The best and worst of movie premieres

After passing the halfway point of 2024, it is time to officially welcome summer with The first summer releases of the film season. Among them, prequels to milestones of modern horror and science fiction cinema, epic westerns with a vintage flavor and a handful of crossover stories directed by one of the most special filmmakers of the moment.

But before we go over all the new releases for Friday, June 28 —which have an early release—, let’s take a look at last weekend’s box office, which brought a record under its arm and a tremendously bittersweet taste. ‘Inside Out 2’ mercilessly dominated the national box office with a collection of 6.7 million eurosleaving the rest of the titles in the top 20 a meager 1.27 million euros to share.

The second best positioned film was ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ with 0.48 million, and the third, fourth and fifth positions were occupied by ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Watchers’ and ‘Perfect Lives’. ‘ with 0.083, 0.073 and 0.071 million euros respectively. Without a doubt, an indication that the specific success of the animated film is not synonymous with a paradigm shift.

The premieres of June 28, 2024

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

• It is the third installment of the ‘A Quiet Place’ saga, which started with John Krasinski in 2018 and had its sequel in 2020.
• On this occasion, the director’s seat is occupied Michael Sarnoskiwho debuted in 2021 alongside Nicolas Cage in the highly recommended ‘Pig’.
• The film stars Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn, alongside Alex Wolff and Djimon Honsou, among others.
• ‘Day 1’, as its title suggests, is a prequel set before the original, and focuses on New York City.

Review of ‘A quiet place: day 1’ in Espinof

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

• It’s the new movie Yorgos Lanthimosthe Greek filmmaker who has just won over half the world with his remarkable ‘Poor Creatures’.
• On this occasion, Lanthimos offers us a kind of anthology with three almost independent stories.
• The cast is spectacular, and includes names such as Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau and Margaret Qualley.
• It arrives in our cinemas after turning the Cannes Festival upside down, where it sowed no small amount of controversy with its content and excessive duration.

Review of ‘Kinds of Kindness’ in Espinof

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Horizon: an American Saga – Chapter 1, 2024)

• It is the first part of the ambitious project of Kevin Costner with which the actor and director promises to recover the most classic and epic western.
• In addition to directing, Costner stars alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jenna Malone, Abbey Lee and Michael Rooker, among others.
• This first chapter lasts a whopping three hours, perhaps a bit excessive for an approach.
• ‘Chapter 1’ will be followed by ‘Chapter 2’ which will hit theaters on August 16. After that, the plan is to shoot a third and fourth.

Review of ‘Horizon’ in Espinof

And also…

House on Fire (2024)

Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram (Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube, 2024)

Invasion (2024)

Shayda (2023)

Big Boys (2023)

On the Go (2023)

Third Week (2023)

Everyone’s Friend (2023)

Rehana (Rehana Maryam Noor, 2021)

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