Jeremy Renner needs your help. The Bourne Legacy and Avengers star lost his French Bulldog, Hemi, on July 19 when a power outage caused his home’s front gate to slide open. In response, the actor has launched a Facebook campaign for information leading to the pooch’s return and he’s offering $5,000 as a reward for the canine, no questions asked. “5,000 Reward, Lost Dog,” says a missing sign posted on the HemiMissingFrenchie Facebook page , which was created five days after the canine vanished. The 25-pound pet was last seen wearing a collar and is in need of medication for a hip condition. Last year, Renner’s dog Franklin died of a heart attack at a Little League Baseball game, so come on, Los Angeles residents! Band together and help the star track down his furry friend. If you have information about Hemi’s whereabouts, call (310) 954-9126.
Jeremy Renner welcomed his first child into the world today. The star of The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy had a baby girl, though he’s keeping everything very under wraps to protect his privacy. Aw man! Why would he do that? The baby, whose name is unknown, was conceived with his ex-girlfriend, whose identity is also unknown. The two apparently used to date, but it wasn’t serious. All this secrecy surrounding his first child and how she came to be may not help the Jeremy Renner gay rumors , but for now let’s just congratulate the new dad and leave it at that.
Woe is the poor, lonely Henry Cavill actioner Cold Light of Day , which opened in wide release and climbed its way to the bottom (well okay, #13) with a paltry $1.8 million take. As in, TOTAL. Not screening a film and giving it virtually no promotion will do that, even with the future Superman holding a gun and Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver posing like the T-800 on the poster. But it was also a terrible movie-going weekend all-around, with the bleakest numbers in recent memory spreading across all comers. Hit it for the Debbie Downer of Weekend Receipts and let’s all look to Finding Nemo and Milla Jovovich’s leather pants next week for salvation. 1. The Possession Gross: $9,500,000 (Cume: $33,349,000) Screens: 2,834 (PSA: $3,352) Weeks: 2 (Change: -46.4%) Lionsgate’s supernatural horror-thriller held the top spot with just $9.5 million in receipts – yikes. Expect the Jeffrey Dean Morgan – dybbuk picture to drop next week when real competition from genre sequel Resident Evil: Retribution muscles its way into the box office. 2. Lawless Gross: $6,002,000 (Cume: $23,520,000) Screens: 3,138 (PSA: $1,913) Week 2 How refreshing to see a movie for grownups zooming up the charts! Even with a less-than-stellar $1,913 per-screen take, the violent, sweater-filled Shia LaBeouf-Tom Hardy period drama is still director John Hillcoat’s biggest opener to date, behind 2009’s The Road ($8.1M gross) and 2006’s The Proposition ($1.9M gross). 3. The Words Gross: $5,000,000 Screens: 2,801 (PSA: $1,785) Week: 1 Despite a concerted marketing push, CBS Films notched a dud with this Bradley Cooper drama about a writer and a book and his lady and something something something … which goes to show that if your target audience doesn’t quite get what your film is about, they won’t show up in droves to see it. The Words was acquired at Sundance for $2 million, so at least it’s not a huge wash, but don’t expect this one to break out in the coming weeks. 4. The Expendables 2 Gross: $4,750,000 (Cume: $75,417,000) Screens: 3,260 (PSA: $1,457) Week: 4 (Change: -47.4%) Sly Stallone & Co’s old dudes kicking ass sequel made a splash this summer but suffered a -47.4% drop off. Could it be the testosterone-seeking set stayed home to watch beefy men hit each other on the football field instead? 5. The Bourne Legacy Gross: $4,000,000 (Cume: $103,700,000) Screens: 2,766 (PSA: $1,446) Weeks: 5 (Change: -44.7%) At least the terrible weekend put Bourne Legacy into the $100 mil club. (Worldwide take to date: $165 million.) Just a few weekends more and Universal should make back its costs + P&A! 6. ParaNorman Gross: $3,830,000 (Cume: $45,098,000) Screens: 2,856 (PSA: $1,341) Weeks: 4 (Change: -41.7%) The technically amazing (but pretty damn dark ) stop motion/CG kids tale earned some of the highest critical praise of late, matching The Dark Knight Rises with an 87 percent Tomatometer ranking. Fingers crossed more kids and parents seek it out next week as the much fluffier Finding Nemo 3-D re-release barrels into theaters. 7. The Odd Life of Timothy Green Gross: $3,650,000 (Cume: $43,007,000) Screens: 2,717 (PSA: $1,343) Weeks: 4 (Change: -41.8%) The tree-child-made-of-wishes picture suffered its biggest decline in week 4, on par with most of the weekend’s contenders. Was this odd fantasy not what children everywhere were jonesing for as they began their intrepid march back into the classroom? Did parents the nation ’round not clamor to see a weird-ass movie about infertility and magical babies as they re-acclimated to the grinding realities of sending their young back to school?? 