In the face of a monolith Marvel Studios movie this weekend, NEON‘s summer shocker at the B.O., Longlegs, will become the studio’s highest grossing movie ever in its history, surpassing its Best Picture and multi-Oscar winner Parasite ($53.3M). This is all going down today. The Oz Perkins directed and written movie starring Maika Monroe, grossed
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“Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come.” That’s what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster movies like The Hindenburg and