Exclusive: Orlando Bloom’s Boxing Movie 'The Cut' Finds Distribution; Plus, a Full Review of '28 Years Later'

Happy Sunday, folks!

I apologize for my sporadic posting this past week, as not only have I been busy with family in Boston, but I’ve been busy seeing new movies like Echo Valley (good!) and M3GAN 2.0 (bad!), and watching new seasons of Squid Game and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the latter of which remains under embargo until July 7.

See, I respect embargoes… when I agree to them.

I didn’t agree to any embargo on Jurassic World Rebirth, which I guess lifts tomorrow.

I have a perfectly lovely relationship with Universal Pictures, but if the studio is going to participate in AMC’s Screen Unseen program, it can’t be mad when folks like me share their opinions online, as public screenings aren’t beholden to embargoes. Universal either shouldn’t have screened the movie — which I gave a mixed-positive review to —or it should’ve moved up its embargo to coincide with the first public screening. Simple as that.

Moving on, the studio can’t be happy with this weekend’s lackluster $10 million opening for M3GAN 2.0. The first film captured lightning in a bottle, spawning countless memes, but the sequel leans into that too far and fails to recreate what made the original such a crowdpleaser. The humor doesn’t work as well, plus, you really feel the limitations of its PG-13 rating.

I hated it, and yet, it wasn’t the worst genre movie released on Friday, as that dubious honor goes to Destry Allyn Spielberg’s Please Don’t Feed the Children, which was released on Tubi. I’ve been rooting for the younger Spielberg and will continue to, as I’ve followed her career for years and seen the work she has put in before getting the opportunity to direct her first feature, but this is an inauspicious debut, and the less said about it, the better.

On the bright side of cinema, Apple’s F1 is poised to open north of $55 million, which is pretty solid for an original racing movie, even one as expensive as this one. I saw it last night, and while I do plan on writing a longer review soon, this tweet will have to do for now.

Speaking of box office wins, Lilo & Stitch recently crossed the $900 million mark worldwide, so the fact that a sequel is in development comes as little surprise. It was as obvious as the fact that tomorrow is Monday.

You know what else came as no surprise? The fact that there’s another Karen Read project in development, this one boasting the participation of Read and her lead attorney, Alan Jackson. It’s unclear whether it’ll end up being a movie or a series, but Julie Yorn and LBI Entertainment are involved, and I previously reported that Compelling Pictures had teamed with local Boston blogger Aidan ‘Turtleboy’ Kearney on a movie from his point of view, as he’s had a front-row seat to the case and the ensuing media circus.

I told you that the Karen Read trial wasn’t just a Boston thing, and that it was going to have Hollywood frothing at the mouth. Now that she has gotten off and been found not guilty, it’s game on. I can’t believe Netflix hasn’t gotten into the mix yet, but stay tuned, as there’s still plenty of time…

Tonight, I’ll tell you where the Orlando Bloom movie The Cut landed nine months after its debut at TIFF last fall, plus, I offer my full review of Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, which starts hot before suffering from brain rot.

There are also items about Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network, new adaptations of Stephen King’s The Stand and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Jake Gyllenhaal going to prison, Kim Kardashian being a brat, new seasons of MobLand and The Comeback, Netflix’s Ronda Rousey biopic, Paul Dano’s reunion with the Daniels, the rights to Akira, the fate of Park Chan-wook’s new film, and the trailer for Dakota Johnson’s latest rom-com.

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