Kathryn Morris UK

The Perfect Guy UK Box Office

As of yesterday (22nd November) The Perfect Guy had racked up just a whisker short of $57m in total takings world wide. Only about 4% of that was from non-US countries.

The thriller film was number one in its opening weekend, which started on Friday the 11th of September.

Last Friday (20th November) The Perfect Guy opened in the UK. Unlike the first weekend in US it was up against some very strong competition. The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is still going strong after four weeks and the final instalment in The Hunger Games quadrilogy, Mockingjay Part 2, premièred. That’s some tough competition.

Couple that with a no doubt different demographic, less publicity, and stars not so recognisable to a UK audience and it is understandable why The Perfect Guy took around £100,000 (approx $150,000). Perhaps it’ll be a slow burn.

Advent-your-ous Thinking

advent_calendar_430x180 As seems to be the usual way of things Xmas is rapidly approaching and I’ve been caught napping (sometimes literally ).

One of KM UK’s traditions for the upcoming season is a sort of Advent calendar. It exists as an extra album in the KM UK Photo Gallery. Each day of the month (if I remember!) an image is revealed.

I could just pick random images of Kathryn but I like to have a theme to work to each year. In the past I’ve gone with different hair style Kathryn’s sported, on set photos, motherhood, and smiles.

Do you have an idea for a theme for KM UK’s Advent Calendar for 2015?

The idea needs to one that can be illustrated with 25 images of Kathryn that can be found in the KM UK Gallery. Leave your thoughts in the comments below or contact me using the Contact Form.

The Perfect English Gentleman Is Nearly Here

It was released in the US back in September.

The past few weeks have seen it première in various countries across Europe.

Finally, and we do appear to be amongst the last, the good burghers of the United Kingdom and Ireland get a look in.

Thriller The Perfect Guy is set to be released in cinemas across the two islands this coming Friday (20th Nov).

The most recent global box office figures since the initial launch in America show the film has taken nearly $60m so far. Half of that was in the first week. On a budget said to be around $12m that’s a very respectable result. Fives times the production cost should certainly put the project in to a nice profit. Congrats to all involved.

To mark the release of the Sanaa Lathan (Boss), Michael Ealy (The Good Wife, on the left in the poster above), Morris Chestnut (Rosewood, right), and Kathryn Morris-starring film the Guardian newspaper here in Britain has today posted a little quiz about similar thrillers. As most of these type of ‘ex-partner goes psycho’ films is the other way around gender-wise they are testing to see how quickly you can spot a ‘bunny boiler’. Take the quiz here. How many can you get?

Bone Tomahawk @ Abertoir Tomorrow

There is too much of the wrong sort of horror in the world.

The films at events like the Abertoir Film Festival in the mid-Wales coastal town of Aberystwyth are the right sort.

The screening of Bone Tomahawk starts at 9:30pm at the Arts Centre venue.

Tickets are in limited supply so if you don’t have a pass already you might be out of luck. The official website has details.

All Roads Leeds To Bone Tomahawk Tomorrow

The 29th Leeds International Film Festival has been running for a week now.

And it has one week left to go.

It’s a long one.

Bone Tomahawk will feature v. late tomorrow night (actually 1am v. early on Saturday morning) in a marathon within a marathon.

The festival is two weeks long (5th-19th Nov) and features hundreds of films. Getting the middle weekend started is an event called ‘Fanomenon Night Of The Dead XV’. The comparatively mild 9pm Friday night kick-off belies the serious nature of this endeavour: four feature films and a couple of collections of shorts. 10 hours later, at 7am, the last film is due to end.

Tickets, available via the official website, cover the whole thing and not individual films within the set.