'Draft Day' box office: Why can't more football movies make it?
"This is the day when lives change, fates are decided, dynasties born," Berman intones. If you are expecting a plot that deals with locker room harassment and the life-changing effects of concussions, you have come to the wrong place. Berman is not the only real-life figure playing himself: "Draft Day's" cast includes more than two dozen of these folks, including legendary players like Jim Brown and even Commissioner Roger Goodell himself. And the film features enough lovingly burnished in-flight photography of NFL stadiums to occupy a six-person aerial unit, including four pilots. The team names and stadiums may be real in "Draft Day," but the characters who work for them are all fictitious, starting with Costner in his most successful big-screen role since his portrayal of "Devil" Anse Hatfield in TV's feud-centric "Hatfields and McCoys" revived his career. Costner is not the athlete he played in "Bull Durham" and ...
Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow) has been married to actor John Krasinski (NBC’s The Office) since 2010, but they’ve never worked on a project together. That’s all about to change, because Blunt and Krasinksi are now attached to star opposite each other in a supernatural thriller called A Quiet Place. Krasinksi will also rewrite and direct A Quiet Place, which will be his third film as a director and his first for a major studio (Paramount Pictures). The premise of A Quiet Place isn’t currently known, including whether Blunt and Krasinksi will play a married couple onscreen. Krasinksi’s first two films as director were Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (39 percent) and The Hollars (43 percent), which is why A Quiet Place is one of the week’s Rotten Ideas (but only marginally so).
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