Fox news live gramps12/28/2022 A remake of the barely-remembered 1979 movie starring George Burns and Art Carney, this is a movie hoping to bring in the same audience that went to see Freeman’s earlier comedy Last Vegas ($64 million gross) or even his earlier movie The Bucket List, which teamed him with Jack Nicholson and grossed $93.5 million. That leaves it looking to open in third place with somewhere around $20 million or even less.įor older moviegoers not interested in the Smurfs, there’s the crime-comedy remake GOING IN STYLE (Warner Bros.), starring three Oscar winning actors–Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin–as three retirees who desperately need cash so they plan an elaborate bank heist. Granted, there may be parents with younger kids still looking for ways to entertain them, but it seems doubtful this movie can do much better than The Smurfs 2. Who knows if taking a more traditional approach will work, but the biggest hurdler this Smurfs movie has to face is that there have been three weeks of suitably family-friendly PG fare, including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and last week’s DreamWorks Animation hit, The Boss Baby. Presumably, these new female Smurfs could help increase interest among younger girls who will have already seen Beauty and the Beast. What also makes this Smurfs story different is that Smurfette, the only female Smurf, is joined by a whole village of female Smurfs, voiced by the likes of Ellie Kemper ( Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Michelle Rodriguez, Julia Roberts and Ariel Winter from Modern Family. Rainn Wilson from The Office voices Gargamel, Demi Lovato voices Smurfette and other Smurfs are also voiced by well-known comic talent. Part of the charm of the previous Sony movies was their live action talent that included Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria as Gargamel, but The Lost Village introduces an all-new voice-cast. They’re taking a completely new approach by making the latest movie an entirely animated movie and hoping there are enough fans left for the characters that it can fare decently while some areas have their spring break. Its 2013 sequel opened in the exact same July weekend, and did about half those numbers across the board. The height of the characters’ popularity was in the ‘80s when there was a popular television cartoon, and there have been a number of animated films in the past, but Sony took things over in 2011 with a movie that opened with $35 million and grossed $142.6 million domestically (and another $421 million overseas). Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with THE SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE (Sony), after two previous movies, featuring the popular comic and cartoon characters by Belgian illustrator Peyo.
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