It’s a tricky situation. People say they want original films but they often turn their noses up at them at the box office, discovering them later on streaming after hearing some good word of mouth. So the studios lean into … Continue reading Box Office: June 14-16
While the weekend performed better than it did a year ago, the box office had two films at the top that should have done a lot better than they did. The Secret Life of Pets 2 took too long to get … Continue reading Box Office: June 7-9
The summer box office is moving right along and there was certainly a lot of anticipation and marketing/promotion out there for the box office winner this weekend with Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The film landed just over $49 million for … Continue reading Box Office: May 31 – June 2
With Doom Patrol now wrapped up all my energy and excitement is focused on the debut this week for Swamp Thing. We’re closing in on the May 31st, 2019 debut of the series on the service after getting a couple of … Continue reading 2019 Summer TV Preview – Streaming (DC Universe)
The holiday weekend won’t have its final numbers for Monday for awhile yet but the three-day results are pretty good for Aladdin. The latest Disney film hit a $86 million pickup over the weekend with its debut and is expected to … Continue reading Box Office: May 24-26
It took a few weeks but the Avengers: Endgame film has fallen to second place as John Wick: Parabellum has arrived. It’s been two years since the second film landed where it did a strong $30 million and now the third film has … Continue reading Box Office: May 17-19
The CW set their upfronts today and that has revealed the schedule for the fall season, which doesn’t have a lot of new shows but will end the 2019 period with the supposedly significant Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event … Continue reading The CW Fall 2019-20 Schedule Revealed
ABC has set their schedule for the fall season and it’s one that looks pretty familiar to what we’re seeing now with their current midseason schedule. There are two new dramas landing in the 10pm slots with Tuesday and Wednesday … Continue reading ABC Fall 2019-20 Schedule Revealed
NBC has set their main schedule for the fall and it’s one where some are wondering how they’re a top-rated network with some of the decisions made. With Manifest doing so well, making the second season a midseason debut? Overall, … Continue reading NBC Fall 2019-20 Schedule Revealed
Fox is undergoing a lot of changes as they move forward as a part of Disney and they’ve now set their fall 2019 schedule. It’s a surprising one in that because of the WWE SmackDown Live inclusion, the Friday night … Continue reading Fox Fall 2019-20 Schedule Revealed
While there was some chance that Avengers: Endgame might fall to the second place slot this weekend it managed to eke out a win. The film brought in $63 million domestic to bring it to $723 million. That has it surpassing Black … Continue reading Box Office: May 10-12
It’s been a hard week. Harder weeks are ahead. Let’s find some positivity this weekend? Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Doesn’t Want To Get Out Of Bed
Disney has been focused initially on getting its various branches and offices dealt with after the acquisition of 20th Century Fox and its film slate and now they’re setting the main schedule for the next two years and staking out … Continue reading Disney Schedules Ten Years Of Films (Sorta)
With the final numbers to come out later today, the estimates are in and Avengers: Endgame has taken the top spot at the box office. With $350 million last weekend, this weekend saw it make another $145.8 million this weekend. But … Continue reading Box Office: May 3-5
There are a lot of records that it didn’t break but let’s be honest; it broke all the ones that most of us keep track of. With The Force Awakens setting a twelve-day record for fastest film to reach $1 billion … Continue reading Box Office: April 26-28
The folks at WB/New Line are handling their horror line well as a part of a larger Conjuring vibe but not working the same story over and over to death, instead, coming up with properties within it that find its own … Continue reading Box Office: April 19-21
April is really set to be a light month for film in general as a lot of projects have avoided the month in anticipation of what Avengers: Endgame will do in terms of wide-releasing projects. This weekend saw a few new … Continue reading Box Office: April 12-14
With all the fun of potential lightning striking twice intros next week, Shazam! landed this weekend to a $53 million debut or $56,775,000 million including some special previews that were done previously to boost word of mouth. The film got an … Continue reading Box Office: April 5-7
Disney has had a mixed record of sorts when it comes to the live-action adaptations of their animated works as some seem to just click better in the transition than others. While the pairing of Tim Burton with Dumbo certainly makes … Continue reading Box Office: March 29-31
There was a lot of anticipation for Us this weekend, the latest Jordan Peele film, but there was a sense through some of the reviews that it wasn’t going to be quite as good as Get Out was. That said, the good … Continue reading Box Office: March 22-24
The arrival of Captain Marvel the weekend before had the film making some noise with a $455 million worldwide take and now at the end of its second weekend it’s landing right around $760 million worldwide in twelve days of release. … Continue reading Box Office: March 15-17
