OK. Let’s get this straight:
The main character in Alien Romulus is Rain Carradine. She is not related to the famous Carradine Hollywood family. None of the Carradines – Keith, Robert, Martha Plimpton – appear in the film.
I thought maybe Rain is a member I’ve never heard of!
And yet Caelee Spaeny – who rose to fame last year as Priscilla Presley and as a young photographer in “Civil War” – plays Rain. There are no Presleys in the film either.
Alien Romulus grossed $18 million on Thursday and Friday and is expected to gross $40 million over the weekend. The Carradines should get a cut of the profits!
Elsewhere yesterday: It Ends With Us is starting to show some wear and tear after all the negative publicity over Blake Lively’s smearing of director Justin Baldoni. Still, the film will gross $100 million early next week, which is amazing considering the circumstances. Maybe it was all planned that way!
Romulus was a character from Roman mythology. He killed his brother Remus around 750 BC, which was before TikTok. (It’s a long story.) I guess we’re getting a sequel called “Alien Remus.” Can you imagine if someone had to wake these people up in the afterlife to tell them they were popular again? Romulus immediately called Hollywood super-lawyer Marty Singer to sue Disney/Fox.
