After wrapping up around 20 hours worth of Just Cause 4’s story missions and having destructive fun blowing up basically all the things, I went back and read my review of Just Cause 3 from 2015. This, I thought, explains that deja vu sensation. With a few additions, reading that review will tell you everything you need to know about Just Cause 4’s strengths. This is a very iterative sequel, and therefore it’s just as gloriously over-the-top and action-movie stupid as the last one. It does learn from and address many of Just Cause 3’s mistakes, especially when it comes to some of the more annoyingly repetitious mission types, but it doesn’t really come with a must-have new idea to give it its own identity.
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In your daily scroll through the Netflix carousel, you’ve probably noticed a new Netflix-exclusive Christmas movie starring veteran actor Kurt Russell called The Christmas Chronicles. As it turns out, while the movie flew somewhat under the radar, the film has been extraordinary successful.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said this week that the film generated 20 million views in its first week. According to Sarandos, that would work out to a $200 million opening if The Christmas Chronicles was released traditionally in theaters.
“If every one of those [20 million streams] was a movie ticket purchase, that’s a $US 200 million opening week,” he said, as reported by Business Insider. “Even movies that go on to $US1 billion don’t typically do that in the first week.”
According to Sarandos, The Christmas Chronicles is Russell’s biggest opening ever for one of his movies. “Even in his successful career, he’s never had that many people see one of his movies in the first week ever,” he said. “That’s a testimony to what we can bring to the market for storytellers today that we couldn’t have ten years ago.”
Importantly, it’s unclear how many of the 20 million first-week streams for The Christmas Chronicles are repeats. But whatever the case, it is clear the movie has been popular, and while Sarandos is spinning the numbers in a way that makes Netflix look better, he’s of course absolutely right that Netflix is shaking up the film world.
Russell, who has been acting for decades, recently appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which made $146.5 million over its first three days and $183 million in its first week, according to the report.
The Christmas Chronicles stars Russell as Santa, along with Judah Lewis and Darby Camp as the brother and sister who caused Santa’s sleigh to crash. Together, they must all save Christmas.
The movie, which was released at the end of November, was directed by Clay Kaytis (The Angry Birds Movie) and produced by Harry Potter and Home Alone director Chris Columbus.
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The Twilight Zone TV Show Adds To Its Excellent Cast
The new Twilight Zone TV anthology series has big shoes to fill. Rod Serling’s original is regarded as one of the best shows of all time, and part of what made the program great was its excellent writing and performances.
The new version is assembling some excellent talent, too, with news today from THR that John Cho (Star Trek, Searching), Allison Tolman (Fargo, Castle Rock), and child actor Jacob Tremblay (Room, Wonder) have joined the cast that already includes Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani, and Sanaa Lathan in starring roles.
Cho, Tolman, and Tremblay will star in an episode called “The Wunderkind.” No further details about the episode or the story were divulged. The new Twilight Zone officially entered production in October,
One of the best episodes of the original Twilight Zone featured a child actor as well. The episode “It’s a Good Life” features a six-year-old boy who terrorises his community with his ability to read minds and manifest anything he wants.
The original Twilight Zone featured numerous actors who went on to become very famous, including William Shatner, Ed Wynn, Cloris Leachman, Don Rickles, and Robert Duvall, among many others.
The new Twilight Zone comes from the mind of Jordan Peele, who entered a new stratosphere and success after his acclaimed 2017 film Get Out, for which he won an Oscar. It’s incredibly exciting to think about what Peele, who is narrating, may bring to the table with the new Twilight Zone. The show airs in 2019 on CBS All-Access.
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