EXCLUSIVE: Apple World War II Drama Greyhound, starring and written by Tom Hanks, has become the largest opening weekend launch for Apple TV +, including series that have leaned on the service, sources close to Apple Deadline report. The streamer hates giving exact numbers, but I was told that the film became a visual audience befitting a huge summer theatrical box office hit, which of course Greyhound It was meant to be until he moved from Sony to Apple due to movie theater uncertainty after COVID-19.
Beyond generating the largest opening weekend for Apple TV +, 30% of its viewers were new to the service. The film was released last Friday.
Apple did not comment on which movie or television series Aaron Schneider directed. Greyhound overshadowed Candidates among the original 26 to be released in 100 countries in the eight months after Apple TV + launched would include the limited series Jennifer Aniston-Reese Witherspoon The morning show, Anthony Mackie, directed by George Nolfi, and Samuel L. Jackson, protagonist The bankerand the limited series Defending Jacob starring Chris Evans, the latter is said to have broken records in May.
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This will give Hanks something to brag about tonight when he shows up. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Hanks’ Playtone partner Gary Goetzman produced the film.
The record probably won’t last, as Apple Worldwide Video bosses Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht have been in tears, reeling from Martin Scorsese-led protagonist Leonardo DiCaprio-Robert De Niro Flower Moon Assassins, Antoine Fuqua-Will Smith’s runaway slave thriller Emancipationand closing the big business last week Snow Blind, the adaptation of the graphic novel directed by Gustav Moller to the star Jake Gyllenhaal. There’s another one from Playtone’s Hanks and Goetzman, which with Steven Spielberg are back with another limited series from World War II. Masters of the air. That begins production next March.
In GreyhoundHanks plays a veteran Navy veteran and captain for the first time who is tasked with protecting a convoy of 37 ships that transport thousands of soldiers and supplies through the treacherous waters of the Atlantic during World War II. For five days without air cover, the captain and his small force of three escort ships must fight their way through an area of the ocean known as “the Black Well,” battling Nazi submarines. Greyhound It is inspired by events during the Battle of the Atlantic, which took place in the first months of the United States’ alliance with Great Britain and the Allied Forces. Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan and Elisabeth Shue star alongside Hanks.
Pic is a Playtone production by Sony Pictures Entertainment / Stage 6 Films, in association with Bron Creative, Zhengfu Pictures, Sycamore Pictures and FilmNation Entertainment.
