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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 22nd, 2015 – I’m Holding Out for a Hero

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:00:33 +0000

By the time you read this, two of this week’s big new Blu-ray titles may be able to boast about winning shiny Oscar trophies. Or maybe they walked away empty-handed at the awards this weekend. I have no idea. Writing these posts in advance is a tricky business sometimes. New Releases ‘Big Hero 6‘ –...

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Weekend Box Office: Audiences Get Out for ‘Exodus’

Luke Hickman — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:00:09 +0000

Despite featuring a new blockbuster, this was yet another disappointing weekend at the box office, and points to to a grim outlook for the final month of the year. As expected, Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings‘ took the top spot, but with a less-than-impressive debut. The Biblical epic only earned $24.5 million from more...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Mockingjay’ Still Flying

Luke Hickman — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:00:18 +0000

Without a single new wide release, this post-Thanksgiving weekend was a bust at the box office, just as everyone expected. In fact, it was one of the worst of the year. Like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, it’ll go down in history. Even after falling 62%, ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1‘ remained in the top...

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Weekend Box Office: Hungry for Seconds

Luke Hickman — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:00:13 +0000

As expected, ‘The Hunger Games’ repeated its box office victory for a second weekend over the Thanksgiving holiday. However, the film is still not living up to the success of its predecessor. ‘Mockingjay, Part 1‘ remained atop the charts even after dropping 53%, which is just about on par with the last installment (‘Catching Fire‘)....

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Hunger’ Strike

Luke Hickman — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:00:01 +0000

While the third ‘Hunger Games’ movie easily finished at the top of the box office this weekend, it didn’t perform as well as the first two installments. Nor did it come close to performing as well as expected. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1‘ closed out the three-day weekend with $123 million, making it the...

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Weekend Box Office: Comfortably Dumb

Luke Hickman — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:00:00 +0000

Nostalgia drew moviegoers to theaters this weekend, but last week’s movies also saw great success despite slipping down the ranks. Limited release awards hopefuls also performed spectacularly over this all-around successful weekend. The #1 movie in North America was ‘Dumb and Dumber To‘. The sequel comes twenty years after the beloved and highly quotable original...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Hero’ Triumphs

Luke Hickman — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:00:48 +0000

Both of this weekend’s new wide releases were produced for the same budget ($165 million) and were expected to close at around the same mark, but audiences made their decisions and one surprisingly edged a bit ahead of the other. The top movie in America is Disney’s Marvel-inspired animated superhero flick ‘Big Hero 6‘. With...

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Weekend Movies: Finally, Some Stellar Options

Luke Hickman — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:00:00 +0000

Call a babysitter. Clear the calendar. This weekend’s two wide releases are not to be missed and not to be spoiled. Disney continues its string of better-than-Pixar animated movies with ‘Big Hero 6‘, an obvious byproduct of the studio’s acquisition of comic book giant Marvel. This superhero origins tale follows a genius kid whose world-changing...

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‘Big Hero 6’ Review: Disney’s Own Crimefighters

Philip Brown — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:00:37 +0000

When Disney bought Marvel, it was inevitable that we would one day get a Disney animated superhero adventure. Well, it’s finally here in ‘Big Hero 6’. While the movie is just as sanitized, sentimental and obvious as you’d expect, it’s also big, bright and colorful Disney fun featuring spandex-clad fisticuffs. Someone owes Brad Bird a...

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The Trailer Park: Horrible Hero Hunger

Luke Hickman — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:00:16 +0000

Among other things, November will bring us a bunch of sequels, plus one movie that sounds like it must be a sequel but actually isn’t. ‘Big Hero 6’ (Nov. 7) For a few years now, Disney Animation Studios has pumprf out better “Pixar movies” than Pixar. ‘Big Hero 6’ appears to follow suit. All you...

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