasy final result .
“we chose shreveport over new orleans after scouting both cities and finding that our key locations — small town, family house, lake, etc. — were better for what we needed in shreveport, ” stuber said. “overall, it is a good place to shoot. the people and the film commission are terrific and very easy to work with. ”
started its international run this past weekend and just missed the top five on debut. it did manage $ 3. 92 million on 1, 004 screens in 8 markets over the weekend and $ 4. 53 million including previews. of this box office, nearly half of it came from a pair of third place openings in england ($ 1. 27 million on 368 screens over the weekend and $ 1. 86 million in total), and australia ($ 379, 000 on 58 screens). the film also opened in russia where the strong mutant demographic helped the film capture second place with $ 1. 38 million on 360 screens. (that was a chernobyl joke, by the way. )
the louisiana wave studio, which houses the tank, is the only feature film facility in the u. s. that can automatically generate a variety of waves up to nine feet and horizontal storm conditions. the 8, 000 square - foot tank, 100 feet long, 80 feet wide and 8 feet deep, holds 750, 000 gallons of water .
even an avid sandra bullock fan would have to admit that, while it' s slightly original, premonition also exemplifies what' s awful about the time - bending thriller subgenre. the problem, of course, is that she' s either insane (or, as a priest suggests, a witch with some sort of
shining
) or, perhaps, imagining everything in a lithium - induced dream. who can be sure? and a halfway through the movie, who even cares any more ?
most of the details surrounding linda’s husband’s (aka jim) death are simply red herrings and the main focus of the movie is on linda’s relationship to her husband. the crow, the daughter’s cuts, and the strangely prophetic police officer are ultimately unimportant to the film’s resolution. they exist solely to create confusion and raise the movie’s tension, which they succeed at quite well .
donnie darko: the director' s cut is a 2004 extended version of richard kelly' s directorial debut, donnie darko. a critical success but a commercial failure when first released in 2001, donnie darko grew in popularity through word - of - mouth due to strong dvd sales and regular midnight screenings across the united states. as a result of this growth, kelly was approached by bob berney, president of the distributor newmarket films, who suggested that the film be rereleased. kelly proposed producing a director' s cut, and was given $ 290, 000 to create what he called his interpretation of the original film. donnie darko was subsequently described as being the first
flop
to be given a director' s cut. [ 2 ]
held on strong dipping just 7% to $ 33. 77 million on 4626 screens in 41 markets for a total of $ 192. 44 million. this includes an estimated $ 6. 4 million from previews in the u. k. the film' s only major opening of the weekend was mexico where it placed first with $ 5. 46 million on 410 screens pushing
was able to hold strong dipping just one place with sixth with $ 2. 25 million on 1018 screens in 16 markets for a total of $ 22. 33 million internationally. the film wasn' t able to top $ 1 million in any single market, but came closest in france with $ 671, 000 over the weekend for a $ 7. 20 million running total .
stageworks of louisiana, offering clear span sound stage space totaling 52, 000 square feet and 25, 000 square feet of networked productions offices, including a wide range of amenities. the facility has hosted tv and film projects including, kevin costner’s “mr. brooks, ” warner bros. ’ “the year without santa, ” the weinstein company’s “the mist” and nu image’s “mad money. ”
the film' s sound quality was improved and its soundtrack revised. [ 6 ] kelly had originally wanted to use the songs
never tear us apart
by inxs and
west end girls
by the pet shop boys during the opening scene of donnie cycling home and sparkle motion' s dance at the talent show respectively, but financial constraints meant that he instead had to use
the killing moon
by echo & the bunnymen and
notorious
by duran duran. for the director' s cut, kelly was able to gain the rights to use
never tear us apart
for the opening scene, and moved
the killing moon
to later in the film ;
notorious
was not moved from the talent show scene. [ 15 ]
nicole kidman doesn' t usually sell herself short the way bullock does, but her more adventurous projects, excluding the terrific birth (2004), have a habit of remaining good ideas only on the page. fur: an imaginary portrait of diane arbus is a curio, and at least an interesting failure - it' s possible to applaud the film' s intentions while regretting its technique .
