What better way to ring in the month of October than with a spooky new trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein?
The trailer gives a closer look at Jacob Elordi’s monster, as well as Oscar Isaac’s Victor Von Frankenstein and Mia Goth as the scientist’s bride-to-be, Elizabeth Lavenza.
“My maker told his tale,” we hear Elordi’s Creature say. “And I will tell you mine.”
Later in the trailer we see the Creature walking through a hail of bullets and pushing over a grounded ship as we hear him tell his maker in voice-over, “If you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage.”
Frankenstein hits select theaters on Oct. 17 and Netflix on Nov. 7.
The Marvel film – starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach – suffered a 66% drop from its $117.6 million debut, taking in just $40 million this weekend.
The weekend’s new releases – The Bad Guys 2 and The Naked Gun – took the #2 and #3 spots with $22.2 million and $17 million, respectively. Rounding out the top five were Superman and Jurassic World: Rebirth.
The Alison Brie-Dave Franco horror film Together debuted at #6 with $6.8 million.
1. The Fantastic Four: First Steps – $40 million 2. The Bad Guys 2 – $22.2 million 3. The Naked Gun – $17 million 4. Superman – $13.9 million 5. Jurassic World: Rebirth – $8.7 million 6. Together – $6.8 million 7. F1: The Movie – $4.1 million 8. I Know What You Did Last Summer – $2.65 million 9. Smurfs – $1.77 million 10. How to Train Your Dragon – $1.35 million
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Poster for ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’/20th Century Studios
The upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, focuses on the making of the rocker’s 1982 album Nebraska, but some may be wondering why it isn’t a full-blown biopic on The Boss.
The movie is based on Warren Zanes’ book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. The film’s director, Scott Cooper, tells Entertainment Weekly that he liked the “intimacy” of the source material.
“It wasn’t about Bruce Springsteen, the icon and stadium-filling rock star,” Cooper tells the mag. “It was about Bruce alone in a rented house, trying to understand himself and his unresolved trauma through song.”
He adds that the book “captured the tension between the myth of Bruce Springsteen and the man.”
“That’s where the film lived for me,” he says. “Not in the spectacle, but in the silence, the hesitation, the uncertainty. I saw a cinematic portrait of an artist who was willing to strip himself bare.”
Cooper says the film “isn’t a typical musical biopic,” noting he didn’t want to tell Bruce’s entire story.
“It’s about honoring this particular moment — the stillness, the searching, and the emotional honesty,” he tells EW.
Cooper also had a personal reason for wanting to make a film about Nebraska.
“Nebraska was my entry into Bruce Springsteen. I was immediately struck by its minimalist quality, its power,” he says. “It seemed to come from some of the same world that I was accustomed to. You could tell that these were songs that meant something to somebody.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce and Jeremy Strong as his manager Jon Landau, opens in theaters Oct. 24.
Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in ‘Plainclothes.’ (Magnolia Pictures)
The Sundance award-winning film Plainclothes hits select theaters on Friday.
It is the first feature from director Carmen Emmi and stars Tom Blyth as Lucas, an undercover cop assigned to entrap and arrest gay men. Lucas finds himself caught in a double life when he falls for a target, Andrew, played by Russell Tovey.
Blyth told ABC Audio that Tovey is “an icon,” and that he’s always admired the actor — enough to even suggest him for the role when Emmi asked Blyth who should play the part.
“He was like, ‘If you have any ideas for who could play Andrew, send them my way.’ And pretty much the only person I came up with was Russell,” Blyth said. “And when I did, Carmen said, ‘It’s funny because I really had him in mind when I was writing the role.'”
Tovey said the themes of the film are universal.
“It’s proudly queer in its storytelling, it’s also universal in their connection. We all want love, we all have forbidden fruit, we’ve all experienced that in our times, and it’s families and it’s your work and who you are at work, who you are with your friends, who you are with your lover,” Tovey said. “We can all connect to this film on a total universal level.”
Not only is the film relatable, its themes are “vital and necessary,” Tovey says.
“The state of the world, the way that civil liberties are being reversed and rights are being stripped back and people are being demonized, we have to just keep showing queer representation and the existence and authentic lives of people. Otherwise you can deny that they’re ever there and that’s what’s happening — people are being denied their existence.”
