Get Out

Jordan Peele’s ‘get Out’ To Bring In Sizable $28 Million On Opening Weekend

... The movie was originally set up at Relativity Media, but left the company during its financial collapse. The animated “Rock Dog” centers on a Tibetan Mastiff who dreams of making it in the music world. It’s a Chinese-American co-production with backing from Huayi Brothers, and carries a $60 million price tag. Fox’s “Hidden Figures,” with a trio of Academy Awards nominations, is the top performer among awards season contenders with $146 million domestically. The historical drama will take in as much as $7 million this weekend. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with com Score, noted that the 2017 domestic box office has totaled $1.576 billion as of Feb. 22. “With a 7% year-to-date deficit versus last year, 2017 needs a serious infusion of cash and audience excitement to get the box office train going in the right direction,” he said. “This weekend ‘Get Out’ could spark the fire that gets the year back on track with the very real chance for another Blumhouse-style expectation-obliterating performance. Look ...

Get Out Attacks The Rainbow

... he receives from Rose’s father, a neurosurgeon named Dean (Bradley Whitford), and her mother, Missy (Catherine Keener), a psychiatrist, could not be more effusive. If anything, it is awkwardly warm, with Dean enfolding Chris in a hug on the porch, addressing him as “my man,” and hastening to claim—as Rose had predicted—that, given the chance, he would have voted for Barack Obama a third time. What we have here, in other words, is the spectacle, at once touching and comical, of good liberals falling over themselves to prove their moral credentials. With pride, Dean shows off the ethnically varied objets that he has gathered on his travels, explaining, “It’s such a privilege to be able to experience another person’s culture.”. The one quirk in this affable setup is the hired help: a groundsman named Walter (Marcus ...

Get Out Is An Instant Classic About The Hilarious Nightmare That Is Existing While Black

... a good idea of where things go from here. When Chris and Rose arrive, her parents’ estate is a mansion-size symbol of white affluence buried deep in the woods, while their zombielike black groundskeeper and maid seem to be possessed by the spirit of Uncle Tom. Peele puts the audience directly into Chris’ shoes as he navigates this new world that is at once utterly strange and all too familiar to him. He’s accustomed to the kind of casual racism tossed off by every white person he meets that weekend, whether it’s from Rose’s family or the prying guests that stop by for the family’s (initially) mysterious annual gathering. (“Is it true? Is it … better?” an older lady asks Rose immediately after fondling Chris’ biceps.) Yet he’s bewildered by the uncanny subservience of the only other black people he encounters. “It’s like they missed the movement,” Chris confides over the phone to his best friend Rod, a TSA agent, when he is able to slip away from the ...

Get Out' Ropes Critics In

... a horror movie whose biggest jolts have nothing to do with blood or bodies, but rather with big ideas. B. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. Begins streaming Feb. 24 on Netflix. EW’s Clark Collis says. Macon Blair’s first film as writer-director  won the Grand Jury Prize at the recent Sundance Film Festival , which is an impressive achievement, although the filmmaker certainly has experience with genre movies featuring ill-equipped heroes. Blair played an inept vigilante in Jeremy Saulnier’s terrific 2014 revenge tale Blue Ruin and appeared in the same director’s even better follow-up Green Room, about a punk band held captive by neo-Nazis. Here, Blair uses essentially the same template to reconfigure the buddy-cop film — at one point, Ruth even flashes a toy police badge — with more deliberately comedic, but similarly enjoyable, results. B+. The Girl With All the ...

Swastikas, 'get Out' Spray-painted On Fence

... at 8:10 p.m. and are continuing to investigate the incident. "At this time, it cannot be determined how long the graffiti has been on the fence but it appears to be have recent," Weidel said. Mayor Israel Spitzer called the spray-painting bigoted and an attack against the community, which was formed in 1961 after Skver grand rabbi Yaakov Yosef Twersky sent a group of followers from Williamsburg in Brooklyn to a 130-acre dairy farm bought in 1954 along Route 45. Twersky led his followers to the United States from Ukraine after the Holocaust and World War II. ACROSS THE STATE: Amid hate-crime spike, NY adds enforcement. "On behalf of the residents of the Village of New Square and in the strongest terms possible, I condemn this hateful act of anti-Semitism against our community," Spitzer said. Spitzer said he is confident that Ramapo police and Rockland Sheriff's Office "will do all they can to try to identify the individual or ...

Get Out Is The Most Appropriate Oscar-weekend Release Ever

... slavery and segregation was just a shame. This year particularly, it’s a time for everyone to pat each other on the backs and congratulate ourselves that the Oscars or the Globes or the SAGs are no longer #So White. And most important, it’s a time to give lots of stage time and verbal compliments to people of color before handing the trophies to white people. This past week, The New Yorker’s Oscar week cover depicted the face of a golden statuette, now rendered in warm pastels with a broad nose and full red lips. Titled “#Oscars Not So White,” it’s meant to reflect a record-breaking year for black nominees. In the past, this sort of effort to look past deeply ingrained industry prejudices tends to only affect the acting categories, where Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis are widely expected to take home trophies this year. But to the Academy’s credit, it recognized excellent, highly deserving nominees of color in its below-the-line ...

He Yelled ‘get Out Of My Country,’ Witnesses Say, And Then Shot 2 Men From India, Killing One

... of attempted first-degree murder. Purinton’s bond was set at $2 million, according to court documents. [ Alabama police officer arrested after Indian grandfather left partially paralyzed ]. It was not immediately clear if Purinton had an attorney. He is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment on Monday afternoon. Court records show that Purinton had faced criminal charges in the past for vehicular episodes, one in 2008 for speeding and another pair of counts in 1999 alleging that he was driving under the influence and made an unsafe turn. The Kansas City Star described Purinton as a Navy veteran, former pilot and air traffic controller who lives in “a comfortable suburban home.”. Bridget Patton, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Kansas, said Friday that the bureau was continuing to work with local police to investigate and “determine if there were any civil rights violations.”. In a statement Friday, Garmin said ...

Suspect In Fatal Kansas Shooting Allegedly Yelled, 'get Out Of My Country

... In a public statement, Garmin said, "We're saddened that two Garmin associates were involved in last night's incident, and we express our condolences to the family and friends of our co-workers involved. Garmin will have grievance counselors on-site and available for its associates today and tomorrow.". Kuchibhotla posted on Linked In in 2014 that he managed helicopter programs. He had a master's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso. He earned his bachelor's degree at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India. A 2014 post on Linked In said Madasani was an aviation program coordinator manager at Garmin. He studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and at Vasavi College of Engineering in India. Two Go Fund Me pages have been set up for the Garmin workers and a third for Grillot. On Wednesday night, Kuchibhotla and Madasani had been at the bar for about 30 minutes or so. Around that same time, Grillot, a sometimes daily regular who either stops for a drink or grabs something to eat, was in the parking lot. "Ian's a really good guy," said Garret Bohnen, who has served him at Austins. "He's ...