Pixar's Hoppers trounces Bride at weekend box office
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One of the most famous horror movie monsters is all the rage right now: only a few months after Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, the Creature returns in a punk-rock-infused gothic romance. From
Word was out for quite some time that The Bride! was doomed, that Gyllenhaal was having an uphill battle during production; this marks her first big-budget movie after her three-time Oscar-nominated Lost Daughter, which cost $5M. Hence the push of the pic’s release date from last fall to this weekend.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.
The Bride!, a modern retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein, takes massive swings in terms of performances, plotting and subtext, but not all of its gambles pay off.