these settings are also enticing because they’re ravishing but never distracting. that’s down to the practiced eyes of production designers neil spisak and j. michael riva (who died in 2012), who achieved a remarkable sense of visual balance by channeling the cartoonish look of countless spider - man comics, yet never allowed the film’s interiors and exteriors allowed to outshine the thoughts and feelings of the men and women who inhabit them .
best of all, the film features one of the most iconic set pieces of the trilogy: the gothic spire peter kneels upon after striking mj. grimy, and framed against a stormy sky like an outstretched arm, it looks like something that belongs in batman’s morally murky world, and that intertextual friction reminds us how much peter has changed—and how far he has to go to be worthy of the mantle of spider - man once more .
soared into sixth place with $ 4. 72 million on 1521 screens in 21 markets for a total of $ 14. 61 million internationally. the film finally hit big in a non - english speaking market earning first place with $ 1. 27 million on 364 screens in russia, but was soft in its debuts in south korea and italy. in italy it managed $ 683, 000 on 198 screens, but that was a tiny fraction of the
blind faith that all will be revealed can keep you glued to a movie long after the arrival of that sinking feeling that none of what you’re seeing can possibly add up. as you watch “premonition, ” a psychological thriller that scrambles time in the life of a desperate housewife, you imagine that the director, mennan yapo, and the screenwriter, bill kelly, must have some notion of where they’re heading, so you suspend your doubts, invest your emotions and go along for the ride. after all, aren’t these hollywood professionals who know something about storytelling? and didn’t a major star (sandra bullock) sign on to the project ?
another mistake on the part of the screenplay is to offer a metaphysical explanation of sorts for linda' s unusual journey. premonition provides a scene between the lead character and a priest in which we are granted insight into the possible supernatural device that has disrupted linda' s chronology. it sounds a little silly and reminds us why movies like groundhog day prefer to leave the method of time travel to the imagination. typically, the more we learn about such mechanics, the harder they are to digest. (there are exceptions - such as in the novel the time traveler' s wife - but this isn' t one of them. )
it all begins with the landing of a meteorite, out of which oozes some inky - looking goo. what is it? where did it come from? at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter because it’s a metaphorical mcguffin (described in the film as an “alien symbiote”) that ignites the core story of “spider - man 3”: the intensely virtuous peter’s transformation into a vengeful and abusive bully who is just as repellent and cruel as the very villains he fights .
it turns out, stacy explains, that uncle ben was not murdered by dennis carradine (michael papajohn), the crook peter hunted down in the first film—the killer was actually carradine’s partner, flint marko (thomas haden church). and, just peter’s luck, marko has gained the ability to morph into sand, which turns out to be a lot scarier than it sounds (when he absorbs enough sand, he turns into a monster bigger than an eighteen - wheeler) .
premonition is as silly and inept a cut - price china shop as sandra bullock has ever been in, an occult thriller in which the events of a traumatic week for a middle - class housewife occur in random order. news comes of her errant husband' s death in a road accident. the next day, he' s alive. then comes his funeral and the revelation he was having an affair. then he' s back home. unwisely, she confides in her mother, her best friend, a cop and a psychiatrist. fortunately, a priest takes her seriously and she tempts fate to save hubby' s life. my disbelief refused to be suspended .
final destination 3 grossed $ 19, 173, 094 on its opening weekend. at the end of its run, march 30, it made $ 54, 098, 051 in north america while grossing $ 63, 621, 107 overseas, for a worldwide gross of $ 117, 719, 158. for a time, it was the highest grossing film in the final destination franchise until the arrival of 2009' s the final destination, which grossed $ 186, 167, 139 worldwide .
there is a moment early in “spider - man 3” that offers a neat summation of the film’s fiery critical reception. it begins as sunshine is pouring into the apartment of peter parker (tobey maguire), the “anonymous urban crime fighter” (as a. o. scott brilliantly described him) known as spider - man, followed by a cloud of gloom bursting in: peter’s girlfriend, mj (kirsten dunst), who announces that her performance in the musical “manhattan memories” has received a withering review .
and while the movie remains barely certified fresh on rotten tomatoes, a quick scan of its reviews reveals high - profile detractors like james berardinelli (who drew blood with a blunt declaration: “’spider - man 3′ is a chore”), roger ebert (who accused the film of having “too many villains, too many pale plot strands, too many romantic misunderstandings”), and even the movie’s director, sam raimi (who entered the fray by summing up his own work in one word: “awful”) .
