In this week's new releases, Johnny Depp stars in “Black Mass,” a film about Boston gangster Whitey Bulger. “Everest” stars Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal and is a dramatization of a 1996 disaster, during which eight people were killed in an attempt
For those of us who don't even like to sit in the nosebleed seats at a theater for fear of toppling into the orchestra pit, Everest is the closest we're ever going to get to scaling the world's largest mountain. Part IMAX nature
Here is a subdued true-life drama about a calamitous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996. It's a film with loads of ice, snow, beards, mountains, beards and men shouting desperate instructions at each other through their
What a brassy way to build buzz for a film. Sony/TriStar's The Walk is executing a similar roll out, exclusively in Imax on October 2 before going wide in its second weekend. Everest made $3.3M on Saturday, up 43% from
Beginning with some tantalizing/troubling glimpses of the heedless and colonialist aspects of adventure tourism culture, "Everest" then gets down to business. This movie, scripted by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy and