John Wick (2014) and It Follows (2014)
Film Stories with Simon Brew
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The Rise and Fall of John Wick
John Wick sparked 14.4 million dollars worth of business on its opening weekend which was enough to put it in second place above films like Fury and Gone Girl the Book of Life uh Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day. John Wick's American gross was 43 million it's outside of America he'd added another 42 million and that was pretty comfortable I mean no one was expecting it to set the box office absolutely alight but this had opened up not just a franchise but a fresh career strand really for the people involved. Derek Colestad has penned the follow-ups to John Wick as well and also the relatively recent movie Nobody which I'll come to in a future
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