spider man is now buy one get 2 free . matrix is now Zee world love story zombie apocalypse . no more movies for me 🙁

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Spidey has done it again, logging yet another milestone as he swings past $800M global. Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home now has a worldwide total of $813.9 million through Wednesday, pushing it past No Time to Die and making it the No. 3 movie of the year, and the top Hollywood release.

At the international box office, No Way Home pulled $34.8M into its web Wednesday, down just 10% from Tuesday. The overseas cume is now $457.4M, still in sixth place overall for 2021.

The Top 10 markets through Wednesday are the UK ($57.1M), Mexico ($43.9M), France ($28.7M), Korea ($28.6M) Brazil ($26.6M), Australia ($26.3M), India ($23.5M), Russia ($22.2M), Italy ($16.1M) and Germany ($15.5M).

As Peter Parker swings into his second weekend, Warner Bros’ The Matrix Resurrections is expanding widely this frame. After opening in Russia, Japan, Thailand and four smaller markets with $9.1M last session, it debuted in 49 additional markets on Wednesday and generated $6.6M for a running offshore total of $18.9M.

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Nets $27.8M Wednesday In U.S. And Soars Above ‘Sing 2’, ‘Matrix’ & ‘King’s Man’ Openings
The UK led all of Wednesday’s openers with $1.4M, ranking No. 2 and tracking above Dune and Ready Player One. Imax results were strong with 14% of the total share and coming in ahead of No Way Home for the day.

France grossed $1.2M at No. 3 and above Ready Player One, Venom 2 and Blade Runner 2049. Mexico swallowed $514K, performing well versus pandemic comps Tenet (+124%), No Time to Die (+68%), Dune (+65%) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (+45%).

Elsewhere, Spain ($395K) and Brazil ($368K) each ranked No. 2, and Korea was good for $315K at No. 3. In Japan, Resurrections has now grossed $5.3M and continues as the top film there.

In total, Resurrections launches in 68 markets through Friday. Opening today there are 18 markets including Germany, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Yesterday the 2nd Wachowski announced that he/she has transitioned into being a woman, or being transgender, or whatever it is the he/she is now. I’m sure I’ll never understand why people do such things as it just seems incredibly odd to me. Certainly it doesn’t have any effect on me what sex someone wants to be or how they want to dress, but it seems like a reasonable thing to ask wtf is going on in their heads to convince them that it makes sense.

I wonder if it is a genetic thing, especially since two people in the same family made the same choice. Of course, that could just as easily point to there being a common environmental factor in play as well. Obviously much of how men and women dress, wear their hair, etc is purely a cultural construct, but that doesn’t make such behavior look anything but crazy to me.

No wonder Keanu Reeves looks perplexed. He probably can’t follow the plot: BRIAN VINER reviews The Matrix Resurrections

The Matrix Resurrections (15, 148mins)

Verdict: Spectacular but befuddling

The Wachowski brothers behind the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix are now the Wachowski sisters, having both gone through gender reassignment.

Yet it’s not the most striking thing about them. That would be the ground-breaking series of movies they conceived, of which The Matrix Resurrections is the fourth instalment.

Directed by Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski on her own, and co-written with Aleksandar Hemon and the British author David Mitchell, the film is both dazzlingly spectacular and so convoluted as to be largely incomprehensible.

Doctoral theses have been written about subjects less complicated than its plot. No wonder the engagingly wooden Keanu Reeves wears the same mildly perplexed frown for the nearly two and a half hour duration, as if he doesn’t know where he is, or why. I felt much the same.

The first three films in the series were all released within four years, but in the long gap since 2003, computer-generated effects have come on apace.

The Wachowski brothers behind the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix are now the Wachowski sisters, having both gone through gender reassignment

Yet it’s not the most striking thing about them. That would be the ground-breaking series of movies they conceived, of which The Matrix Resurrections is the fourth instalment

Some of them in this movie are genuinely breathtaking, as Neo (Reeves) once again straddles parallel universes, unsure which of them is reality.

As before, he is offered the choice made famous by The Matrix — the blue pill or the red pill — to help him decide.

Since the events of The Matrix Revolutions, he has re-assumed his original identity as Thomas Anderson, and the one-time computer hacker is now working in San Francisco as a brilliant but miserable video-game designer, with a therapist (Neil Patrick Harris) to get him over the pointlessness of his existence.

But then, one day in a coffee shop, cutely called Simulatte, he meets a respectably married mother-of-two called Tiffany (Carrie-Anne Moss), and recognises her, albeit deep in his troubled subconscious, as his former beloved, Trinity.

At its core, once all the bewildering metaphysics are stripped away, this is a rather touching mid-life love story.

But those metaphysics aren’t easily stripped, especially not by Neo, who at times gives the impression that he couldn’t strip paint.

The first three films in the series were all released within four years, but in the long gap since 2003, computer-generated effects have come on apace
As before, he is offered the choice made famous by The Matrix — the blue pill or the red pill — to help him decide

While everyone around him acts their socks off, Reeves keeps his firmly on. And yet, as ever, he somehow gets away with it, projecting a laconic charisma that, as in the John Wick films, keeps us rooting for his character even as he recites his lines, in a steady portentous whisper, like a handsome automaton.

In some ways he’s a throwback to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when acting skills frequently mattered less than looks and muscles.

Like Reeves, Moss is a beautifully-preserved relic of the first film, a thunderous hit which is often said to have redefined both the action and the sci-fi genres, not least with a whole new emphasis on hand-to-hand combat.

There’s plenty more of that this time and a slew of familiar characters, although in several cases the actors have been changed.

The most welcome newcomer is Bugs, a sparky revolutionary splendidly played by British Game Of Thrones actress Jessica Henwick.

She teams up with dissident government agent Morpheus (previously played by Laurence Fishburne, now Yahya Abdul-Mateen) in an attempt to find Neo, whose most dangerous enemy within his alternative reality seems to be his ‘real-life’ boss Smith (formerly Hugo Weaving, now Jonathan Groff).

‘Stories never really end, do they,’ says Smith, just as the worrying realisation begins to ripple around the cinema that Wachowski — who has recently suggested that the Matrix films are a powerful allegory for gender identity — might already have the next sequel in mind.

Still, there are enough visual treats in this film to build anticipation for another, including a properly thrilling climactic scene over the rooftops and through the streets of San Francisco.

And I suppose it’s also possible that some people might be able to follow every minute of the narrative. If you know your ‘ectomorphic particle codex’ from your ‘para-magnetic oscillation’, you’ve got a chance.