was knocked out of the top five this week but still added $ 3. 82 million on 3, 537 screens in 52 markets for a total of $ 223. 77 million. the film has yet to open in japan, but that' s about it at this point and there' s little hope that the movie will hit any more milestones from now until then. however, it is already a massive hit and a huge financial boon for the studio, so everything it does earn will be pure gravy .
as the plot winds down, it becomes increasingly unimportant that she salvage the relationship with jim. the movie looks most desperate when it sends linda to see a priest (jude ciccolella) who happens to have a book tabbed with post - its, detailing
unexplained phenomena
that may or may not be premonitions, usually occurring when people have lost
faith .
whether or not his banal reminder that
nature abhors a vacuum
means linda needs to get religion or abandon it completely remains unclear. what is plain, from that initial
i deliver you into the suburbs
scene, is that the marriage is dreary, whether you measure this by her grim, repeatedly close - upped face or his resolute noncommunication. linda hates surprises, but premonition might have benefited from one or two .
jim is dead (and boy is he !) once and for all, and linda looks strangely happy. this is supposed to make the audience question the outcome. did jim somehow survive that incredible fireball and limp his burned, adulterous little feet back to his loving wife and two darling children? nope. he’s dead, baby. linda’s content because she finally accepted her love for her husband and even though she basically killed him, she killed him with love. this may seem like a weak sentiment, but the film actually took great pains to explain it – remember how the priest explains to linda that it was never too late for faithless whores her to realize what was important and to fight for it ?
mckinley high school student wendy christensen (mary elizabeth winstead) visits an amusement park with her boyfriend jason wise (jesse moss), best friend carrie dreyer (gina holden) and carrie' s boyfriend kevin fischer (ryan merriman) on their senior class field trip. as they board the devil' s flight roller coaster, wendy has a premonition that it will crash, killing everybody on board. when events from her vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, she panics and attempts to stop the coaster from being launched. wendy and several others leave or are forced off the ride - kevin, best friends ashley freund (chelan simmons) and ashlyn halperin (crystal lowe), athlete lewis romero (texas battle), goths ian mckinley (kris lemche) and erin ulmer (alexz johnson), and alumnus frankie cheeks (sam easton). moments later, the roller coaster sets off and soon crashes, killing all the remaining riders, including carrie and jason, devastating wendy .
parents need to know that if they' re looking for the usual bright - faced, charming sandra bullock, this dark thriller will be disappointing and potentially confusing. as a new widow reliving the week of her husband' s death out of sequence, it' s unclear whether bullock' s character is insane, in a drug - induced hallucination, or living in a parallel universe. several disturbing scenes include seeing a car that has just been crushed, a bloody electrocuted bird, a severed head tumbling out of a casket, a woman being committed to a psychiatric hospital, and a child' s wounded face after an accident. the film never reaches a
horror
level of graphic images, but it' s certainly too creepy for tweens .
when originally editing donnie darko in 2001, kelly was required to keep the final film shorter than two hours, with its final runtime coming to 113 minutes. [ 2 ] with more freedom in 2004, his director' s cut is twenty minutes longer than the original release. [ 16 ] most of the deleted scenes that had been included as extras on the donnie darko dvd were added to narrative, bringing the runtime to a total of 133 minutes. [ 14 ] such scenes include additional sequences with donnie and his parents, donnie' s therapist dr thurman telling him that his drugs are placebos, and his english teacher karen pomfrey teaching watership down to her class. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] close - up shots of donnie' s eyeballs were included, as well as footage of waves crashing on a beach, and a scene in which donnie and gretchen play the 1986 arcade game out run. [ 19 ]
actrice et réalisatrice africaine - américaine. elle est philanthrope. née le 30 octobre 1970 à brooklyn, new york, usa. de son vrai nom: nitara carlynn long, surnommée « nia ». taille: 1. 57 m (5′ 2″) si elle est devant la caméra dès 1986 avec le téléfilm « the b. r. a. t. patrol » dans le rôle de darla perkins, elle se fait surtout remarquer du grand public avec la série télé « le prince de bel - air / the fresh prince of bel - air » (avec will smith: elle joue lisa wilkes, sa petite amie dans la série), 16 épisodes, 1991 - 1995. l’année où démarre la série le prince de bel - air, elle est à l’affiche d’un film qui cartonne au box - office: « la loi de la rue (boyz n the hood) », 1991, dans le rôle de brandi .
