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Ready to get wild? You’ve come to the right place! This week’s review roundup is full of eclectic new releases we’ve reviewed just for you. There’s the new video game adaptation Borderlands starring everyone from Jack Black to Cate Blanchett, the bonkers horror film Cuckoo with Hunter Schafer in her first leading role in a live-action movie, a heist comedy, and one of the best films of the year so far you must experience for yourself. So let’s get into our reviews of what you can see in theaters and at home, ranked by what we thought of them.

'Borderlands,' 'Cuckoo,' and This Week’s Best New Releases, Reviewed and Ranked

Disney is no stranger to producing billion-dollar movies, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when the global box office from the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman buddy film, “Deadpool and Wolverine,” became the second billion-dollar film of the year. According to Box Office Pro, with an additional $57.8 million take in 52 international territories, “Deadpool & Wolverine” sprinted past the $1 billion global milestone with $1,029.5 billion over the weekend. And while it’s an impressive mark, it’s not the first film to reach that level this year. (Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” is sitting at $1,593,756,948 globally.)

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Continues to Smash Box Office Records

Borderlands brought action and an A-list cast to theaters, but the film generated little interest. The action-adventure debuted in fourth place this weekend at the box office, after ringing up a projected $8.8 million from 3,125 theaters, box office tracking company Comscore reported Sunday. The Lionsgate release made an average...

‘Borderlands’ Disappoints at Box Office With $8.8 Million Debut – After Critics Called the Film a ‘Calamity’

Since the dawn of the R rating in the 1980s, it’s been a more limited stamp on a film’s box office prospects. There’s a much lower box office ceiling on R-rated movies than there is for those of the PG-13 variety, and thus Hollywood doesn't normally back R-rated ventures with the big budgets that accompany your standard PG-13 franchise-starter. That said, some R-rated films still manage to break out in a big way regardless of budget, striking a chord with audiences that spurs repeat business and strong word of mouth.

The 20 Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movies of All Time, Ranked

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[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes and commentary from Donna Douglas are from an interview with her conducted by the author.]. Donna Douglas, who died of pancreative cancer at 82 in 2015, was an honest-to-goodness Southern Belle who displayed a natural beauty and talent in her portrayal of the hollering, rope-wearing, whistle-happy, and critter-cuddling Elly May Clampett on the 1960s classic TV hit, The Beverly Hillbillies.

TV's Beloved 'Beverly Hillbillies' Actress Donna Douglas: Nine Years After Her Death

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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie secures a theatrical release in North America.

New Looney Tunes Movie Gets a Theatrical Release

The Western genre is as old as cinema itself, as early gunslinger films became popular at the very beginning of the 20th century within the silent era. Although the Western took off in earnest in 1939 thanks to the success of John Ford’s masterpiece Stagecoach, it hit its peak in the subsequent decades due to the star appeal of actors like Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Burt Lancaster, among others. There was a brief time when the Western genre could be consistently relied upon to be successful at the box office.

10 Popular Western Movies That Were Box Office Bombs

Kate Jackson began her acting career as a silent ghost on TV's classic 1960s gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows but remains alive and well years after two horrific battles with breast cancer. Jackson went on to small screen prime-time stardom on police/detective/crime drama/comedies like The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more. This is her triumphant story.

'Charlie's Angels' Star Kate Jackson Has Courageously Battled and Conquered Cancer Several Times

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Kevin Costner got dealt a major blow by theatergoers this summer.

His Western film “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One,” which cost $100 million to make, made only $32 million during its theatrical run, which came to an end last week.

According to Box Office Mojo, the film domestically earned around $11 million the weekend it debuted in theaters on June 28.





The movie’s gross domestic total was about $29 million when it closed in theaters last week.

Kevin Costner reacts to ‘Horizon’ bombing at the box office, changes to sequel’s release

Internationally, “Chapter 1” made over $3.6 million — bringing the film’s worldwide...

Kevin Costner’s $100M movie ‘Horizon’ ends theatrical run with huge financial loss

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BORDERLANDS

Zero Stars

ZERO STARS.<br>Running time: 102 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, language and some suggestive material). In theaters. 

Sometimes when a job doesn’t work out, the former employee will omit that short-lived work experience from her resume.

