As if the slate of spook movies we’ve been seeing for the past few weeks hadn’t tipped you off, we are thoroughly entrenched in the Halloween moviegoing season, and what better way to celebrate than with the return of an old favorite, Halloween! Yes, the reboot of this classic horror franchise was announced last year, with […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Oct 5-Oct 7): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Weekend Actuals Venom / $35,700,000 / -55.5% / Weekend 2 / Sony (Columbia) A Star is Born / $28,000,000 / -34.7% / Weekend 2 / Warner Bros. First Man / $16,500,000 / […]
Intriguingly enough, the new releases this weekend are taking a bit of a backseat to the holdovers from last weekend, specifically, Venom and A Star is Born. These two were last weekend’s heavyweights and this weekend seems to be their chance to prove that the buzz surrounding the two films was not just empty noise. Of the two, Venom has […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Oct 5-Oct 7): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Weekend Actuals Venom / $80,255,756 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Sony (Columbia) A Star is Born / $23,020,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Warner Bros. Smallfoot / $14,402,559 / -37.5% […]
Thursday Night Preview Update: As predicted, Venom is exploding out of the gate with $10 million in Thursday night preview grosses. This a recorded breaking achievement, being the largest October preview gross of all time, besting Paranormal Activity 3 which gross $8 million on its Thursday night. I knew the sheer strength of fan anticipation would translate to a […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Sept 28-Sept 30): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates Night School / $28,000,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Universal Smallfoot / $23,020,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Warner Bros. The House with a Clock in its Walls […]
As September comes to a close and Oscar hopefuls begin to rev their engines, a few films look to take advantage of this lull in the box office to make some cash. This weekend will see the anticipated release of Kevin Hart’s Night School (though the real star of the picture is Tiffany Haddish in her […]
There has been a surprising amount of interest in this film since it was put into pre-production last yea. This is due to two reasons in particular. First, this adaptation of a famed children’s classic is directed by Eli Roth, the gore master and torture porn enthusiast behind films like Cabin Fever, the Hostel movies, […]
The Price of Admission 