To each their own. Jeremy Strong raised eyebrows with his commitment to method acting — and not all of his Succession costars have been onboard with the process.
01.02.2023 - 23:31 / deadline.com
Guillaume Canet’s ambitious 64M euros ($70M) production Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom was on track to be the top opener at the French box office on Wednesday, but it remains to be seen whether the film can match the success of its predecessors.
Pathé released the title on 950 screens across France in the biggest theatrical launch of early 2023 for local productions. The mini-major bankrolled the film and is also a producer alongside Alain Attal’s Tresor Films and Yohan Baiada at Les Enfants Terribles.
In first figures for the Paris region, which can be a bellwether for box office performance across the rest of the country, especially for mainstream local productions like Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, the film scored the strongest opening.
By 2 pm local time, the film had drawn 9,091 spectators in 84 theaters, split between 3,274 admissions on 29 screens in the city and 5,817 admissions in outer Paris.
By comparison, Alain Chabat’s seminal 2002 hit Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra scored 8,818 ticket sales on 28 Paris screens alone on its opening day. It went on to clock 14.5M admissions ($74M) at home and 10M ($108M) internationally.
Like Chabat’s earlier hit, Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom has opened on the first Wednesday of February. This is traditionally a popular theatrical launch date for big mainstream local titles in France, with other past hits opening on this slot including Would I Lie To You? 2 (2001) and Dany Boon’s Nothing To Declare (2010).
Opening now also gives the film a two-week window before the arrival of Marvel blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on February 15. In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether Asterix & Obelix can dislodge Avatar: The Way Of Water
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's return with season 4, the cast is opening up about what's in store for the Roy family in the upcoming episodes and what it's like to work on the Emmy-winning HBO drama, particularly when it comes to Jeremy Strong's notorious style of method acting on set. While playing Kendall Roy, the 44-year-old actor tends to isolate himself from the rest of the cast. «It’d be one thing if I was working on or something,» Strong says in defense of himself while speaking to .
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