Initially Promising Dark Matter Sinks Under Weight of Prestige TV Bloat | TV/Streaming

Based on the book by Blake Crouch, “Dark Matter” opens promisingly. The always-good and often-great Edgerton plays Jason Dessen, a Chicago-based physicist with a loving wife named Daniela (Connelly) and a teen son named Charlie (Oakes Fegley). As he celebrates the announcement that his buddy Ryan (Jimmi Simpson) has just won the Pavia Prize, one … Read more

Skull and Bones Sinks Under Weight of Its Own Ambition | Video Games

The problem is that these sequences are only a small portion of the gameplay in “Skull and Bones,” which often comes down to shooting cannonballs at other ships or trying to ram them. There is a bit of a learning curve to combat in that it’s not a standard shooter—no such thing as automatic cannons—so … Read more

Box Office Results: Wonka Sinks Night Swim

The first weekend of 2024 saw Wonka emerge victorious over his competition with $14.4 million, per Deadline. The chocolate maker has earned $164.6M domestically and $465.8M worldwide. Universal, meanwhile, had to settle for second place with their new release Night Swim, which collected $12M from 3,250 theaters — less than half of M3GAN’s opening weekend … Read more

Wonka wins while Night Swim sinks

With an estimated $11 million debut and a low 40% audience score, Night Swim doesn’t look to be the next breakout horror hit. In our Thursday predictions we said that despite most horror films being critic proof, the new James Wan/ Jason Blum collaboration Night Swim would (forgive the pun) sink or swim based on … Read more

Hunger Games Prequel Rises to the Top as Marvels Sinks

There are plenty of pros and cons at the box office this week. We’ll start with the good news. The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, opened with a decent but not spectacular $44 million, enough to propel the Francis Lawrence-directed pic to No. 1 domestically, per Deadline. Internationally, Songbirds collected $54.5M, … Read more