“Black Phone 2,” a sequel to Universal and Blumhouse’s 2022 hit slasher film, scared up $42 million at the global box office in its first weekend of release. Those ticket sales included a softer $15.5 million from 71 international territories as well as a leading $26.5 million in the United States and Canada. Top overseas openings were Mexico with $4.3 …
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‘Tron’ Might Really Be Doomed After ‘Tron: Ares’
Jared Leto may have gotten the Grid shut down for good. A new report from THR alleges that Disney is considering the nuclear option for the Tron franchise in the wake of Tron: Ares‘ struggling box office performance. The latest movie in the franchise opened last weekend to a $33.2 million domestic opening and only brought in around $60.2 million in …
Read More »Tron Franchise Future Gets Disappointing Update After Jared Leto’s Ares Flops
Disney Reviving long dormant franchises is always going to be something of an uphill battle, especially if there’s not a lot of mainstream support behind it. The arrival of “Tron: Ares” comes about 15 years after Joseph Kosinski’s “Tron: Legacy,” which was itself 28 years removed from the original “Tron” (the Steven …
Read More »All the Questions We Still Have After ‘Tron: Ares’
Tron: Ares ends with a couple of big questions about what could come next on the Grid and beyond. Unfortunately, the biggest of those after opening weekend is whether any of them will ever get answered. The film experienced a tepid opening, failing to outgross its 2010 predecessor, meaning the world of Tron may be officially dead. And yet it …
Read More »‘Tron: Ares’ earns No. 1 box office spot but falls short of expectations with $33.5 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Tron: Ares” powered up the box office grid in the top spot this weekend, but Disney’s third entry in the sci-fi franchise fell short of expectations. Despite some favorable reviews — including a three-out-of-four-star one from The Associated Press — the new “Tron” film starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges earned $33.5 million, according …
Read More »Jared Leto’s ‘Tron’ Hits the Skids With $33.5M Opening
Disney’s reboot Tron: Ares malfunctioned badly in its box office debut, coming in well behind expectations with a domestic opening of $33.5 million from 4,000 theaters. Unless it can solve its problem quickly, it will once and for all end hopes of rebooting a storied, yet troubled, sci-fi franchise that began more than four decades ago when the first film …
Read More »‘Tron: Ares’ Lightcycles Inspired by Scrapped ‘Tron: Legacy’ Sequel
43 years after the first “Tron” movie sped into theaters, the grid has once again reopened in “Tron: Ares.” The third film in the franchise follows Ares (Jared Leto), an intelligent computer program who begins to question his orders and directives from CEO Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), setting him on a collision course into the real world to find Eve …
Read More »‘Tron: Ares’ Mode Turns Teslas Into Glowing Light Cycles
TRON fights for the users – of Tesla’s navigation systems, at least for a little while. Tesla this weekend introduced a new “Tron: Ares” mode, giving drivers an opportunity to turn their on-screen vehicles into the glowing Light Cycles that have been a big part of the Disney franchise since 1982. The optional update started rolling out on Friday, as …
Read More »‘Tron: Ares’ Wants to Gaslight You About the Future of AI
Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about Frankenstein, started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized the tech bro who made him might be a hack. So he takes matters into his own hands on a quest for freedom from his suicide mission. I wish I were joking, …
Read More »Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners
Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that is not making everyone happy. Many owners view it as Tesla making in-car advertisements and/or working on something that distracts them from needed software updates. Today, Tesla announced and began pushing an update to its car owners, which essentially amounts …
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