On HBO Max you have the most brutal action comedy just a few weeks after hitting theaters, and it is already number one in 50 countries

Asia Reaves needs a job and accepts the first one offered to her: housekeeper at The Virgil, an exclusive skyscraper in New York. But that building has been swallowing its tenants for years without leaving a trace: well, not the building, but the cult that hides behind its walls. That premise holds ‘They are going to kill you‘, action and horror comedy that tiptoed through the theaters a couple of months ago and is now one of the most refreshing and forceful proposals in the catalog of HBO Max. A whole hodgepodge of genres to which its director, Kirill Sokolov, is no stranger. His debut, ‘Why don’t you die?’, already stood out for its extreme use of violence. In “They Will Kill You” he repeats that approach but with a much larger budget and a visual work that links the film to aesthetes of the trumpet and the fountains of blood like Tarantino or Sam Raimi. All of this seasoned with a little bit of ‘The Devil’s Seed’ due to the Satanist element, its fabulous supporting cast (where Heather Graham and Patricia Arquette stand out) and the imposing prominence of the art-deco building. The film coincided in theaters with the sequel to ‘Wedding Night’, with which it shares more than one common plot detail: female protagonism, cults in mansions and a bilious forcefulness in his anti-rich message. A great double bill for one night that will send you to bed with a few bruises (you have ‘Wedding Night 2’ on Disney+, in fact). The film suffered a small and undeserved setback in theaters, but it has found its place on the Warner platform, where it started as number one in 51 countries just one day after its arrival on streaming. As happens with so many other films that find a place in digital after a lackluster track record in theaters, the playful, direct and second-round format suits it wonderfully in small spaces. Don’t forget the raincoat, the devil carries katanas. In Xataka | Today “a masterpiece that will go down in history” arrives on Netflix, thanks to an original approach to a unique science fiction story

The remake of ‘Hold it as you can’ has worked very well at the box office. Excellent news for an almost dead genre: comedy

The new version of ‘Hold it as you can are not exactly a rarity: in a cinematographic panorama absolutely full of sequelae and remakesa new version of a 1988 classic is not a precisely revolutionary decision. Something more surprising sounds, however, that we are talking about REBOOT of a mythical comedy, which returns to the gender to the rooms through the big door. AGARRATE IT 2025. We all know ‘hold it as you can’: A trilogy of police comedies that the Zaz trio rolled after ‘lands as you can’, and that made Leslie Nielsen late and throbbing star of the surreal chufla. His success unleashed all kinds of imitations, some more fortunate than others (and in Spain, many of them with the “… as you can” by the title), and now enjoy a new installment with Lian Neeson and Pamela Anderson. And all respecting the original canon: destroying parody of the thriller codes, and prominence of a star not known for its comic roles and that puts an unexpected and devastating vision on the table. Well, it has worked. It has not become the number one of the box office (it was possibly either its intention, it remains behind ‘The fantastic 4’ and ‘bad types 2’), but he has had a great start in the United States: 17 million dollars, plus 11.5 million in the countries where it has premiered (Spain does not reach August 22). A budget of 42 million is estimated, so it is an excellent starting point, in a film that can grow and stay in the rooms if your mouth works. And there are reasons to believe that mouth mouth could be activated, because also against any forecast, the film is collecting very good opinions: an a- In Cinemascore and a 90% in Rotten Tomatoes They corroborate it. Long live comedy. This box office triumph is more than a punctual success: it is a success for a genre that had not enjoyed something like that for many years. In fact, Neeson himself ironized about it in An ad that has been seen as the promotion of the filmand in which he claimed different comedies (all from Paramount, producer of this new version): ‘The reporter’, ‘Out of wave’, ‘Hot Rod’, ‘Superdetective in Hollywood’, ‘Rock School’, ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Zoolander’ and others. The web Savecomedy.org Refer to the web where you can buy tickets for the new ‘hold it as you can’. Comedy is a serious thing. Although the video is a joke, the question is very serious. Because the study comedy, with great stars, has not died at all. But Yes has done it in the rooms: Being a genre where the show is not the priority, to a large extent it has been relegated to streaming, or shyly enters combination with other genres to Abrise step towards the rooms. ‘Lilo and Stitch‘It’s family cinema,’ Novocaina ‘is action cinema,’Mickey 17‘, science fiction, and’A Minecraft movie‘, an adventure fantasy. Except for some other very punctual example, such as ‘Bridget Jones: crazy with him’ or ‘somewhat pregnant’, which do not stand out especially at the box office, the case of ‘holding it out as you can’, a pure and adulteration comedy, it is a rarity. Much more that is successful. There are no stars. It is a pity that actors that we previously identified with comedy, such as Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy or Adam Sandler have been recycling or directly disappearing from the map (or, in the case of Sandler, taking refuge in the streamingwhere he obtains very juicy dividends). Will we see a resurgence of those times in which ‘Porky’s’ (in the eighties), ‘American Pie’ (in the nineties) or ‘Virgin at forty’ (in the two thousandsses) they generated trends, made authors and distribute emerged and unleashed a wave of copies? Hold it as you can get it in his day, Maybe your reboot can work again. Header | Paramount In Xataka | The figures suggest that the domain of blockbusters in Hollywood is not over. In fact, it will go worse

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