8. The Campaign Gross: $3,530,000 (Cume $79,473,000) Screens: 2,542 (PSA: $1,389) Weeks: 5 (Change: -38.2%) Well, we had more interesting ( and comical ) political entertainment to watch on TV last week. 9. The Dark Knight Rises Gross: $3,285,000 (Cume: $437,849,000) Screens: 1,987 (PSA: $1,653) Weeks: 8 (Change: -46.3%) I love it when huge blockbusters with record-breaking box office tallies still sneak their way into the Top 10 with tiny returns. Are these repeat viewings or first-time TDKR -watchers? Who waits two months to see The Dark Knight Rises ?? So many questions. 10. 2016 Obama’s America Gross: $3,281,000 (Cume: $26,088,000) Screens: 2,017 (PSA: $1,627) Weeks: 9 (Change: -41.5%) Despite a significant -41.5% drop-off from last week (when it ranked #9), the polarizing partisan doc has reached its widest release, hitting 2,017 theaters nationwide. It’s now the longest in-theater release in the Top 10, with a $26 million cume to date. — 13. The Cold Light of Day Gross: $1,800,000 Screens: 1,511 (PSA: $1,191) Weeks: 1 WOW. Despite starring Bruce Willis, Henry Cavill, and Sigourney Weaver, poor little Cold Light of Day – the first wide release of its kind to not be screened for critics in a while – opened in wide release outside of the Top 10. The cold shoulder from Summit Entertainment helped the thriller on its way to an early theatrical grave. [Source: Box Office Mojo ]
‘Bourne Legacy’ also holds on to its spot at #2, due to feeble newcomers ‘Premium Rush,’ ‘Hit and Run’ and ‘The Apparition.’ By Ryan J. Downey Sylvester Stallone in “The Expendables 2” Photo: Lionsgate
The Expendables 2 blasted its way to the top of the box office this weekend, but Robert Pattinson also had a few thousand reasons to smile. While the Sylvester Stallone-penned action flick earned nearly $30 million and easily out-garnered The Bourne Legacy for the number-one ranking, Pattinson’s Cosmopolis – his first movie since news of the Kristen Stewart affair broke – grossed $72,000 at just three theaters. That gave Cosmopolis the weekend’s biggest per-screen average. So take that, D.B. Sweeney ! Sparkle – which featured Whitney Houston in her final big screen performance – landed in fifth place. But it sported the Top 10’s best per-theater average after The Expendables 2 . Here is a look at that top 10 from Friday and Saturday: The Expendables 2 , $28.8 million The Bourne Legacy , $17 million ParaNorman , $14 million The Campaign , $13.4 million Sparkle , $12 million The Dark Knight Rises , $11.1 million The Odd Life of Timothy Green , $10.9 million Hope Springs , $9.1 million Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days , $3.9 million Total Recall , $3.5 million
The Bourne Legacy and The Campaign opened over the weekend with enough gusto to topple The Dark Knight Rises from its box office throne, though the final installment in the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman trilogy still held solid in the third spot in the overall box office rankings. Hope Springs gained momentum after its mid-week bow, while Total Recall lands soft in its second frame. 1. The Bourne Legacy Gross: $40,265,491 Screens: 3,745 (PSA: $10,752) Week: 1 The latest Bourne easily snatched the top spot in the overall box office in its debut, ending the long reign of The Dark Knight Rises . But compared to its most immediate predecessor, the latest installment came in a bit thinner. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) landed at just per $69.28 million in its opening weekend in 3,660 theaters, averaging $18,929. The pic went on to gross over $227.47 million in the domestic box office. Legacy also opened in 13 small territories, grossing $7.8 million, bringing its worldwide total to $48.1 million. 2. The Campaign Gross: $27.44 million Screens: 3,205 (PSA: $8,562) Week : 1 The comedy touched the funny bone for audiences, grabbing the second spot in the box office. It is the biggest weekend opener for Will Ferrell since 2010 comedy The Other Guys , which came in at over $35.5 million in 3,651 theaters. 3. The Dark Knight Rises Gross: $19.54 million (Cume: $390,149,000) Screens: 3,690 (PSA: $5,295) Week: 4 (Change: – 45%) The Christopher Nolan-directed Batman finale held the top spot for three weeks in the domestic box office, but has likely crested Stateside. The blockbuster dropped 552 theaters from the previous week and its screen average came in at $5,295 vs the previous weekend’s $8,590. Its worldwide cume is now well over $835.4 million. 4. Hope Springs Gross: $15.6 million (Cume: $20,053,000 – Opened Wednesday) Screens: 2,361 (PSA: $6,607) Week: 1 The Meryl Streep-starrer opened quietly mid-week, but received a flurry of audience attention as the weekend hit. Streep’s Julie & Julia , for comparison sake, debuted on 2,354 theaters in 2009, grossing just north of $20 million, averaging $8,508. 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Gross: $8,200,000 (Cume: $30,554,008) Screens: 3,401 (PSA: $2,411) Week: 2 (Change: – 44%) The comedy added just 10 locations in its second weekend. Its worldwide gross is now over $36.55 million. 6. Total Recall Gross: $8.1 million (Cume: $44.188 million) Screens: 3,601 (PSA: $2,249) Week: 2 (Change: – 68%) The Total Recall reboot stayed in the same number of theaters and in its second round, the title appears to be sputtering with a 68% decline in gross compared to its tepid opening weekend of $26 million. Overseas, the pic has grossed an additional $27.5 million.
