Weekend Movies: Memorial Weekend Sequel Battle
Memorial Day began at the box office on Thursday this year. Going head-to-head in theaters this weekend are two #2s, one for the whole family and one just for the adults.
Memorial Day began at the box office on Thursday this year. Going head-to-head in theaters this weekend are two #2s, one for the whole family and one just for the adults.
Apparently, the U.S. is the only nation to recognize how low the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series has fallen. Despite opening domestically with only $90.1 million ($25 million below the opening of 2007’s ‘...
Aside from one behemoth studio tentpole, this is a pretty light weekend, as far as every other movie studio is concerned. Not even the small indie films want to open against Disney’s swashbuckling cash cow. Who can blame the...
Frankly, I’ve been fed up with the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series since the second movie. The first film, ‘The Curse of the Black Pearl‘, is a Disney classic. But as often happens, Disney proved wi...
With the only new major box office contenders being an R-rated comedy and a bad-looking post-apocalyptic vampire western, ‘Thor’ held onto the #1 spot this weekend, outgrossing its nearest competitor by over $10 millio...
This weekend may be one of the most uneventful of the summer. A crude R-rated chick comedy opens against a dystopic, post-apocalyptic 3D vampire western. Considering that one limits its audience with its rating and the other is a ...
Although ‘Thor‘ didn’t receive the thunderous opening some may have expected, it sure dominated the box office by bringing in more than double that of its closest competitor, ‘Fast Five’. ‘Thor&...
The box office numbers should be interesting this weekend. Three different genre films come to the big screen, but will they be able to unseat the two giants still reigning, ‘Fast Five’ and ‘Rio’?
It’s official: The summer blockbuster season struck early this year. ‘Fast Five‘ pulled in $83.6 million over the weekend, making it the highest opening movie of 2011 so far. The caper sequel surpassed box office...
This weekend is a big ol’ grab bag of genres and choices. Unfortunately, like most weekends, the majority of the movies being unleashed – both into the malls and multiplexes and the smaller art houses – are terrible. But hey...
Easter weekend moviegoers went for the birds again, as ‘Rio’ was the number one film for the second week in a row. I thought that maybe ‘Hop’, the movie about the mischievous, rock ‘n roll-playing Eas...
Since I’m always looking for ways to frame the weekend movie brawl, when I see two movies that have jungle animals in the title, well, it’s pretty easy. It looks like things really should come down to Fox’s ̵...