Box Office: March 2019 Winners and Losers
March was something of a roller coaster ride for Disney, with the mega studio claiming both the biggest hit and the biggest flop of the month. That’s likely to become […]
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Box Office: February 2019 Winners and Losers
It was a harsh month at the North American box office. In total, only two wide releases can be regarded as commercial success stories (and one of those is only […]
Box Office: Happy Death Day to ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
The North American box office had a remarkably quiet few days, producing the lowest grossing President’s Day weekend in fifteen years. It wasn’t through lack of trying either, with three […]
Box Office: ‘Lego Movie 2’ Underwhelms, Liam Neeson Survives
Despite consistently positive reviews from critics, the Lego Movie franchise has faced a series of diminishing returns since it debuted back in 2014. That trend continued over the weekend as The Lego […]
Box Office: ‘Glass’ Keeps Top Spot, But ‘Upside’ is Real Winner
It was a remarkably quiet weekend at the North American box office, as the major studios didn’t dare challenge the supremacy of the Super Bowl. With no real competition, M. […]
Box Office: January 2019 Winners and Losers
As is often the case with January, it was a relatively slow month at the North American box office. Long regarded as a dumping ground for movies that studios had […]
Box Office: Summer 2018 Winners, Losers and Survivors
This year’s summer movie season is drawing to a close, with no more studio tentpoles waiting anxiously in the wings. Unlike last year, there were relatively few major disasters at […]
Star Wars: It’s Time to Evolve or Die
Star Wars isn’t dead yet. However, the glee with which some say that it is shows just how much apathy exists for the franchise. Solo did underwhelm in its opening weekend, but the […]
Box Office: ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Has No Competition
Despite bringing in a rather meager sum of money over the weekend, The Hitman’s Bodyguard was able to hold on to the top spot due to the complete absence of any serious […]
Review: ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets kicks off with a montage appropriately set to David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’, a song title which also functions as a two-word description of […]
Box Office: ‘Baywatch’ Failed Because of Dwayne Johnson
For many years now Hollywood executives have believed that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is a box office draw; a movie star so popular, that people will buy tickets for a […]
Box Office: ‘A Cure For Wellness’ Suffers Sickly Opening Weekend
The LEGO Batman Movie was able to hold on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row, dropping a respectable 35% and bringing in over $34 million. […]
Box Office: ‘Split’ Threepeats, Reviews Kill ‘Rings’
Over the weekend, M. Night Shyamalan’s Split held the number one spot at the North American box office for the third consecutive week, fending off two wide releases with a […]
‘Escape Plan 2’ Is The Next Sequel Nobody Asked For
A trend that has become ever more prominent in Hollywood, particularly over the last few years, is the habit of making sequels to films that no one wanted a sequel […]
Box Office: Hidden Figures Battles Star Wars For Top Spot
Over the weekend a close battle was being fought at the North American box office, as awards contender Hidden Figures debuted stronger than expected and challenged Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for […]
