Weekend Box Office: Zzzzzz……
September is always a slow month at the movies since it’s one of the “dump” months, when kids are back in school, the summer weather is winding down, it’s not quite time for horror movies and Oscar...
View ArticleMartin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” Still Happening According to Al Pacino
Well just about anything regarding what Martin Scorsese is doing is good news, so this update from Al Pacino is certainly welcome. For those unfamiliar, The Irishman is an adaptation of the true crime...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: “No Good Deed” Finally Shakes Things Up
After many weekends of low box office numbers, an unchanging top 2 and little in the way of new releases anyone wanted to see, there was finally some movement at the box office this weekend. Despite...
View ArticleAdam Wingard and Simon Barrett to Remake “I Saw the Devil”
My immediate reaction to this can best be exemplified by this moment from Community. I am both furious and excited at the same time. I want to vomit in disgust but I also want to pump my fist in...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Teen Lit Wins Again
Despite its omnipresence in movie theaters since the advent of Twilight and The Hunger Games, it’s never really a sure thing to bring a young adult book franchise to the big screen. For every Hunger...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Star Power Still Exists
It seems like so long ago when A-list stars could open a movie all by themselves, all the way back there in the 1990’s. And yet, a couple of those stars still survive and are still able to open movies...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Gone September Box Office Blues
The box office came out of the September doldrums in full force this weekend, with the top two movies powering the weekend to a 23 percent higher weekend than the same period last year, and the highest...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Gone Again
The weekend brought a glut of new releases to the multiplexes and art theaters, but it was David Fincher’s Gone Girl that remained on top for the second weekend in a row, grossing $26.8 million for a...
View ArticleDC Announces Release Date Lineup For the Next Six Years
Maybe it’s just me getting old, but I’m starting to get fatigued by all these superhero films. Nevertheless DC has announced we will have plenty of theirs to watch over the next 6 years and some of it...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Sound and Fury
The October box office continues to chug along swimmingly, with most of the new releases doing very good business and the old releases still holding on strong. After two weeks in the number one slot,...
View ArticleJames Wan Returning to Direct “The Conjuring 2″
James Wan is getting busy. He’s got the next installment of the Fast & Furious franchise in Fast & Furious 7 coming out next year, and although he had previously talked about “graduating” from...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Yeah, The Board Game Movie Won
Who would have thought that Hasbro would be one of the top players in the mainstream blockbuster movie game? As of 2014, only one of their movies has been a flop (Battleship), and this weekend’s movie...
View ArticleMichael Bay Setting Up Benghazi Movie “13 Hours”
My name is Dylan Moses Griffin, and I am a fan of Michael Bay. I’m not even saying that in some sort of ironic sense, the guy’s films entertain the hell out of me. Yeah, I know 2/4 of his Transformers...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: The Calm Before The Storm
A Friday Halloween usually means a pretty slow weekend at the box office, what with everyone out in costume trick or treating and getting drunk. It’s also a weird weekend in that horror movies that...
View Article“Toy Story 4″ Is Coming Because Nothing Is Sacred
It feels like it might be too easy and knee-jerk reactionary to trash on this bit of news, but come, how can I not? Sometimes the low-hanging fruit is the tastiest. It’s like the greedy and dark side...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Interstellar Heroes and Not Much Else
After the super-slow Halloween weekend, the November box office began in full force, with two hotly anticipated movies making all of the money and the rest of the movies in release not making much at...
View ArticleYou Can Relax, Universal Expects At Least 3 More “Fast & Furious” Films
Usually when a studio announces three more films of something, and especially when that means stretching a franchise to ten films, that’s usually bad news. This isn’t though. This is great news. Why?...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Dumb Winz
This mid-November weekend was crammed with new releases on both the wide and indie circuits, and there was stiff competition from last weekend’s releases, but the weekend was won by a sequel to a...
View ArticleChanning Tatum Won’t Stop, Plans to Co-Direct “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”
Channing Tatum is a fire you can’t put out, and you don’t want to either. He’s so hot right now. It’s weird to think that a few years ago I had no regard for the Chan-man, and here we are in 2014 and...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Exactly What You Expected
Given that the previous two installments in the series racked up $840 million in the U.S. alone, each with $150 million opening weekends, and that there’s plenty of Thanksgiving movies coming down the...
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