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“Shazam!” The director is ready to abandon the “superhero discourse”

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March 21, 2023

David F. Sandberg and Rachel Zegler Urge Critics of Shazam! Fury of the Gods” on Twitter.

Superhero sequel by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. debuted in theaters over the weekend and grossed a disappointing $30.5 million, beating relatively modest expectations of $35 million.

This makes him one of the worst opening weekend performers for the DC Comics franchise, ahead of only Wonder Woman 1984 and The Suicide Squad. both came out during the pandemic and were made available for streaming immediately upon release.

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Tomatometer received a critical acclaim of 53% on Monday afternoon, with an audience score of 88%.

Rachel Zegler, who plays Anthea, Atlas’ youngest daughter, in the Shazam sequel, reacted to this weekend’s poor box office performance by urging people on Twitter to give the film a shot.

“Hey, our movie is really good!” Zegler tweeted Saturday. “but mostly I just really enjoyed doing it and the people I met doing it 🙂 go and see! give it a chance. we have 85% of the audience for a reason.”

“Some people out there are just… needlessly mean” she continued. “And it’s unnecessary. and I know, I know, “if you can’t handle the heat…” and all that nonsense, and you’re right. but our film is actually very good. it’s just cool to hate fun these days. This is fine. were good.”

On Monday, director David F. Sandberg also lamented the reaction to the film, tweeting that it had just received the “lowest critic score” for Rotten Tomatoes and the “highest audience score for the same film.”

“Critically, I didn’t expect a repeat of the first movie, but I was still a little surprised because I think it’s a good movie. Well, the Swedish filmmaker. tweeted.

The first Shazam! The film earned $53.5 million in its opening weekend of 2019.

‘Annabelle: Creation’ director completes his tweet a thread saying that he has no regrets about making “Shazam!” movies “if only for a minute”, but was looking forward to switching off from the stresses of “online superhero discourse” and returning to the horror genre.

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Winnie the Pooh movie pulled from Hong Kong theaters

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March 22, 2023

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HONG KONG — Public screenings of the Winnie the Pooh slasher were abruptly canceled in Hong Kong on Tuesday, sparking discussions about tightening censorship in the city.

Film distributor VII Pillars Entertainment announced on Facebook that the premiere of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey on Thursday has been canceled with “great regret” in Hong Kong and neighboring Macau.

In an email response to the Associated Press, the distributor said theaters had notified him that they were unable to show the film as scheduled, but did not know why. The cinema chains involved did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

For many residents, the Winnie the Pooh character is a playful mockery of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Chinese censors have briefly banned bear searches on social media in the country in the past. In 2018, “Christopher Robin”, which also starred Winnie the Pooh, was reportedly denied theatrical release in China.

The screening of the film in Hong Kong sparked concern on social media about the curtailment of freedoms in the territory.

The film was originally scheduled to be shown in about 30 theaters in Hong Kong, VII Pillars Entertainment reported last week.

The Film, Newspapers and Articles Authority said it had approved the film, and arrangements by local cinemas to show approved films “are the commercial decisions of the respective cinemas.”

The screening, originally scheduled for Tuesday night at one cinema, was canceled for “technical reasons,” the organizer said on Instagram.

Kenny Ng, a professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University Film Academy, declined to speculate as to the reason for the cancellation, but suggested that the mechanism for suppressing criticism appears to be commercial solutions.

Hong Kong is a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with a promise to keep its Western-style freedoms. But China introduced a national security law after massive democratic protests in 2019, silencing or jailing many dissidents.

In 2021, the government tightened the rules and empowered censors to ban films deemed to violate the sweeping law.

Ng said there have been more cases of censorship in the city in the past two years, mostly targeting non-commercial films such as independent short films.

“When there is a red line, there is more taboo,” he said.