US release: 19th May 2001
Germany release: 17th January 2002
Norway release: 3rd April 2002
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Synopsis for The First Omen
A woman starts to question her own faith when she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate in Rome.
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Directed by Kenneth Branagh his retelling of the Death On the Nile hits the top of the US box office over the Super Bowl weekend which is traditionally a quiet weekend at the North American box office.
Landing at number 2 is the romantic comedy Marry Me while also making its debut on the top 5 this weekend if a new Liam Neeson movie Blacklight which lands at 5.
Also worth noting is that 2 Oscar contenders for best movie go back up the box office top 15, Licorice Pizza expands into more cinemas as increases its box office 30% over last weekend and is back to number 9 and Belfast also directed by Kenneth Branagh goes back up to number 13 with a 30% increase.
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A remake or a retelling? Director Kenneth Branagh brings his vision of Agatha Christie's fames novel, last seen at cinemas in 1978 when director John Guillermin brought his version to the big screen.
Starring a whole host of A-list stars this version tops the box office with $12.8 Million, a good strategic movie to launch during the Super Bowl weekend as the one after is usually hit by a blockbuster, this year that honor goes to Uncharted.
The movie was delayed by over a year due to the pandemic and in comparison to the directors previous Christie adaptation, Murder On the Orient Express this takes far less than that movies $28 Million debut.
Last weeks top movie falls to number 2 this week as the Jackass crew get a 65% drop over last weekend with $8 Million.
The movie has now taken $37.4 Million in North America and is the 4th top movie if 2022 so far.
Billed as a good old fashioned romantic comedy, this Jennifer Loper vehicle lands at number 3 this weekend with $8 Million which is pretty standard for a JLo romantic comedy.
The Marvel/Sony Universe movie continues to do well at the box office 9 weeks after its release and takes $7.1 Million over the weekend, a small 25% drop over last week.
Having taken $759 Million over its box office run the movie is still the top grosser or 2022, and will have likely overtaken Avatar as the third top movie on North America ever by the time you read this.
Liam Neeson continues his run of 'man on a mission with a gun' movies in this action movies which sees the action star uncover a government conspiracy and attempt to resolve it himself.
The movie lands at number 5 on the box office with $3.6 Million over the weekend.
Director Roland Emmerich has given us some of the biggest event movie in cinema from Independence Day to Stargate, and his latest movie, Moonfall has been given a 12A age rating from the BBFC for distribution in the UK.
The movie stars Halle Berry who was last seen starring and directing Bruised in 2020 and Patrick Wilson who is best known for starring in The Conjuring series of movies.
As mentioned the movie is directed by Roland Emmerich.
Movie Synopsis
The world stands on the brink of annihilation when a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling toward a collision course with Earth. With only weeks before impact, NASA executive Jocinda "Jo" Fowler teams up with a man from her past and a conspiracy theorist for an impossible mission into space to save humanity.
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As soon as CES started and Warner Bros. confirmed that they are going Blu-ray only we all knew it was only a matter of time before there would be only one format and this "war" would be over, and now it looks like Toshiba will announce their withdrawal from HD-DVD.
This speculation along with the Warner announcement and the many US retailers announcing either Blu-ray exclusivity or Blu-ray dominance in stores are enough to kill the format, who wants to buy a player that has little retail support.
Blu-ray is the winner and it's only a matter of days (if not hours) before it will become official. This is one in the eye for Microsoft who has reportedly pumped millions of dollars into support for the format and a big triumph for Sony who developed it.
The conspiracy around the Microsoft involvement is multilayer, but whatever the truth is I think that downloadable content for films and TV has taken a hit in the back of this move as well, people can buy a player with confidence now.
The good news for Sony now is their insistence of putting a Blu-ray player in the Playstation 3 might pay off, the gaming device is still by far one of the better players on the market and is still the cheapest certainly in the European market where the stand alone players are still not that common.
The players are sure to come down in price now and the HD-DVD format will slowly start to disappear off the shelves, for those that did buy an HD-DVD player you will soon be able to pick up the movies very cheap.