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Denis Villeneuve comments on Blade Runner 2049’s disappointing box office performance

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Despite near-universal stellar reviews, the acclaimed sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049 failed to set the box office alight, with the $155 million-budgeted blockbuster having grossed just $194 million globally since it opened at the start of October. While it still has China to come this Friday, it’s looking likely that the sequel to Ridley Scott’s […]

Blade Runner 2049 ends weekend slightly up on original box office estimates

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The weekend wasn’t quite so dour for Blade Runner 2049 as the film finished the weekend slightly up on initial estimates. A film like Blade Runner 2049 opening to around $30 million at the domestic box office doesn’t sound totally mad or unreasonable on the surface of things, but when taking into account the films […]

Blade Runner 2049 opens soft with $81.5 million worldwide opening weekend

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Despite overwhelmingly positive reviews, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049 has failed to set the box office alight in its opening weekend, grossing approximately $81.5 million worldwide across the Friday to Sunday period. Tracking for the movie, which reportedly cost between $150 million and $185 million, had suggested a domestic opening weekend of around $50 […]

Blade Runner gets an Honest Trailer

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With Blade Runner 2049 set for release this Friday, Screen Junkies has turned to Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi classic Blade Runner for the latest instalment of Honest Trailers; check it out below… In 1982, audiences knew Harrison Ford as the charming, rogue Hans Solo or the charming, rogue Indiana Jones. Now, watch him ditch the […]

Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe directing a Blade Runner 2049 anime prequel

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We’ve already seen a couple of live-action prequel shorts for the hotly-anticipated sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049 focussing on the characters played by Jared Leto and Dave Bautista, and now comes word that an anime prequel is incoming from Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichiro Watanabe. According to the official press release, the short […]

Dave Bautista is a replicant on the run in Blade Runner 2049 prequel short

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A few weeks ago, Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve unveiled an “in-world” prequel short focussing on Jared Leto’s character Niander Wallace entitled 2036: Nexus Dawn [watch it here]. And now we have 2048: Nowhere to Run, the second of three shorts, this time showcasing Dave Bautista’s replicant character Sapper. Watch it below… SEE ALSO: […]