Pixar's Hoppers trounces Bride at weekend box office
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.
Word was out for quite some time that The Bride! was doomed, that Gyllenhaal was having an uphill battle during production; this marks her first big-budget movie after her three-time Oscar-nominated Lost Daughter, which cost $5M. Hence the push of the pic’s release date from last fall to this weekend.
With the release of “The Bride!” we asked scholars, film curators and experts in Mary Shelley’s work why so few women have tackled the Frankenstein story — and the impact that has on how we make sense of the 200-year-old tale.
The Bride!, a modern retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein, takes massive swings in terms of performances, plotting and subtext, but not all of its gambles pay off.