“mediocre” is not a word that i have ever associated with diahann carroll, but it pretty much describes her disappointing new act at feinstein’s at the regency. poorly assembled and woefully under - rehearsed, it doesn’t fizz like dom or sparkle like a cosmo, or even grease the arteries like cheap muscatel. it just lies there, like warm root beer. no one could be more surprised, because i love her madly. but this show, which she calls “both sides now” after an ill - advised joni mitchell song that suits her jazzy glamour like an old flat - toed shoe, is not her finest hour .
maybe i’m being too churlish. let’s face it: just to be in the same room with one of god’s most inspired human creations is a certain privilege denied most mortals. at her age (she’ll be 72 in july), ms. carroll’s still got the beauty and she’s still got the chops. her energy is boundless: she thinks funny and works her sense of humor into her patter in the most winning way, and she never flounders around onstage looking for a punch line. but the material is tired and hopeless .
“i hope you dance, ” a dreary venture into the world of pop treacle, is just a waste of valuable time. and wasn’t there anybody in her circle of advisors with the good sense to talk her out of yet another in a long line of renditions of “where do you start”? maybe the varicose veins in vegas still thrill to this overwrought, oversung and overrated tune, but this is new york, and we’ve heard it until we’re ready for the lenox hill i. c. u. the first time i heard shirley horn sing johnny mandel’s unsurpassed arrangement of michel legrand’s music and the sad lyrics by alan and marilyn bergman, i sat up and nodded, “oh, yeah. ” that was about 100 years and 1, 000 singers ago. now it’s time to retire this warhorse to the cemetery plot where “send in the clowns, ” “my funny valentine” and “strangers in the night” are buried six feet under .
television has plunged us all into such a cesspool of mediocrity that when i, for one, go to a club (especially one as expensive as feinstein’s at the regency), i want to be elevated. at these prices, it’s not too much to ask. diahann carroll is capable of much more valuable work, whether she knows it or not .
in the good old days, when sophisticated new yorkers stayed out after 10 p. m. , singer - pianists were working saloons from the village to 125th street. matt dennis, bobby troup, joe derise, hugh shannon and bobby short were just a few of the boy singers who enchanted the people who knew things till the sun rose over the hudson. they’ve all gone the way of nickel cokes now, but the tradition still thrives .
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depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
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a lonely doctor, who once occupied an unusual lakeside house, begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it' s too late .
a computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger .
two gifted high school students execute a
perfect
murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective .
a big - city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after ruining her sister' s wedding and crashing a stolen limousine .
two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed - minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love .
birdee calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life .
a lawyer decides that she' s used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him .
a soon - to - be - married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff .
a hopeless romantic chicago transit authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient .
an f. b. i. agent must go undercover in the miss united states beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event .
after years of mother - daughter tension, siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the
ya - yas
, her mother' s girlhood friends .
after cheryl frasier and stan fields are kidnapped, gracie goes undercover in las vegas to find them .
the middle - class couple linda hanson and jim hanson live a wasted and routine relationship with their two daughters in their comfortable house in the suburbs. on a thursday morning, the local sheriff visits linda and tells her that her husband died in a car accident on the previous day. on the next morning, when linda awakes, she finds jim safe and sound at home. when she awakes on the next morning, she realizes that her days are out of order, but her family and friends believe she is insane.
premonition is a 2007 american supernatural thriller film directed by mennan yapo and starring sandra bullock , julian mcmahon , and amber valletta . the film 's plot depicts a housewife named linda who experiences the days surrounding her husband 's death in a non-chronological order , and how she attempts to save him from his impending doom . 
premonition is a 2007 american supernatural thriller film directed by mennan yapo and starring sandra bullock, julian mcmahon, and amber valletta. the film's plot depicts a housewife named linda who experiences the days surrounding her husband's death in a non-chronological order, and how she attempts to save him from his impending doom.
premonition is a 2007 american supernatural thriller film directed by mennan yapo and starring sandra bullock, julian mcmahon, and amber valletta. the film's plot depicts a housewife named linda who experiences the days surrounding her husband's death in a non-chronological order, and how she attempts to save him from his impending doom.