theaters, 3.1 weeks average run per theater $130,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.6 times production budget)Ģ,852 opening theaters/2,852 max. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two of R.I.P.D.'s finest must miraculously restore the cosmic balance.or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.Ģ.65 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) Once the wise-cracking Roy is assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker as his junior officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork. His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth.
tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. That doesn't mean that it's not worth checking out for yourself when it hits theaters - after all, it's about undead cops fighting evil ghosts - but it's probably best to go in with low expectations and hope to be pleasantly surprised.R.I.P.D follows two cops who are dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. sounds cool in concept, the footage released so far hasn't really shone with any kind of brilliance. One of the potential pitfalls of this approach is ending up with a movie that is too derivative: trying to emulate the appeal of existing successful films and ending up not only falling short of them, but also lacking in originality and uniqueness of its own.ĭespite the fact that R.I.P.D. as being a blend of elements from lots of other movies, including not only Men in Black but also Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice and Lethal Weapon. and Men in Black, and producer Neal Moritz has described R.I.P.D. Plenty of people have made comparisons between R.I.P.D.
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A similar rule was applied in the TV show Dead Like Me, which shares more than a few thematic similarities with R.I.P.D. It's a neat way of getting around the potential issues that could arise from Nick (whose avatar is portrayed by Kung Fu Panda voice actor James Hong) running into people that he knew while he was alive. There's nothing like the potential end of the world to give a movie some structure.Īmong the new clips is a scene where Roy, who appears to the living using the avatar of a beautiful blonde woman ( Marissa Miller), repels the advances of a suit.
Reynolds does, however, mention that Nick and Roy have to prevent some sort of apocalypse.
Roughly half are simply scenes that were shown in the main trailer, and the interviews with the cast don't go much further than them outlining the basics of the plot and who their characters are. There are a few other new clips here, but the featurette itself is a little weak. plays out according to all the usual action movie clichés, it could be revealed some time towards the end of the film that Bobby somehow orchestrated Nick's murder. Nick is assigned to work with a 200 year-old cowboy called Roy Pulsipher ( Jeff Bridges), and the differences between the two lead to an abrasive, banter-filled buddy cop relationship.ĬBM has released an official featurette for R.I.P.D., which gives us a first look at Kevin Bacon in the role of Nick's pre-death partner, Bobby, and his choice of accessories. Ryan Reynolds plays Nick Walker, a veteran cop who finds himself back in rookie shoes when he dies in a shootout and is recruited by the Rest In Peace Department: an afterlife agency that is tasked with rounding up dead spirits trying to worm their way back into the living world.
The Warrens might have to turn their attention to slightly more urgent matters, however, as in the next screen over, ghosts will be trying to take over the world in Robert Schwentke's supernatural action comedy R.I.P.D. The First is James Wan's new horror film The Conjuring, which tells the "true story" of the Perron family haunting and its investigation by paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren. July 2013 will see the release of two very different ghost movies, both of which are coincidentally out on the same day.
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