Cinema Releases 26 April 2019: Avengers: Endgame / Fatigue?

Oh not another superhero film, yes I’m afraid so Avengers: Endgame dominates cinemas everywhere this week. There’s is another new release for those not interested in the Avengers movie with with drama Eighth Grade also arriving in UK cinemas.

So without further ado here are the cinema releases 26 April 2019 for the UK & USA.

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• Last Week’s Cinema Releases

Cinema Releases 26 April 2019

Avengers: Endgame (Action, Adventure)

Released 26th April 2019 UK/USA (12A/PG-13) 181 Mins

• Distributor: Walt Disney
• Starring Robert Downey Jr; Chris Evans; Mark Ruffalo; Chris Hemsworth; Scarlett Johansson;
• Jeremy Renner; Don Cheadle; Paul Rudd; Brie Larson; Karen Gillan; Danai Gurira; Bradley Cooper; Josh Brolin

It’s all been building up to this point. Avengers: Endgame see’s our hero’s in an epic showdown with Thanos, the evil demigod. Will they prevail?

Eighth Grade (Drama)

Released 26th April 2019 UK (15) 94 Mins

• Distributor: Sony Pictures
• Starring Elsie Fisher; Josh Hamilton; Emily Robinson; Jake Ryan;
• Daniel Zolghadri; Fred Hechinger; Imani Lewis; Luke Prael

USA ONLY RELEASES – Expands Wide

Little Woods (Western)

Released 26th April 2019 USA (R) 103 Mins

• Distributor: Neon
• Starring Tessa Thompson; Lily James; Luke Kirby;
• James Badge Dale; Lance Reddick

Final Thought – Cinema Releases 26 April 2019 – & Box Office

It seems every month there’s yet another superhero movie landing at a cinema near you. Can it continue indefinitely? Well the answer is obviously no and in fact Avengers: Endgame may well be the start of the end.

Oh it will make a ton of cash no matter its quality but maybe this film will see several of the actors involved move on and new one’s cast as Hollywood attempts to reboot the various franchises once more.

Then again maybe it will be business as usual; it’s becoming incredibly difficult to predict the movie industry. Are they actually making the superhero movies we all want or have we all become sheep following whatever tosh they produce? Quality and genre fatigue have to matter right?

Whether it’s a superhero or the latest Star Wars film let’s take agenda politics out and put the fun and adventure of great storytelling back in. If a character’s well written trust me nobody cares about the gender, race or sexuality.

That brings me back to Avengers: Endgame I’m yet to see it but I really hope the writers have come up with an entertaining action packed story rather than pushing Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel as being the only superhero that matters as the trailers seem to suggest.

In the end those I could really do with a year without any superhero films and maybe the producers/directors can actually think about entertaining their audiences rather than preaching to them.

Box Office

At the UK box office Shazam! regains top spot from Disney’s Dumbo but there’s not much in it, £979k / £927k.

UK Blu-ray & DVD Charts

Mary Poppins Returns enters at number one in both the UK Blu-ray and DVD charts this week. Tht means Aquaman slips to second spot.

Top 10 Box Office Films (19 April 2019)

What movies/films have we all been watching over the last week, time to find out as we take a look at the Top 10 Box Office Films in both the US and UK.

US Box Office

UK Box Office

UK Blu-ray/DVD Charts 21 April 2019

Blu-ray Charts

DVD Charts