Released on: 2002
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"Stake Land" is a Slower, Subtler, Somber "Zombieland" with Vampires
Jim Mickle's "Stake Land" is proof that a film can be terribly familiar and yet still be completely engrossing. I guess there are a ton of films that prove this. We wouldn't have genres without them being defined by fairly strict formulas and still-entertaining works adhering to them. But there's nonetheless something special here, maybe because it works with multiple genre formulas, and not exactly as a hybrid so much as an overlapping. It works within the western, post-apocalyptic science fiction and the zombie movie narratives all at once. However, I wouldn't call it a post-apocalyptic zombie western, which sounds…»
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'Fast Five' Now No. 1 In UK Previews, Also Tops Korea And New Zealand
Sequels do especially well overseas, and Universal's street-car racing franchise is scoring. Thursday's previews of Fast Five in the UK at 416 locations grossed an estimated $2.1 million in the first day. The pic is No. 1 with 46% market share. It's Universal's biggest Thursday previews in history and in the Top 8 Thursday previews of all time -- bigger than previews for Iron Man and Iron Man 2 and The Bourne Ultimatum. Fast Five also opened in Korea today at 239 locations to become No. 1 with 35% market share -- twice as big as the franchise's fourquel Fast & Furious with total previews grossing $570K. It's also No. 1 in New Zealand with 40% market share and an opening-day gross of $260K at 55 locations. The total estimated grosses thus far including its No. 1 status in Australia are $7 million.»
- NIKKI FINKE
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