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Update: August 24, 2014
SIN CITY Sequel Debuts at Dismal 8th Place with $6.5 Million
The penultimate weekend of summer ranged from lackluster to terrible for new offerings If I Stay and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, making way for Guardians of the Galaxy to reclaim the top spot at the North American box office. Guardians took in $17.6 million in its fourth weekend for a domestic total of $251.9 million and will soon become the top grossing film of the year so far in North America. Globally, Guardians has grossed $489 million to date.
From directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, Sin City 2 placed a dismal No. 8 with $6.5 million. The sequel opens nine years after the first film launched to more than $29 million (many are questioning whether the gap was too long). Sin City 2 earned a B- CinemaScore. The sequel was originally supposed to open in Oct. 2013.
Dimension Films and The Weinstein Co. are releasing the R-rated sequel, which was financed and produced by Rodriguez's Quick Draw Productions, Aldamisa, AR Films, Miramax and Solipsist. Although the producers wouldn't reveal the budget, the first Sin City cost $40 million (some put the sequel's cost north of $60 million).
"We stand behind the film, and Robert is a member of the Weinstein family. We never expected this level of rejection. It's like the ice bucket challenge without the good cause, and is a major disappointment," said TWC distribution chief Erik Lomis.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Bombs with $6.5 Million Weekend, Debuts at 8th Place
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Update: August 23, 2014
Critics Review of SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% Approval Rating (49 out of 114 critics like it)
Consensus: A Dame to Kill For boasts the same stylish violence and striking visual palette as the original Sin City, but lacks its predecessor's brutal impact.
New York Daily News - 2/5
Some pop fiction exists in its own world. But once you find that particular planet dull, sitting till the end feels like being trapped in a funhouse. Which brings us to “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.” The sequel to one of the most visually striking movies of the last 10 years continues the graphic novel-inspired landscape of its predecessor. But the characters don’t click, and the action feels dull. Willis’ dead cop appears in a few dream sequences, which only reminds us what we’re missing. Without a similarly defined hero in the sequel, this “Dame” has nothing to kill for.
Comingsoon.net - 7/10
A relatively worthy follow-up to what was a breakthrough movie for its time loses some luster from the time passed while still delivering the originality of Miller's visuals and Rodriguez's flair for action. For the second time this year, it's Eva Green's presence that saves another sequel to a Frank Miller adaptation after "300: Rise of an Empire" earlier this year, maybe because Ava is a character with a lot of different sides and Green's daring enough to expose more of herself than we've seen before. Even so, one would never think they could tire of Eva Green's naked breasts, yet even they wear out their welcome.
Rolling Stone - 2/4
The followup to 2005's eye-popping Sin City is neither the dazzler I hoped for nor the disaster I feared. Fighters and femme fatales are the staples of Frank Miller's just-famed graphic novels. And Robert Rodriquez was wise to ask Miller to join him again to direct. The movie looks good enough to inspire a million screensavers. It's just that Sin City: A Dame To Kill For doesn't explode onscreen the way the first one did. Miller's monochrome palette, splashed with color that shines like a whore's lip gloss, doesn't startle as it once did. It's like running into an ex-love and realizing that, damn, the thrill is gone.
James Berardinelli - 3/4
For those who appreciated Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 campy, kinetic film noir homage, Sin City, the 2014 follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is unlikely to disappoint. It's more of the same and, although a good deal of the freshness associated with the original has evaporated and the stories aren't quite as well packaged, the second installment remains enjoyable, fast-paced, and visually inventive. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For isn't likely to win many new converts but it won't drive away those with a penchant for this kind of supremely violent, hyper-stylized content.
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Update: August 14, 2014
THE HATEFUL EIGHT Teaser Trailer to Debut in SIN CITY 2
When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez get together, mischief always ensues. Deadline has confirmed that although Tarantino hasn’t started shooting the ensemble Western The Hateful Eight, he has managed to shoot a teaser trailer that will precede his pal Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Tarantino confirmed during an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con that he would go ahead with his Western, which he revealed to Deadline in January he would scrap because the agents of one of a handful of actors he gave the script to had leaked it. It created a drama that included a lawsuit, a killer live reading staged for charity, and then finally a deal with The Weinstein Company to giddyap in early 2015 start for the movie that will star Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell and others. How much Tarantino will have to show without yet shooting anything remains to be seen, but it certainly makes the Sin City sequel more enticing when it opens next Thursday at midnight. However, there's a catch: it might not be released online at all.
Tarantino and Rodriguez first hooked up when they shopped the package for the 1994 classic From Dusk Till Dawn, which Rodriguez directed and Tarantino scripted and played a creepy sociopath sexual predator, who with his brother (George Clooney) go on the run and hole up in a stripper bar in Mexico haunted by vampires. Tarantino also played a role in Rodriguez’s Desperado, and they hatched some pretty cool mock film trailers in 2007’s Grindhouse, the B-movie homage that sandwiched trailers by them, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie. Rodriguez’s trailer for Machete led to an actual film getting made, and a mock trailer for Hobo With A Shotgun done by Nova Scotia filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill also led to a feature that starred Rutger Hauer.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT Teaser Trailer to Debut with SIN CITY 2; Might Not Be Online
SIN CITY Sequel Debuts at Dismal 8th Place with $6.5 Million
The penultimate weekend of summer ranged from lackluster to terrible for new offerings If I Stay and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, making way for Guardians of the Galaxy to reclaim the top spot at the North American box office. Guardians took in $17.6 million in its fourth weekend for a domestic total of $251.9 million and will soon become the top grossing film of the year so far in North America. Globally, Guardians has grossed $489 million to date.
From directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, Sin City 2 placed a dismal No. 8 with $6.5 million. The sequel opens nine years after the first film launched to more than $29 million (many are questioning whether the gap was too long). Sin City 2 earned a B- CinemaScore. The sequel was originally supposed to open in Oct. 2013.
Dimension Films and The Weinstein Co. are releasing the R-rated sequel, which was financed and produced by Rodriguez's Quick Draw Productions, Aldamisa, AR Films, Miramax and Solipsist. Although the producers wouldn't reveal the budget, the first Sin City cost $40 million (some put the sequel's cost north of $60 million).
"We stand behind the film, and Robert is a member of the Weinstein family. We never expected this level of rejection. It's like the ice bucket challenge without the good cause, and is a major disappointment," said TWC distribution chief Erik Lomis.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Bombs with $6.5 Million Weekend, Debuts at 8th Place
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Update: August 23, 2014
Critics Review of SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% Approval Rating (49 out of 114 critics like it)
Consensus: A Dame to Kill For boasts the same stylish violence and striking visual palette as the original Sin City, but lacks its predecessor's brutal impact.
New York Daily News - 2/5
Some pop fiction exists in its own world. But once you find that particular planet dull, sitting till the end feels like being trapped in a funhouse. Which brings us to “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.” The sequel to one of the most visually striking movies of the last 10 years continues the graphic novel-inspired landscape of its predecessor. But the characters don’t click, and the action feels dull. Willis’ dead cop appears in a few dream sequences, which only reminds us what we’re missing. Without a similarly defined hero in the sequel, this “Dame” has nothing to kill for.
Comingsoon.net - 7/10
A relatively worthy follow-up to what was a breakthrough movie for its time loses some luster from the time passed while still delivering the originality of Miller's visuals and Rodriguez's flair for action. For the second time this year, it's Eva Green's presence that saves another sequel to a Frank Miller adaptation after "300: Rise of an Empire" earlier this year, maybe because Ava is a character with a lot of different sides and Green's daring enough to expose more of herself than we've seen before. Even so, one would never think they could tire of Eva Green's naked breasts, yet even they wear out their welcome.
Rolling Stone - 2/4
The followup to 2005's eye-popping Sin City is neither the dazzler I hoped for nor the disaster I feared. Fighters and femme fatales are the staples of Frank Miller's just-famed graphic novels. And Robert Rodriquez was wise to ask Miller to join him again to direct. The movie looks good enough to inspire a million screensavers. It's just that Sin City: A Dame To Kill For doesn't explode onscreen the way the first one did. Miller's monochrome palette, splashed with color that shines like a whore's lip gloss, doesn't startle as it once did. It's like running into an ex-love and realizing that, damn, the thrill is gone.
James Berardinelli - 3/4
For those who appreciated Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 campy, kinetic film noir homage, Sin City, the 2014 follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is unlikely to disappoint. It's more of the same and, although a good deal of the freshness associated with the original has evaporated and the stories aren't quite as well packaged, the second installment remains enjoyable, fast-paced, and visually inventive. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For isn't likely to win many new converts but it won't drive away those with a penchant for this kind of supremely violent, hyper-stylized content.
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Update: August 14, 2014
THE HATEFUL EIGHT Teaser Trailer to Debut in SIN CITY 2
When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez get together, mischief always ensues. Deadline has confirmed that although Tarantino hasn’t started shooting the ensemble Western The Hateful Eight, he has managed to shoot a teaser trailer that will precede his pal Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Tarantino confirmed during an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con that he would go ahead with his Western, which he revealed to Deadline in January he would scrap because the agents of one of a handful of actors he gave the script to had leaked it. It created a drama that included a lawsuit, a killer live reading staged for charity, and then finally a deal with The Weinstein Company to giddyap in early 2015 start for the movie that will star Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell and others. How much Tarantino will have to show without yet shooting anything remains to be seen, but it certainly makes the Sin City sequel more enticing when it opens next Thursday at midnight. However, there's a catch: it might not be released online at all.
Tarantino and Rodriguez first hooked up when they shopped the package for the 1994 classic From Dusk Till Dawn, which Rodriguez directed and Tarantino scripted and played a creepy sociopath sexual predator, who with his brother (George Clooney) go on the run and hole up in a stripper bar in Mexico haunted by vampires. Tarantino also played a role in Rodriguez’s Desperado, and they hatched some pretty cool mock film trailers in 2007’s Grindhouse, the B-movie homage that sandwiched trailers by them, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie. Rodriguez’s trailer for Machete led to an actual film getting made, and a mock trailer for Hobo With A Shotgun done by Nova Scotia filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill also led to a feature that starred Rutger Hauer.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT Teaser Trailer to Debut with SIN CITY 2; Might Not Be Online
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