UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 4th September to Sunday 6th September 2015… Despite four new entries cracking the top ten, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton held on to top spot in its second weekend, pulling in £1.37 million to push its UK haul to £5.8 million and […]
Nima Nourizadeh talks American Ultra
Jesse Eisenberg is slacker turned sleeper agent in Nourizadeh’s hi-octane action-comedy, American Ultra. “For me, the script combined so many different things in an interesting and organic way. The conventions will be familiar to filmgoers, but they are mashed up a little bit, which changes everything.” Iranian-British filmmaker Nima Nourizadeh is talking about action comedy […]
Max Landis talks American Ultra flop and “death” of original movies
After a big promotional push over recent weeks, American Ultra flopped at the US box office this past the weekend, grossing just $5.5 million, and the film’s lack of business has alarmed writer Max Landis, who has taken to Twitter to express his views and argue whether original films are “dead”. SEE ALSO: Read our […]
Movie Review – American Ultra (2015)
American Ultra, 2015. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo, Walton Goggins and Bill Pullman. SYNOPSIS: A stoner – who is in fact a government agent – is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he’s too well-trained and too high for them to handle. […]
