There’s a new number one at the box office!
09.03.2021 - 00:39 / nme.com
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has reflected on his time working on Saturday Night Live, saying he was “such a prick back then”.In the early 1990s, Odenkirk was a writer on the show, and made an occasional cameo.Watching back one of his SNL cameos in 1991 on PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing show, Odenkirk said he has regrets from his time on the show.“I was so opinionated. I was a very opinionated comedy writer,” he said.
There’s a new number one at the box office!
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterBob Odenkirk, action star?It’s a premise so unexpected, so curious, that it just might have enticed audiences to watch “Nobody,” a revenge thriller that sees an otherwise unassuming Odenkirk kick ass and take names. “Nobody” debuted atop domestic box office charts, generating $6.7 million from 2,460 venues.
Refresh for top 10 chart and more analysis: Universal’s action genre defying feature Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk took the top box office spot with $6.7M in a theatrical marketplace which is in the throes of trying to come back.
The new movie Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, is on track to being the number one movie of the weekend!
There’s a great axiom when it comes to success in Hollywood; a saying which remains true through good times and bad, even at a moment when streaming is stepping on theatrical’s feet, and that is “Talent rules.”
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorBob Odenkirk had plenty of time to prep for his latest role — two years to be precise. During the week he would film “Better Call Saul,” and on weekends he would fly to meet up with a stuntman for his role in Universal action thriller “Nobody,” which opens March 26 in theaters.The 58-year-old actor plays Hutch, a seemingly milquetoast suburban husband who, trying to keep his family safe, doesn’t fight back when thieves break into his home one night.
Presented with a premise that seems ripped from the “John Wick” playbook combined with a leading man that is best known for playing lovable, comedic schlubs, it would take a madman to think those ingredients could combine into a brutal, R-rated action film.
EXCLUSIVE: David Leitch and Kelly McCormick and their 87North production label tomorrow launch their latest high octane action film. The Ilya Naishuler-directed thriller Nobody is the attempt by Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk to make the action hero done by actors from Liam Neeson to Keanu Reeves.
If you co-directed the first “John Wick” movie and then departed that franchise to helm actioners like “Deadpool 2” and “Atomic Blonde,” but still wanted a toe-hold in the “John Wick” universe, Universal’s new action movie “Nobody” seems like the perfect fit.
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has recalled an incident in which his family home was broken into.Discussing his new film Nobody in which he plays Derek, a man who also experiences a home break-in, the actor said he “grabbed a baseball bat”.“My family has had a home break-in,” Odenkirk told Fox News.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterBob Odenkirk exudes everyman energy. At a glance, the actor — best known as the morally malleable criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill (who later becomes Saul Goodman) on “Breaking Bad” and later “Better Call Saul” — is more suburban dad than Rambo.
Lurking in the heart of all family men is this: A restlessness that gnaws at the thin veneer of civility they've hidden themselves in. That seems to be one of the lessons of the dopey film “Nobody.” It says that what all regular Joes really want to is to blow away multiple bad guys with a Walther PPK as music swells.Bob Odenkirk makes a disastrous turn as an assassin-turned-nice-guy-turned-assassin-again in a role that's all macho wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has said he wants “to be surprised” by the show’s ending.The actor, who plays Jimmy McGill (who later became Saul Goodman) in the Breaking Bad spin-off series, revealed he hasn’t read the final scripts yet and would like to be “surprised”.Asked by AV Club whether he knows what’s going to happen beyond the scripts he’s currently shooting, Odenkirk said “I don’t know. I haven’t read it.”He continued: “I could read it.
Surprise player Bob Odenkirk enters the middle-aged action hero game in Nobody, Ilya Naishuller's John Wick-y take on the protect-my-family picture. Taking itself much less seriously than the Taken series and its predecessors, it's a wish-fulfillment romp just as ludicrous as any of them but more fun than most.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAfter a brutal year of pandemic-related movie theater closures, a reprieve is coming for film lovers in Texas. Alamo Drafthouse, the cinema chain known for in-theater dining, is opening a new location in east El Paso.The venue will be open and operational for staff training on March 26 before officially welcoming customers on March 31.
Watch Video: 'Nobody' Teaser: Bob Odenkirk Is a Suburban Dad Who Breaks Bad - Very BadOdenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell, whose thuddingly repetitive routine (captured brilliantly by editors Evan Schiff and William Yeh) involves making coffee in the morning, rolling the trash can to the curb just late enough to miss pick-up, taking the bus to his job as an accountant at a metal works owned by his father-in-law (Michael Ironside), coming home and sleeping with a wall of pillows separating him and
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