Unfortunately for all of them, a monstrous, 40-foot anaconda-which habitually swallows its prey whole-is on the rampage. She is joined by her cinematographer (Ice Cube) and a scientist (Eric Stoltz), among others. The crew, led by director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez), hopes to make a documentary about the Amazon tribe known as The People of the Mist. And for those developing that Anaconda movie, take what worked from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (a new hook) and Bad Boys For Life (returning cast members and production values at least on par with its predecessors) and good luck.Contains all four instalments from the popular giant-reptile franchise ANACONDAĪ big-budget B-movie thrill ride, ANACONDA stars Jon Voight as Sarone, a hardened, crusty river man riding the Amazon who is rescued by a film crew when the propeller on his boat malfunctions. With at least 14 more days to rule the roost, we’ll see if it ends its run closer to Hobbs & Shaw ($175 million) or Mission: Impossible: Fallout ($220 million). Bad Boys 3 is still playing in the A-level action movie sandbox. Weekend four for Bad Boys 3 will be weekend one for DC Films’ (also R-rated) Birds of Prey. It’s holding better thus far than John Wick 3 ($101 million in ten days after a $56 million debut and a 56% second-weekend drop), which didn’t regain its footing until weekend four. Its $117 million ten-day cume is right between Hobbs & Shaw ($108 million from a $59 million debut) and Mission: Impossible Fallout ($124 million from a $62 million launch). There was such a long period without “big” R-rated action movies, give or take flash-in-the-pan flicks like American Sniper ($350 million in 2015), that a Bad Boys For Life that gets anywhere near the $173 million domestic cume of John Wick: Chapter 3 will be among the biggest such R-rated action movies in a generation. It’s also “different” in that the kind of R-rated, grounded, star-and-character-driven action movie that used to be par for the course is now enough of a rarity that Bad Boys for Life offers nostalgia for the pre- Transformers Michael Bay movie or the pre- Pirates of the Caribbean Jerry Bruckheimer action blockbuster. Bad Boys For Life is still a “big deal” in terms of conventional wisdom even 25 years later. Recent movies like Love, Simon, Black and Blue, Blockers and Hustlers are essentially what Hollywood probably would have given us in the early 2000’s had Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean not completely upended the status quo in terms of studio slates and theatrical offerings. The potential lessons learned from those films alongside the likes of Waiting to Exhale, The Birdcage and In and Out were washed away as Hollywood’s early-2000’s obsession with four-quadrant, global-friendly action fantasy blockbusters put the emphasis on white guys becoming the special. Sadly, the onscreen diversity of Anaconda, Rush Hour and, yes, Bad Boys, is as “aspirational” in 2020 as it was in the mid-1990’s.
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