‘It lifts the curtain on the first three films,’ Rachel Weisz tells MTV News. By Kara Warner Jeremy Renner in the “Bourne Legacy” Photo: Universal Pictures
The Bourne Legacy is a passable movie that has the peculiar misfortune of being part of a very successful, influential and distinctive franchise. Box office-wise, this is probably not going to be much of a hardship, but in terms of content and style it definitely suffers in comparison. The Bourne predecessors, particularly the two directed by Paul Greengrass, are by my count some of the most exhilarating action movies in recent cinematic history. The Bourne Legacy is not. Still, it has two very good leads in Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz and a few tense, rangy sequences in a half-restored house in the Maryland woods and in the sterile confines of a high-security lab. Tony Gilroy , who worked on the screenplays for the past three films in the series, gets a bump up to director in this installment (he also shares a writing credit), but, that jowly opening fight in Duplicity aside, he’s no great facilitator of action scenes. Gilroy also has to reverse engineer this ungainly “sidequel” to fit around the existing mythology of the previous trilogy without overlapping it too much — Jason Bourne ( Matt Damon ) himself is mentioned many times while never appearing, but his actions are what spur the events in this film, which takes place in approximately the same time frame as The Bourne Ultimatum . The result is a convoluted back-end story that’s grouted around what’s happened before, but is essentially the tale of a brutal clean- and cover-up. Bourne looked for clues to his identity and his reason for being; Cross (Renner), the hero of The Bourne Legacy , is just trying to stay whole. It’s a process that’s more complicated than straightforward survival for him. Cross is an agent of Outcome, which, like Blackbriar, is a successor program to Bourne’s black ops Treadstone operation. The twist for Outcome participants is that they’ve had their physical and mental abilities enhanced by a carefully managed regimen of space age pills adjusted for their specific chemistry — “chems” are what Cross calls them, and the frequency of his insistent demands for them could be the basis a decent drinking game (it turns out he’s got a good reason for not wanting to degrade back to his standard self). Out of fear it’ll be discovered in the Blackbriar/Jason Bourne fallout, Outcome is shut down and everyone involved, agents and scientists alike, are killed. Cross happens to escape the burn down, and goes in search of the sole surviving doctor from the lab, Marta Shearing (Weisz). She’s been made a target herself, and before you know it the two are off and running to a facility in the Philippines where they hope to stabilize Cross’ condition while the National Research Assay Group, led by Eric Byer (Edward Norton), use all the technology and operatives at their disposal to track them down. Renner’s Aaron Cross is no Jason Bourne, in welcome ways. Where Bourne was half traumatized boy scout, half instinctual killing machine, Cross’ eyes are wide open — he’s had no mental break, no soul-deep shock from which to recover, no dark past to rediscover. He’s also matter-of-fact and funny, with traces of the worldly swagger Renner showed as his disturbingly fearless bomb disposal expert in The Hurt Locker ; in the midst of the on-the-go running that makes up most of the film, he manages to get a laugh out of the outrage he displays when Marta reveals she doesn’t know his name. Weisz plays her character as a dorkily committed, slightly scattered professional who’s always focused on the results of rather than the reasons behind her work, and who’s only slowly realizing the seriousness of what she’s been involved in. There’s not much time for nookie in The Bourne Legacy ‘s multinational pursuit, but the pair have the crackle of legitimate chemistry, enough to make you want more scenes of them together and less of them in visually garbled clashes and chases. The Bourne Legacy mimics the nigh revelatory look of the second and third Bourne movies without sharing their stomach-dropping sense of space and awareness of the physicality of their characters (the cinematographer is Oliver Wood, who also shot The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy ). The brief fight scenes seem edited together punch by punch, while a race across Manila rooftops recalls the Tangier sequence in Ultimatum without its clammy-palmed tautness — it looks more like your now-standard blockbuster parkour display. The aspects of The Bourne Legacy that work, chief among them Renner and Weisz, feel like they should somehow be salvaged and put into their own potentially more standard action movie. As is, the film feels hampered by its own franchise, by the shoehorned-in scenes in which David Strathairn, Joan Allen, Albert Finney and others continue their covert agency cold wars that are now once removed from what’s happened to our current protagonist, and by the awkward extended intro in which Cross has been sent on a kind of probationary exercise into the wilds of Alaska during which he literally wrestles a wolf. And as the latest bureaucrat-cum-villain, Norton has distressingly little to do but bark orders at techs operating computers, the lone flashback to a past interaction with Cross giving no great sense of tie between the two, or weight to the high-tech cat-and-mouse game. Like much of the movie, Norton’s presence has a patient, diligent quality to it, as if what’s on screen is just a slog to get through before some promised fun in the next installment. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
‘It’s as paranoid as the movie is,’ Rachel Weisz tells MTV News of the measures taken to keep the high-profile script under wraps. By Kara Warner Jeremy Renner in “The Bourne Legacy” Photo: Universal Pictures
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