FRIDAY AFTERNOON: New Line/Warner Bros’ Weapons can claim its third No. 1 weekend, though in its fourth frame, with a 4-day of $12M-$13M at 3,416 theaters, sending its running stateside cume to $135M by Monday. Weapons soon will topple the running domestic take of the original The Conjuring ($137.4M in 2013), and it’s already past 2016’s The Conjuring 2 ($102.5M) …
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By the time we lay eyes on the tenth or eleventh full-sized booze bottle tucked into the various nooks and crannies of Hank Thompson’s (Austin Butler) Lower East Side apartment, there’s no question this guy has problems. A generally directionless personality, a seriously scarred-up knee, and recurring nightmares of a vicious car crash that keep him GASP waking up in …
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There are two key tests of what makes a movie star. The first is whether the actor in question can carry a movie. That’s something Austin Butler does with an easy, laid-back charm in “Caught Stealing,” such that none of the characters with whom he shares the screen could be accused of stealing it out from under him. And the …
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