Synopsis
Mary Shelley is story of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin—author of one of the world’s most famous Gothic novels ‘Frankenstein’—and her fiery, tempestuous relationship with renowned romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The pair are two outsiders constrained by polite society but bound together by a natural chemistry and progressive ideas that are beyond the boundaries of their age and time. Mary and Percy declare their love for each other and much to her family’s horror they run away together, joined by Mary’s half-sister Claire. In the midst of growing tension within their relationship during their stay at Lord Byron's house at Lake Geneva, the idea of Frankenstein is conceived when a challenge is put to all house-guests to write a ghost story. An incredible character is created, which will loom large in popular culture for centuries to come, but society at the time puts little value in female authors. At the tender age of 18, Mary is forced to challenge these preconceptions, to protect her work and to forge her own identity.
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Movie Details
Italy Releases: |
August 29th, 2018 (Wide), released as Mary Shelley - Un amore immortale |
Video Release: |
August 28th, 2018 by Shout Factory |
MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 for sexuality and thematic elements including substance abuse. (Rating bulletin 2520 (Cert #51532), 3/28/2018) |
Running Time: |
121 minutes |
Keywords: |
Writing and Writers, Romance, Poet, First Love, 1700s, Set in London, Coming of Age, Early / Simultaneous Video-on-Demand release, Historical Drama |
Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Dramatization |
Production/Financing Companies: |
Parallel Films, HanWay Films, BFI, Bord Scannan na hEireann, Irish Film Board, Film Fund Luxembourg, Head Gear Films, Juliette Inc., Ralfish Films, Gidden Media |
Production Countries: |
Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States |
Languages: |
English |
August 29th, 2018
It is a very busy week with a flood of TV on DVD releases. Because of that, each entry has to be a little shorter than usual, especially the TV on DVD releases. There are some titles that are worth more attention, like American Animals, Bound, RBG, and others. It was a close race for Pick of the Week, but in the end I went with Bound on Blu-ray.
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May 30th, 2018
2001: A Space Odyssey remained in first place on the theater average chart with $24,810 in four theaters. The number one film, Solo: A Star Wars Movie, was next with an average of $19,270. The Gospel According to Andre earned an average of $11,951 in four theaters. First Reformed remained in the $10,000 club with an average of $10,064 in 29 theaters during its second weekend of release.
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May 25th, 2018
It is a slow week, both in terms of total releases and in terms of quality releases. The Gospel According to Andre and Summer 1993 are both earning great reviews, but will likely be relegated to the art house circuit. The film with the best chance of box office success is Who We Are Now, but even then it has an uphill battle.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
2018/08/31 |
8 |
$200,969 |
|
0 |
|
$228,373 |
1 |
2018/09/07 |
16 |
$34,833 |
-83% |
0 |
|
$356,261 |
2 |
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