Blade Runner Research Paper

Week-in-Review: Weekend Box Office, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones and Gambit Movie

Blade Runner 2049 Retires Kingsman

Box Office Mojo reports that the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic came in first at the last weekend's box office, earning $32.7 million in US cinemas. However, it's doubtful that Blade Runner 2049 will succeed in recuperating its costs. Even when one adds $40 million Blade Runner 2049 earned so far overseas, this barely budged its $150 million production costs. But then again, original Blade Runner also flopped hard before becoming a cult sci-fi film.

In the second place of the weekend box office is The Mountain Between Us. Based on a novel by Charles Martin and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker

Well-received by players, Stranger Things game comes with a neat little reward: those who finish the game get to see a new scene from the show's upcoming second season. For those of us who are far too lazy to actually play the game, redditoricecreamboy201 has posted this clip online.

Back in July rumors surfaced about HBO's plans to make each of these episodes feature-length, which would demand more production time. Not only that, but since all the show's plot lines have finally began converging, film crews can no longer film disparate scenes simultaneously. Finally, there's also the extended post-production process. So even though we most probably won't get to see Westeros until almost two years from now, at least we can rest assured that the finale will truly be