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% […]
When a movie gets bad reviews, there is usually a reason why. You may not agree with that reason, and that is completely legitimate, but it is usually impossible to deny that you can understand the reason why critics/audiences don’t like the movie. One of my favorite movies of all time is 2008’s Speed Racer, […]
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, […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Aug 17-Aug 19): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates Crazy Rich Asians / $25,010,000 / -5.7% / Weekend 2 / Warner Bros. The Meg / $13,030,000 / -38.4% / Weekend 3 / Warner Bros. The Happytime Murders / $10,020,000 […]
The end of summer is a bit of an odd time. While most people consider summer to be over when the kids go back to school, school starts at different times all around the country. As a result, in the twilight of the season, studios seem to toss out odd-ball fare in the hopes that […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Aug 17-Aug 19): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates Crazy Rich Asians / $25,325,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Warner Bros. 5-Day Opening Weekend Total: $34,001,000 The Meg / $21,150,000 / -53.4% / Weekend 2 / Warner Bros. […]
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Aug 3-Aug 5): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates Mission Impossible-Fallout / $35,000,000 / -42.8% / Weekend 2 / Paramount Christopher Robin / $25,003,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Disney The Spy Who Dumped Me / $12,350,000 / […]
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