Rope (film) Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (film) Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray release on December 18, 2018. As of December 16, 2018, "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" has grossed $68.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $62 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $130.5 million, against a production budget of $42 million. In the United States and Canada, "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" was released alongside "Assassination Nation", "Life Itself" and "Fahrenheit 11/9", and was projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,592 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $7.8 million on its first