Bill Bregoli - At The Movies - November 20th 2024

Wednesday is Movie Day, right here on First Look, and it's time to visit with our movie Guy. That would be Bill Bregoli. How you doing? I'm doing all right. How are you? Oh, excellent. I'm all excited for lots of great things happening over the next next six weeks. That's right. It's going to get intense and it's a little bit of intensity this weekend. There was a big sigh of relief coming out of Hollywood because Red One, with a big movie with Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans,

made thirty four point one million dollars which is slightly higher than expectations uh... cost two hundred fifty to make who yeah and have been open the overseas for a couple weeks so uh... all told it's made eighty four point one million dollars which is a good start but there's gonna be a lot of competition coming up so we'll see how that goes yeah we will

Yeah. And number two was denim the last dance. That's been in theaters for four weeks now and has now made over $127 million in this country and did okay overseas. So that will probably make its money back. But, you know, it's not all about money. But the best Christmas pageant ever just declined just shy of 50% from the week before when it opened.

and made 5.4 million dollars this weekend and now all told it's made almost 20 million and cost about 10 to make so they're fine. Good. And the movie with Hugh Grant and two Mormon girls, Heretic, did pretty well in its second week and that only went down 52%. This weekend they made 5.1 million dollars and rounding out the top five was the wild robot. Ooh.

Which is doing just fine. It's close and long. Always in the top five. It's been in theaters for two months now. Well, when you have a kids movie, sometimes that's all you need. Yeah, it hasn't had much competition until red one this week, but it's still hung in there. So family film-wise, it's going to get a little more complicated in the next few weeks because the holidays are coming. Oh, sure. That's what we expect.

That's right. And, uh, for this week, I wouldn't call it a family film, but we've got gladiator two. Oh, yeah. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, and Connie Nielsen, who was in the first one is in this reprising her role. And once again, Ridley Scott directed so many years since the original, but this is actually kind of, I've seen it and, uh, you'll follow the story pretty easily.

uh... you know as to who's related to who from the first movie uh... they make that pretty clear and there's tons of action uh... moves pretty quickly to it's just over two hours on but moves well uh... as i said tons of action there's even a scene in which and apparently this is true they flooded the coliseum with water

and have sea battles that everybody could watch. Oh, interesting. Yeah. And in the movie, just to up that a notch, they had sharks. Oh, excellent. Yeah. So they were everything for everybody. Right. They were sharks and people whacking at each other with the swords. So I think it would do pretty well, actually. Also in theaters, a very different movie, Wicked.

wicked play out of the play Broadway for a million years that's right as finally made with the big cast into your hero Ariande grande Jeff Goldblum is the wizard the wizard he's a wizard he is a wizard do I swear and it take you know it's about a girl misunderstanding girl who has green skin she's alphaba and her friend

Glinda, she's a popular girl. They're friends at this university in the land of Oz. They meet the wizard and their friendship reaches across roads. And they use both practical sets and some CGI too, rather than just being filmed on blue screens. And the two leads insisted that they sing live as they recorded. Instead of singing, you know, mouthing slip-thinking. Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. It opens up a lot of doors for some problems, but, well, then again, that's talent, I guess. That's right. They insist on it. We don't know if this will work. I'm going to hear you breathing, and they're like, hey, we're doing it. Well, yeah. And if you had seen it on Broadway, it'd say anything would have happened. Yeah, exactly. So they even, and the women weren't responsible for this, but they planted 9 million tulips for onion land. Wow.

There you go. So you get to see all that in the big screen. Netflix is a movie based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play by August Wilson called the Piano Lesson with Samuel Jackson, Danielle, Doug Weiler, and it's about the lives of the Charles family down south and they've got an heirloom and this family piano has been in the family for years and it's decorated with designs carved by an ancestor of theirs who was enslaved.

And they're trying to move on in life and buy a farm. And the question is, should we sell the piano? Oh, where? Yeah. So John David Washington's in the movie. And he's also the real life brother to Malcolm Washington who directed it. And their father, Denzel, is one of the producers. Mm. Surprise surprise. Yeah. And Samuel Jackson, who's in it, and as well as John David and Ray Fisher and Michael Potts are also in the movie.

They all start together in the Broadway production of this from 2022 to 2023. They know the material. Another Broadway transplant to the screen. That's right. Netflix also is a movie called Joy. And it's got this great English actor in it, Bill Nye. And it takes place in 1968 to 1978 and falls the trail perlators.

Who felt who had all sorts of opposition from the church and the state and media and medical establishment because they were trying to make the world first test to baby Louise Joy Brown Mm-hmm Yeah, and they played by Thomas McKenzie James Norton and the Bill Nye as I said, so that's on Netflix called joy, you know, it's about something we kind of take for granted now, but yeah, I'll fix you that was

What are you trying to do? Yeah, that's true. Apple TV has a big movie this week, also taking place in England called Blitz. Oh, I wonder what that's about. It's about the Blitz with Jerome and the Irish actress. And she has a precocious nine-year-old son in the movie. Her character does in the movie. They live in a working-class neighborhood, but it's being bombed. And as they did in England in those days, she sends her son off to the country.

A lot of children were sent away, yes. Yeah, that's right. I remember some friends in the neighborhood that were from England in World War II. So, yeah, that was a common thing. And the movie, of course, to shake things up even more. The young boy is tired from being bullied on the train, and he's homesick, so he jumps off before he even gets there and tries to go back home.

Yeah, and meanwhile the mom's holding up her own life. She got factory work and they're all busy in factories making stuff for the war. And there's a scene in the movie where young George, the boy, is trying to escape this flooded tube station. There's subway stations there. And based on a real incident, which is something like 600 people were sheltered in the station and then it got bombed and water and gas and lots of people were killed.

Serious stuff. And once when I was in London, I went, friends took me to a pub that was in a tube station, no longer used, and where people used to shelter. So people were singing songs and stuff in there. Wow. Yeah, interesting place to be be coughing a pint. Also, speaking of World War II, there's a movie coming in in theaters called Bonhoeffer, Pastor Spy Assassin about man working, living in

living in Germany, but also spying back and forth. And then he ends up involved in a plot to kill Hitler. The name is Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer, yeah. That means real rotor. Oh, OK. Very interesting. Yeah, interesting. First name is Dietrich. OK. Yeah. And finally, there's a series I just wanted to bring it up on Max because it has a string just out of the week called Humans versus Hamster.

Oh, it's a game show. There you go. So plenty to look forward to this week and things are ramping up. Oh, great. Well, can't wait to hear about the next ones. All right, I'll tell you. Thanks, Bill. Yeah.