Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Oscar Isaac: Poe Dameron and pals NOT to become all-time box office champs? ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ NOT to become worldwide top-grossing movie…
Ben-Hur movie: Ramon Novarro starred in the silent version, at the time the most expensive film production and the biggest worldwide blockbuster in history. ‘Ben-Hur’ movie: Semi-biblical epic starring Ramon…
Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials with Dylan O’Brien: Beating latest Johnny Depp flop at the domestic box office. ‘Maze Runner 2’ to beat Johnny Depp ‘Black Mass’ The 20th…
‘War Room’ movie: The Power of Prayer. The Power of Prayer at the domestic box office: ‘War Room’ (sort of) beats ‘Straight Outta Compton’ A miracle was needed for any…
Sinister 2 poster. ‘American Ultra,’ ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ & ‘Sinister 2’: Weekend box office bombs American Ultra, Hitman: Agent 47, and Sinister 2 are the new entries at the North…
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ 2015: Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ movie is a domestic box office bomb: Will it be saved by international filmgoers? Directed by…
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ box office: Bigger domestic flop than expected? Before I address the box office debacle of Warner…
Fantastic Four 2015: Miles Teller as Reed Richards a.k.a. Mister Fantastic in 20th Century Fox’s box office bomb-in-the-making. Box office: ‘Fantastic Four’ 2015 bombs, ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ to…
Jurassic World: The game is on vs. the blockbuster The Avangers. Pictured: Velociraptor kicks Iron Man ass at worldwide box office. ‘Jurassic World’: The game is on vs. ‘The Avengers’…
San Andreas movie with Dwayne Johnson: California nightmare. San Andreas movie box office: $100 million domestic milestone today As the old saying (sort of) goes: If you build it, they…
‘The Lazarus Effect’ with Olivia Wilde. ‘The Lazarus Effect’ box office: Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass horror movie arrives comatose (See previous post: “‘Focus’: Will Smith Has One of Worst…
‘Focus’ movie with Will Smith: Weekend box office dud. ‘Focus’ movie: Will Smith has third weakest weekend box office debut of his career According to those referred to in polite…
Gone Girl movie: David Fincher directs Ben Affleck. ‘Gone Girl’ movie weekend box office: Biggest David Fincher opening weekend ever? Directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl is expected to top…
2014 RoboCop & Frankenstein Reboots Are Domestic Bombs + Zac Efron Disappointment Paying for Itself?
2014 RoboCop with Joel Kinnaman. 2014 ‘RoboCop’: Full-fledged domestic bomb Directed by José Padilha, and starring Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish, Sony Picture’s $100 million-budgeted 2014 RoboCop remake opened with…
Top box office movie Iron Man 3, starring Robert Downey Jr. With a total gross of $409.01 million, the biggest commercial hit of 2013 in the U.S. and Canada is…
The Hobbit 2 a.k.a. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. The sequel to the Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,…
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. In 2012, Gary Ross’ dystopian adventure drama The Hunger Games went on to gross $408.01 million in the U.S.…
‘Ender’s Game’ movie to go the way of ‘John Carter’ & ‘The Golden Compass’? Nov. 11 update: Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, Ender’s Game…
‘Thor 2’ box office: ‘The Avengers’ bump not enough to propel Thor into ‘super man’ territory Nov. 10 update: Directed by Alan Taylor and starring Chris Hemsworth, Thor 2 –…
Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. Tom Hanks’ Captain Phillips weekend box office: One of actor’s biggest domestic openings in the past decade Oct. 13 update: Starring two-time Oscar winner Tom…
New Riddick movie: Vin Diesel. New ‘Riddick’ movie: Vin Diesel has underwhelming domestic debut Universal’s distribution chief Nikki Rocco may have called Riddick‘s opening-weekend figures “a great result,” but an…
One Direction members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson One Direction: This Is Us movie weekend box office: One of steepest Friday-to-Saturday drops ever The…
‘The Wolverine’ 2013 movie box office: Latest domestic summer season disappointment Starring Hugh Jackman, the James Mangold-directed The Wolverine debuted with a way lower than expected $21 million from 3,924…
The Conjuring with paranormal investigator Patrick Wilson. The Conjuring movie may have broken horror genre box office record - even considering inflation July 22 update: James Wan’s Warner Bros.-distributed horror…
Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2. Adam Sandler Grown Ups 2: One of Sandler’s biggest domestic openings ever? Directed by Dennis Dugan, and starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade,…
‘Straight Outta Compton’ poster. Weekend box office: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ to beat weak competitors, but still far from being top blockbuster directed by black filmmaker If you thought last weekend…
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ with Henry Cavill. ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ box office: Hollywood’s third major domestic bomb in a row Right on the heels of Chris Columbus-Adam Sandler’s Pixels…
Still Alice with Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. ‘Still Alice’ and ‘Maps to the Star’s box office: Julianne Moore Oscar helps only one movie (See previous post: “‘The Lazarus Effect’…
The Other Woman cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann. ‘The Other Woman’ 2014 box office: Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann comedy to top North American box office chart…
Justin Bieber in Justin Bieber’s Believe. A sort of sequel to Paramount’s 3D box office hit Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Justin M. Chu’s concert documentary Believe follows Canadian singer…
‘Gravity’ film to pass $200 million at domestic box office next weekend? Oct. 23 update: Starring Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller Gravity will quite…
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Disappointing box office pairing. Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg movie ‘2 Guns’: Below par box office receipts Aug. 3: A limp “low $20…