In what will likely be one of the slowest weekends of the year, Mean Girls remained on top while I.S.S opened in a dismal 7th place. January is generally a quiet time at the box office as studios give their big Holiday hits some breathing room while also avoiding the massive draw that is the … Read more
Fast 11 will trim the franchise’s budget significantly in an attempt to make the upcoming installment more “lean”. With 10 entries in the core franchise (and one spin-off), Fast & Furious has worked hard to up the action throughout, often taking it to the extreme with its over-the-top sequences and stunts. Let’s see, there have … Read more
It took 36 years for Paramount to release Top Gun: Maverick after Top Gun became the #1 movie of 1986 and one of the biggest films of the entire decade. How long will we have to wait for a Top Gun 3? Maybe not that long. According to various reports, Paramount is already working on a third film in … Read more
The Annie Awards, the animation world’s top prize, introduced its Best Animated Feature award in 1992. And in the 30+ years since, there has always been at least one animated movie from either Disney or Pixar nominated for that Best Animated Feature prize. In many years, there were multiple Disney/Pixar nominees in the category. Until 2024. … Read more
Wonka continues its solid box office run with another $14.4 million while Night Swim fails to become a new horror classic. In our Thursday predictions I said that anything over $15 million would take first place. Although that was a correct statement, I thought that the new Blumhouse horror film Night Swim would be the … Read more
The end of 2023 has come, and it has been yet another phenomenal year for movies. With the historic WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and the Barbenheimer double feature, 2023 has been unforgettable. Here are my ten favorite movies of the year. Honorable Mentions: Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve), The Color Purple, … Read more
Rebel Moon easily topped the Netflix Top 10, making it the streamer’s most watched movie for a second week in a row. It looks like many households tuned in to watch Zack Snyder’s critically divisive Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire over the holidays, with Netflix revealing it was their top movie over the last … Read more
Our resident contrarian revisits five movies that everyone loved way more that he did, including Oppenheimer and Barbie. Well, Schmoes, as 2023 finally draws to a close, we reflect on a year full of ups and downs, thanks to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes resulting in many movies getting pushed to next year. If there is … Read more
Wonka becomes the official film of the holiday season as it returns to the top of the charts to close out 2023. Despite no soon to be billion dollar grossing films in the marketplace, the final weekend of 2023 is actually turning out to be a pretty solid one, despite what we thought in our … Read more
With Warner Bros launching 3 new films over the holidays, it looks like the musical Wonka will land on top for the last weekend of 2023 The final week of the year is always a hard one to predict as most movies see a halo effect from their Christmas week box office. Despite no huge … Read more