World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
A stacked Friday for UK screens led by The Death Of Robin Hood, National Cinema Weekend returns for £4 tickets, and a separate US-only slate topped by Mark Wahlberg’s By Any Means.
Morning all — a proper start-of-autumn Friday today, with a genuinely eclectic UK slate and a nice bit of good news for anyone who’s been priced out of the cinema lately. Here’s what happened in the world of movies during the last 24 hours.
A packed Friday at UK cinemas: Leading today’s slate is True Brit’s The Death Of Robin Hood, Hugh Jackman’s take on an ageing outlaw confronting his past after a lifetime of crime, which seems to be getting very mixed reviews from my friends. This is alongside a raft of other openings: Universal’s The Incomer — Louis Paxton’s Sundance-winning Scottish-island drama with Domhnall Gleeson, fresh off opening Edinburgh’s festival last month; BFI’s Super Nature – an innovative natural history film where a diverse global community captures intimate moments of nature using shared cameras; Miracle’s Don’t Forget Me – the first ever official documentary on rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Eddie Cochran, and Picturehouse’s Leviticus, (which I saw and reviewed yesterday and which is well worth a watch). For the nostalgic, there’s a genuinely strong re-release trio too: Terminator 2: Judgment Day via Studiocanal, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (aka Whale Meat Again) via Paramount, and Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon via Park Circus. There’s also a re-release of the excellent Fall – one of my favourite films of 2022 – ahead of the release of Fall 2 next week. Ten-plus titles all told, and a proper reminder that late summer doesn’t mean a quiet release calendar.
National Cinema Weekend returns for £4 tickets: Timed nicely alongside today’s releases, the UK’s National Cinema Weekend kicks off tomorrow across the 5th and 6th, offering any film, format or seat for just £4 at more than 530 participating cinemas in the UK — a genuine return after last year’s pause. It’s inspired by the original 1996 National Cinema Day, back when attendances needed a similar shot in the arm, and with 2024’s edition topping a million admissions and will no doubt give a proper boost for the late-summer box office. (Personally, I normally avoid cinemas like the plague during these events, as irregular cinemagoers lack the normal – if declining – standards of etiquette I expect!)
Meanwhile, over in the US: American screens get their own separate slate today, with no UK date yet for most of them. Leading the pack is Paramount’s By Any Means, an action-crime thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Giancarlo Esposito, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and David Strathairn as a high-stakes law enforcement pursuit spirals into underworld territory. Also opening wide is the Cold War spy caper Mayday from Apple starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, following a stranded navy pilot who forms an unlikely alliance with an ex-KGB agent. Finally, Adam Wingard brings the horror-action title Onslaught starring Dan Stevens, Adria Arjona and Rebecca Hall to US screens as well. This sees a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers up against a badass Army sniper (Arjona) trying to protect her young daughter. Sounds like fun popcorn nonsense!
That’s your lot for today. Until tomorrow.
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