Although this holiday weekend wasn’t a bust for either of the new wide release movies, both fell very short of expectations. The fifth installment to Disney’s tentpole pirate franchise won the box office, but delivered the series’...
The #1 movie in America is currently Ridley Scott’s return to facehuggers and xenomorphs. However, that may not be the case when the weekend actuals are announced later today.
It was a rough weekend to be a new movie. Friday’s releases not only had to contend against last week’s knockout hit, but against bad marketing, warm weather and Mother’s Day.
The 2017 summer blockbuster season officially kicked off this weekend with a Marvel sequel that dominated the box office. If Warner Bros. and Fox think their respective ‘King Arthur’ and ‘Snatched’ stand a chance of taking the top...
While Vin Diesel and company topped the charts for the third consecutive week, two new movies – one of which didn’t even rate a mention in Friday’s Weekend Movies post – are getting the most attention in terms of box office news....
Five new movies opened in the shadow of last week’s ‘Fate of the Furious’ and not a single one of them came close making a dent in the Top 10. In fact, all five underperformed and two completely backfired. Fortunately, four of the...
When the original ‘Fast and Furious’ movie opened in 2001, if a fortune-teller had told me that the eighth installment of the franchise would draw the biggest worldwide opening weekend of all time, I’d have immediately asked for m...
Despite three new movies and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ snapping at its heels, ‘The Boss Baby’ held the top spot at the box office for a second week. Each of the new releases saw decent returns, but with ‘The Fate of Furious’ racing i...
One of this weekend’s new movies managed to do the impossible. Not only did it wildly out-gross expectations, it put down the Beast. The week’s other wide release underperformed, while each of last week’s titles stumbled during th...
No surprises here, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ sang its way to the top of the box office again this weekend. Of the two TV-to-big-screen adaptations, the one that actually has a fan base had a solid debut, while the needless one floppe...
I have a feeling that Disney opened its ‘Beauty and the Beast’ remake one week after Warner’s new King Kong picture specifically so that box office journalists could use the above headline. I will happily comply.
These days, sequels, spin-offs, reboots and remakes are no longer guaranteed box office success as they were when they started flooding the market a decade ago, but that doesn’t mean studios are about to stop trying. Warner Bros. ...
