This past weekend, the new film The Creator, from Rogue Onedirector Gareth Edwards, opened to $14 million in North America—a less-than-stellar number for a studio film (albeit a vastly undermarketed one, released during an actors strike) that cost around $80 million to make. Not a total failure, but still too low a number for what Richard Lawson considers a sophisticated bit of popcorn filmmaking. The movie, he writes, is “a solemn and occasionally soaring piece of science fiction that swaddles tricky ideas in dazzling visuals,” making it certainly worth a trip to the cinema.
Elsewhere in HWD, John Oliver and Bill Maher return to the airwaves following the WGA strike; Beyoncé announces a concert film; Laura Regensdorf catches up with Amanda Seyfried in Paris; and Rosemary Counter chats with champion gabber Mayim Bialik.
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