Fate of the Furious, Spark: A Space Tail and The Lost City of Z Open In Movie Theaters Across St. Louis This Weekend

The Fate of the Furious, Spark: A Space Tail and The Lost City of Z open in theaters around St. Louis this weekend as the only movie opening in wide release. The LEGO Batman Movie  opens at Keller 8 Cinema this weekend in South County this weekend. Office Christmas Party and Jackie are among the movies now available to rent at Redbox.

See The Fate of the Furious tonight at various theaters around town, including MX Movies. The Boss Baby is also playing this weekend at MX Movies in downtown St. Louis.

Recapping Last Weekend

The Boss Baby followed up its debut with a second weekend atop the weekend box office. The animated film brought in $26.4 million and has currently brought in more than $95 million at the domestic box office. It has also topped $100 million overseas.

Smurfs: The Lost Village was the top debut film last weekend, earning $13.2 million. Going In Style was just behind with $11.9 million in ticket sales. The Case For Christ earned just shy of $4 milion in its debut.

Opening This Weekend

The Fate of the Furious

Going through the reviews of The Fate of the Furious, out this weekend and the eighth movie in the Fast And Furious franchise. Where the marketing around the last installment dealt a lot with Paul Walker’s death, this time around it’s the feud between Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. Many agree that F8 is big and over the top. They don’t agree if that “ridiculous and dumb” is in a good way or a bad way.

USA TODAY calls the film “wholly insane” and gives it three-out-of-four stars. SilverScreenBeat calls it “big, dumb fun action with a lot of heart.” Mike Scott of The Times-Picayune doesn’t really know what to think but knows that the word “dumb” can be used to describe it.

Todd M. Thatcher predicts an opening weekend of $122.7 million for The Fate of the Furious. Would topping $120 million this weekend be enough to get Dwayne Johnson his own spinoff? We’ll see.

The Fate of the Furious trailer

Spark: A Space Tail

Looking for an animated family movie with a good message? Spark: A Space Tail is the movie for you this weekend.

Spark: A Space Tail trailer

 

The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z, in theaters this weekend, is based on the book of the same name by David Grann.  Grann’s book tells the story of the journey British explorer Percy Fawcett took into the Amazon jungle in 1925.  Fawcett was never heard from again.

Charlie Hunnam stars in the film as Fawcet,  although the character in the film isn’t much like the Fawcett in the book. In fact, the Fawcett character in the movie may be closer to how he was seen in newspaper accounts of the day. Those accounts portrayed him as some great explorer that knew the Amazon well. He was apparently not that.

The Lost City of Z trailer

See The LEGO Batman Movie This Weekend At Keller 8

The LEGO Batman Movie comes to Keller 8 Cinema in South County this weekend after making more than $300 million worldwide during its initial theater run.

The LEGO Batman Movie trailer

 

Make It A Redbox Night With Collateral Beauty or Monster Trucks

Collateral Beauty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Monster Trucks, and Lion are among the movies now availble to rent at your local Redbox.

Collateral Beauty

Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton and Kate Winslet are among the stars of Collateral Beauty. The film made just $31 million at the domestic box office, which shouldn’t influence your decision about renting it. For some reason, critics decided to gang up on this movie while people who saw the film generally liked it.

Collateral Beauty trailer

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