For Cate Blanchett, that erasable gig is the unspeakably terrible new movie “Borderlands.” 

If I was the two-time Oscar winner, I’d hire a crack team to work around the clock to scrub all mention of it from the Internet. The film is that embarrassing.

Unfortunately, for the time being, the star of “Tár” and “Blue Jasmine” is stuck as the lead of the...

‘Borderlands’ review: Cate Blanchett video game disaster is the worst movie of the year

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	Viggo Mortensen called out Amazon in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine for the company’s decision to scrap an extensive theatrical release for Ron Howard’s 2022 movie “Thirteen Lives” and give it a global streaming launch instead. Mortensen, who starred in the well-reviewed Thai cave rescue thriller opposite Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton, said the film was a “really good movie” that MGM intended to give a full blown theatrical release to after “they did their test screenings for that movie and got the highest scores in the history of that studio.”Viggo Mortensen Hasn't Acted in a Hollywood Franchise After...

Viggo Mortensen Calls Amazon ‘Appalling’ and ‘Shameful’ for Dumping His 2022 Ron Howard Film on Streaming, Says Film Criticism Is ‘Pretty Poor’ These Days

Lionsgate’s Borderlands movie that adapts the popular video game franchise is now out in theaters. However, judging by the Rotten Tomatoes Score from both the fans and critics, the movie may have a hard time finding an audience. Update: Some fans are offering the flick is worse than Madame...

‘Borderlands’ Rotten Tomatoes Score Is In: Worse Than Madame Web, CEO Responds

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August continues to produce big numbers. Blake Lively’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us scored big, earning a massive $50 million from 4,230 theaters. That’s a big step up from the take of Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing ($17M) and yet another reminder that female-skewed dramas, particularly those inspired by books, lead to strong box office.

Box Office Results: It Ends With Us Scores Big, Borderlands Flops

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

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Actor Richard Deacon found fame on classic TV sitcoms such as The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 1961-1966), on which he played Mel Cooley, and Leave it to Beaver (CBS, 1957-1963), in which which he portrayed neihbor Fred Rutherford. Both characters were married to women, while Fred had a son.

The Secret Gay Life of Actor Richard Deacon ('Dick Van Dyke Show'): 30 Years After His Tragic Death

Its sequel is still longer away than we’d like, but 2022’s The Batman left an impression that lingers. It was definitely a treat to see in theaters, and if you’ve been thinking about how nice it’d be to watch it again on the big screen, Warner Bros. is happy to meet those demands.

The Batman Is Coming Back to Theaters

Here’s another Friday report from Puck’s Matt Belloni. A few years ago, Warners Bros greenlit an R-rated animated comedy from filmmaker Genndy Tartakovsky (“Hotel Transylvania”) called “Fixed,” about a dog’s wild last night before being neutered. The film is a co-production of Warners’...

Warner Bros. Refusing to Release Animated Movie ‘Fixed'

Walt Disney Studios is currently having an extraordinary year at the box office. Marvel projects have also bounced back to record-breaking form after some financial duds in the recent past. Disney had four of the five biggest flops in 2023, according to Deadline’s calculations. Nevertheless, Disney has made a comeback at the box office, with a number […]
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Critics are ripping the latest video game adaptation to shreds.

Borderlands Debuts at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t been having the easiest year on all of its fronts, with its latest earnings report highlighting all the changes across the different media types in the latest quarter. According to numbers highlighted from the earnings report by Bounding Into Comics, the company’s overall revenues for the same time period last year showed a decrease of 4%, with TV revenue decreasing by 27%, Theatrical revenue increasing by 19%, and the real struggle being the 41% decrease in video game revenue. The last one easily accounts for a majority of the overall decrease, being a 14% larger decrease than the TV revenues. Most of this decrease is being attributed to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Warner Bros. Discovery Earnings Report Highlights Low Returns From Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

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Borderlands Film Flops With $ 16.5 Million Opening Weekend Vs. $ 150 Million Budget

It feels like we all fell down that hole. The Borderlands movie is officially a flop. Variety reports that Borderlands came in fourth place in US...

Borderlands Film Flops With $ 16.5 Million Opening Weekend Vs. $ 150 Million Budget

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