The Four Big Lessons of the Summer 2015 Box Office
Trying to extract lessons from any single season of box office results is always, on some level, a losing game. If you stare at any generalization for more than two seconds, it turns into a...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Zac Efron Has No Friends (to Save Him...
Is it really still summer? Yes, although you couldn’t tell from the domestic box office, which totaled a measly $86 million, the lowest-grossing weekend of the year. It’s finally over, but August has...
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The Summer Box Office Winners & Losers: From Billion-Dollar Dinosaurs to...
As we start poring over the reviews out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto to get that ever-crucial five-month head start on our Oscar pools, we can easily fool ourselves into thinking that film, at its...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: A ‘Perfect Guy’ Squeezes Past Some...
This weekend Hollywood shook off the pall cast by endless summer’s malingering August to come back with a surprising bang — and Oscar season hasn’t even delivered its opening salvo yet. That won’t...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Johnny Depp Scorched by the Maze Runner...
Be warned, citizens of TV land: I hope you lived it up last night at the Emmys and enjoyed what’s left of this Golden Age, because the prestige barbarians are at the gates, and celluloid award season...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Adam Sandler (Well, His Voice) Sets a...
This weekend America went gaga for Frankie the First’s big trip to the East Coast: It was pope this, pope that, pope coloring books and modest Fiats as far as the media’s eye could see. But most of us...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: We’re Saving Matt Damon
OK, Hollywood: Strip off your shirt, stick out your chest, and cue the Wagner. To paraphrase Colonel Kilgore, don’t you just love the smell of money in the morning? Yep, it smelled like victory at the...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘Pan’ Dies on Mars
Where last weekend’s box office success just felt morally, artistically, and financially right, this weekend’s disappointment almost erases all of those fond memories of a week ago. The North American...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Jack Black Scares Off Matt Damon
The box office suffered a 20-car pileup this weekend as basically every movie with artistic ambitions or aspirations higher than just “Watch out, dinosaurs!”3 attempted to merge into the traffic of...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Bill Murray, Vin Diesel, Steve Jobs, and...
All the bombs went off at once this weekend at the multiplex. Every single one of the new studio releases flopped and the overall box office suffered accordingly, down more than 10 percent from last...
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