{"id":1780,"date":"2013-09-30T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/30\/hugh-jackman-and-jake-gyllenhaal-s-prisoners-off-to-a-strong-start\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:04:50","slug":"hugh-jackman-and-jake-gyllenhaal-s-prisoners-off-to-a-strong-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/hugh-jackman-and-jake-gyllenhaal-s-prisoners-off-to-a-strong-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman And Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019s \u2018Prisoners\u2019 Off To A Strong Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong> The Hugh Jackman-Jake Gyllenhaal kidnapping thriller Prisoners got off to a strong start on Friday, taking in just over $7 million on opening day, more than a third of the way toward what\u2019s been projected to be a $20-million box-office gross for the weekend, according to figures released by Warner Bros.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>Prisoners is facing negligible competition, with the dance contest musical drama Battle of the Year, starring R&amp;B singer Chris Brown, as the only other new movie in general release this weekend. It\u2019s estimated to come in second with about $5 million, collecting $1.5 million on Friday, a Sony Pictures Entertainment spokesman said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><wp-block data-block=\"core\/more\"><\/wp-block>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>Prisoners, which cost $46 million, has scored an enthusiastic 73 out of 100 on the Metacritic.com review aggregate website, based on 43 reviews, with a perfect 100 from five publications including the Los Angeles Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and the New York Observer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong> \u201cLike the kidnapping at the tortured heart of Prisoners, once this chilling thriller about a parent\u2019s worst nightmare grabs you, it refuses to let go,\u201d Betsy Sharkey wrote for The Times. \u201cReality informs Prisoners at every turn. French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski keep the tightly constructed terror twisting by holding it close.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enough Said, Fox Searchlight\u2019s romantic comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini, opened in four theatres and grossed $62,750, a potent per-screen average of $15,688, Fox reported. In its seventh week, Warner Bros.\u2019 comedy We\u2019re the Millers remained strong, adding almost $1.4 million on Friday, pushing its total to nearly $135 million to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hugh Jackman-Jake Gyllenhaal kidnapping thriller Prisoners got off to a strong start on Friday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56],"tags":[69,71,2204,2201,2202,2203,1408,893,2192,66],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-news","tag-a","tag-and","tag-gyllenhaals-prisoners","tag-hugh","tag-jackman","tag-jake","tag-off","tag-start","tag-strong","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}