“What we get is a mediocre remake of a mediocre original - not exactly must-see cinema,” writes ReelViews’ James Berardinelli.“We live in an age of unnecessary remakes - but the new Flatliners movie, by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, has the distinction of being perhaps the most unnecessary of them all,” Entertainment Weekly’s Christian Holub writes.“As Andy Kaufman’s Foreign Man would put it, ‘Ees so bad, ees terrible,’” writes NY Magazine’s, David Edelstein. Below are some of the harshest blurbs against Flatliners: There have been seven films in 2017 to have scored a 0% - the Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton comedy The Layover, Daniel Craig-starrer Kings, and Netflix’s Naked. Flatliners is the eight film in recent months to have achieved this distinction. Second-tier airline safety videos are more entertaining than this fourth-rate comedy. The cast and crew members of the movie include many well-known celebrities like Oscar-winner Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Kiersey Clemons, James Norton and Nina Dobrev.The cult is directed - on a relatively hefty budget of $30 million - by Neils Arden Oplev, who directed the original Swedish Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie in 2009. The only thing possibly less pleasant than airport delays and cancellations is watching The Layover. Since then, a single positive review has nudged the score to 3%, but it is enough to make Flatliners one of the worst reviewed films of the year - and certainly the one with the most recognizable faces involved. But more notably, until late Sunday, the film stood at 0% on the review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes. The movie hit at the box-office, the movie makes less than $10 million. She took cross-country road trips to every state except Alaska, and shot interviews with the people who were the most prominent in the drive-in industry.Flatliners, which is the cult in the late 1990s, has opened with a deafening thud over the weekend. During this time, Wright performed research on the history and cultural impact of drive-ins, including economic and sociological effects. This motivated April to begin shooting the documentary, which took seven years to complete. It became the eighth film of 2017 to debut with a 0 score on Rotten Tomatoes. When drive-ins began to close down, Wright became fascinated with the abandoned structures. Flatliners, the sci-fi remake of a 1990 cult film, opened with a deafening thud over the weekend. Growing up outside of Chicago, Wright loved to go to the drive-in with her family in the summer. The production of Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie was a lengthy process for Wright. Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie The film premiered at the 2009 Cinequest Film Festival and also screened at the Reel Women International Film Festival in Los Angeles. ![]() Rotten Tomatoes called it 'a lovely little gem'. ![]() In 2006, April's film career began when she wrote and produced the horror film Killer Yacht Party, which was later distributed by Troma.Īpril's first narrative film, Layover, was the recipient of the Silver Lei Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival. ![]() In addition, April is an independent consultant for clients like Real D, and is involved with programming for the Sundance Film Festival and AFI Fest. Wright eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue film.Ī member since 2011, Wright is currently the Foundation Manager of Women In Film-LA (WIF). Previously, April Wright worked in new media as an HR Business and New Media Consultant for Mattel Toys. While at Northwestern University, Wright served as the Co-President on the board of directors of the Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance, and as Chair of the Advisory Board for Sigma Delta Tau sorority at the University of Southern California. Wright attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University for her MBA, and Bradley University for her Bachelor of Science in Business Computer Systems. The film may have delivered a few chuckles here and. However, their flight is unexpectedly delayed because of a hurricane warning, and while on the plane, they both meet an attractive guy that they end up competing for.
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