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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Friendship' Rocks As Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Bromance Expands
Audiences are really latching onto A24's Friendship, buoying it to no. 7 at the domestic box office on just 60 screens with a $1.4 million weekend ($23k per screen average) and a $2+ million cume. The film by Andrew DeYoung debuted on six screens last week with a top limited opening and can now boast a hugely successful expansion. The R-rated comedy stars comedian Tim Robinson as suburban dad Craig whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a new neighbor (Paul Rudd). More from Deadline 'Friendship' Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson's Hometown Detroit; 'Sister Midnight', 'The Old Woman With The Knife' - Specialty Preview 'Friendship' Skyrockets To Top Limited Opening Of 2025 For Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Comedy - Specialty Box Office 'Friendship' Comedy Bromance With Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Selling Tickets And Hats - Specialty Preview Certified Fresh RT (89% with critics, 83% audience score) and backed by excellent exit polls, the bromance is generating tremendous word-of-mouth. Expands to a limited nationwide release over Memorial Day weekend as it settles into a long theatrical run throughout the summer. Indie grosses can trickle in through early in the week, will update with any new numbers. Kani Releasing releases Yoko Yamanaka's Desert of Namibia exclusively at Metrograph in New York to sold-out screenings, with an estimated opening weekend box office of $4.5k. Expands to LA next week with an exclusive engagement at Laemmle Theatres, with director Q&As hosted by fellow filmmakers India Donaldson (Good One) and Winnie Cheung (Residency). She will screen her debut film Aniko at American Cinematheque May 22, hosted by Carson Lund (Eephus). Logline: mercurial 21-year-old Kana (Yuumi Kawai), a hair-removal technician at a salon in Tokyo, who bristles against the beauty expectations placed on women her age. Her erratic moods and default to self-destruct impacts all of her relationships as moments of levity erupt into violence and optimism simmers to despair. And s Saturday transmission of Strauss's Salome from Fathom grossed $622.5k in North America at about 800 cinema screens. Conducted by the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and starring soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, the title had the seventh highest per-screen average (with only one screening) of all filmed content screenings across North America and was ranked sixth in North America Saturday. Encore screenings in U.S on May 21. An estimated 31,500 people saw Salome live (with an additional $700k across more than 800 screens internationally). Fathom's presentation of Kiki's Delivery Service as part of its Studio Ghibli Fest grossed $1+ million on 1,062 screens giving the rerelease a no. 9 spot. Sideshow/Janus Films' release of Jia Zhangke's Caught By The Tides grossed an estimated $45.3k on 16 screens for a week 2 cume of $ Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far
Forbes
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The Assassin In ‘The Old Woman With The Knife' May Have Lost Her Edge
Lee Hye-young turns on the vet who bandaged her arm, played by Yeon Woo-jin. It's awful to be abandoned when you are old and sick, says the veterinarian played by Yeon Woo-jin in the film The Old Woman With The Knife. He's talking about the stray dog brought to him by Hornclaw, the legendary assassin played by Lee Hye-young. Hornclaw does not usually let herself get emotionally attached, yet his words prompt her to bring the dog home. Emotional attachments are a liability for an assassin. Known as the Godmother, she works with an agency that describes itself as exterminators. They kill people they consider vermin, fulfilling client requests that often ask for the most grisly and punishing deaths. Hornclaw has been an assassin for most of her life, but now that she's in her 60s she worries about losing some of her edge. She's still killing people, she's still lethal, but health issues have made her vulnerable and some might argue less effective. Her enemies have no problem telling her how useless she is now that she's old. Those comments are likely to get them killed. Pagwa, played by Kim Kang-woo (The Tyrant) runs the pest control organization she works for and he's ready for a change—maybe less killing for noble reasons and more killing for profit—but that would mean getting rid of the principled Hornclaw. He hires a young thug, named Too-woo, played by Kim Sung-cheol, who really enjoys killing with or without justification. Too-woo shadows Hornclaw, supposedly to help her, but he has his own reasons to get rid of her. Kim Sung-cheol plays a thug assigned to shadow an assassin in 'The Old Woman With The Knife.' The vet who helped Hornclaw's stray dog is a nice guy, much too nice to become involved with assassins, but that's just what happens when he helps Hornclaw. The cool-headed assassin, who has successfully avoided emotional attachments, suddenly finds herself adopting a dog and a family she wants to protect. The female-centered action thriller, which premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, explores issues of aging, control and the cost of violence. Lee 's raw portrayal of Hornclaw makes it easy for viewers to feel her scars. Even when the character seems calm, there's an undercurrent of fear, a wariness that makes her a great assassin. Lee has a long history of memorable roles, appearing in dramas from Boys Over Flowers to Bitter Sweet and in films such as In Front Of Your Face, which was a Cannes Official Selection, and The Novelist's Film, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlinale 2022). Kim Sung-cheol, who plays a loathsome villain in this blood-splattered film, recently appeared in Death's Game, Hellbound 2 and Sweet Home 3, while Yeon Woo-jin can be see in the dramas A Virtuous Business, Daily Dose of Sunshine and Thirty-Nine. The Old Woman With The Knife is based on the novel Pagwa by Gu Byeong-mo, author of Apartment Women, a New York Times' Editors Choice. The novel was adapted for the screen and directed by Min Kyu-dong. Distributed by Well Go USA, the film was released in South Korea on April 30 and opens in U.S. theaters on May 16,
