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 Perhaps he’s not so perfect after all 
After its second weekend of release in the US of A, movie thriller The Perfect Guy stayed in the top four of the box office.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, sequel to last summer’s hit, and Johnny Depp starer Black Mass took the 1st and 2nd spots respectively. Last week’s runner up to The Perfect Guy, M. Night Shyamalan’s new film The Visit fared slightly better during the week to nudge ahead of it into 3rd place.
Also, apparently The Perfect Guy also opened in a few international territories, mostly in the middle and far east, which added an extra few hundred thousand dollars to the kitty.
 All-in-all so far the film has taken over $40m, more than three times the production budget of $12m. A tidy little earner for the studio. That’s before the release in most of the rest of the world, including the large European market.
To celebrate the continued success of the film I’ve added a small set of full HD (1080p) screencaps of Kathryn in the original trailer. They are now in the Gallery.
 The Sitges International Film Festival in Spain has published their schedule of screenings for the upcoming event.
Horror western Bone Tomahawk will be shown three times over the course of three days in the middle of the 10-day long festival held in the town of Sitges, near Barcelona. I previously reported the film appearing at the festival here.
The specifics are:
- Monday, 12th of October at 1am (so technically the 13th) at the new ‘Tramuntana’ cinema in the Hotel Melia complex.
- Tuesday, 13th of October at 23:30 at the huge near-1,400 seat capacity ‘Auditori’ cinema, also within the facilities of the Hotel Melia.
- Wednesday, 14th of October at 00:45 (i.e. the 15th) at the ‘Cine El Retiro’ in the centre of Sitges town.
More details and tickets are available on the official website.
Will any of our Spanish readers be able to attend?
The US market box office figures for the weekend just gone have been coming today.
The Perfect Guy was number 1 with takings just above the other big new release, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit.
Said to have cost around $12m to produce, The Perfect Guy took $26.7m in it’s opening weekend.
Generally speaking a film needs to make around three times their budget to be in profit. The cinemas, distributors, promoters, etc. all get their cut. So, the movie is well on it’s way to being a success for Sony’s Screen Gem division that’s produced it. One of its biggest in fact, already in the company’s top 10 openings apparently. Another few weekends and then the releases around the globe should push it considerably further. Then there’s the DVD release to come.
Congratulations to all involved on the success.
The critics have been less kind to The Perfect Guy but they seem to have little influence on the public in general. Further evidence of that is The Visit was also given a mixed reception.
Update (16th Sept): A small detail I missed when I posted the above item was the fact that The Perfect Guy was not preview screened or screened for critics prior to the Friday release. Most films are ‘preview screened’ on days before the official launch date, usually a Friday. Often this is just the Thursday but increasingly it can start earlier in the week or even back to the previous weekend. For reasons best known to the film industry all these extra days are included in the normal three-day opening weekend. This is done to boost the takings to increase the chances of it being number 1. It’s all marketing. So, it is to The Perfect Guy‘s credit that it achieved the top spot despite only have ticket sales from three days. The lack of screenings for critics before release does tend to suggest the feeling was that the film would not be well received, and the wish to keep the opinions away from the public before they make their decision on what to see at the cinema that weekend.
 We can’t fault Bone Tomahawk for cramming them in.
So far the S. Craig Zahler’s horror western has amassed fives showings lined up across the US and northern Europe already.
Now we switch to southern Europe for the Sitges International Film Festival, held in the town of Sitges, not far from Barcelona in Spain.
You may not have heard of Sitges or its film festival but it’s certainly heard of you… wait… that can’t be right
The festival has been running since 1967. Therefore this will be the 48th edition, and as such it is thought of as one of the most significant that focuses on the horror and fantasy film genres.
This year the Sitges International Film Festival is running from the 9th to the 18th of October. Bone Tomahawk has been announced as one of many films that will be screened. At the time of posting the schedule has not been published yet though. What has been said is the Bone Tomahawk will be part of the ‘Official Fantàstic Competition’ so an award could be in the offing.
As per usual the full details can be found HERE on the official website.
 The horror western Bone Tomahawk, in which Kathryn has a small role, is due for release in the US on October 23rd. That’s three weeks after it’s première at the Fantastic Fest event on the first of the month.
 As reported last week, on this side of ‘the pond’, the film will be first shown at a BFI event on the 10th.
However, it is looking like the general cinema going audience will have to wait longer than a month to see Kurt Russell (Death Proof), Matthew Fox (Party Of Five), Lili Simmons (Banshee), Patrick Wilson (A Gifted Man), David Arquette (Scream), Sean Young (No Way Out), Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading) etc. battling “cannibalistic cave dwellers”.
According to information I’ve found the likely release date for those of us in the UK is going to be the 11th of December. Surprisingly late.
As an aside, I’ve added a new, even bigger version of the 2nd poster for Bone Tomahawk to the Gallery.
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