We went to see it. Maybe you did too. It seems we can’t stop talking about BARBIE. That’s what happens when a movie grosses $1B. On the domestic side, it’s about to reach $500M, and it looks poised to top THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE ($574M) as the highest-grossing film of the year. When a […]
With A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, a universe is born. Next March, audiences will get a spin-off prequel to one of the most successful horror franchises of the past five years. The original film made $188M domestically and was the highest grossing horror film of 2018. The sequel, A QUIET PLACE PART II, made $160M […]
Does no one want to open a film on October 6th? When KRAVEN THE HUNTER was pushed off the October 6th date to 2024, it left a hole in the release schedule. Should KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON take that spot? A decade ago, Warner Bros. reinvented the first weekend in October by releasing GRAVITY […]
Let’s face it; it was a dismal month for movie posters. There were no A’s, and only two films scored an A-. What is clear is that people are in the mood for freights. Four of the highest scoring posters were horror films (including two for THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER), while the fifth was for A […]
It’s been a rough couple of years for Warner Bros. Starting with the disastrous day-and-date experiment of 2021, Warner Bros. has had few wins since. Let’s look at what did work. THE BATMAN was a smash. Though smaller in scale, ELVIS was given the same level of commitment as WB gave for BARBIE. And the […]
There are lots of mixed signals out there in the superhero universe. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL 3 did very well. SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE did even better. But ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, THE FLASH, MORBIUS and BLACK ADAM did, well, less well. Looking at the upcoming slate, the established properties look strong. DEADPOOL […]
In a bit of under-the-radar news, last week Lionsgate quietly shifted the release date for SAW X from October 27th up to September 29th. That may seem like a rather unremarkable date change, except that it was one more chapter in what’s shaping up to be an unusual Halloween season. It also now leaves Universal […]
Disney has been making live-action versions of their animated classics for over a decade. Most notably, the studio struck gold with CINDERELLA (2015), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017), ALADDIN (2019), THE LION KING (2019), and THE LITTLE MERMAID from earlier this year. Next up is SNOW WHITE, arriving in theaters on March 22nd. SNOW was […]
Could it be that we will look back at this weekend as an inflection point for theatrical? BARBIE appears to be a once-in-a-decade film event, OPPENHEIMER is creating new rules for PLF titles, while SOUND OF FREEDOM is poised to cross $100M. None of these are sequels. None of these have huge budgets. None of […]
Last year, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER dominated the holiday season. This year, several big titles will be vying for your holiday dollars. Currently, there are eight wide releases scheduled for the back half of December, and that doesn’t include platforms that hope to expand during the holidays. Of the eight, FERRARI (December 25th, Neon) […]
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