STX And EuropaCorp Are Coming Together Like a Movie Studio Version Of Voltron

2016 was not kind to EuropaCorp RED, the U.S. distribution arm of movie studio EuropaCorp. Though the studio had seen plenty of hits in the past by way of the Taken movies and Lucy, well, their forays into U.S. self-distribution had been an outright disaster. An attempt to reboot the Transporter movie in September 2015 got the studio off to a disastrous start and it'd be 11 whole months before they had another release, Nine Lives, which became a critical punching bag and a big box office dud. At least that Barry Sonnenfeld comedy grossed over $10 million, something that can't be said for their other two 2016 releases, Shut In and the underrated Miss Sloane.

Hardcore Henry Review

If you've even had only the briefest exposure to the advertising campaign of Hardcore Henry, you likely are all too aware that the films big claim-to-fame is that it was shot in a first-person style of filming, putting the viewer at the center of the story of Henry, a man whose awoken with no memory but has been given various technological enhancements in his body that make him an unstoppable killing machine. Those upgrades are a positive, but less uplifting is that a very bad man by the name of Akan (Danila Kozlovsky) has kidnapped Henry's wife, Estelle (Haley Bennett).

The Gift Review

You may have only noticed it in passing, if it all, but Warrior is one of the most underrated motion pictures of the decade so far, no joke. It's the film that truly put Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy on the map for me, as well as giving the world as commanding performance from Nick Nolte. In the years since, the two leads of the film have gone on different paths, with Hardy being a Batman villain and the new Mad Max while Edgerton hasn't struggled per se, he just hasn't had a breakout leading man performance in the four years since Warrior.