Box Office
Box Office Check In – Dunkirk and Get Out Still Champs
When it comes to box office this year, Dunkirk at $188 and Get Out at $176 seem untouchable in terms...
Box Office Check-In: The Post’s Massive Haul, Shape of Water Cracks Top Ten, Lady Bird Makes Bank
In just nine theaters, Steven Spielberg's The Post had a massive 58K per theater average, which shows this movie will...
Beauty and the Beast’s Massive Box Office Take $170 million opening
Beauty and the Beast, according to Box Office Mojo, has just set a March record for opening and became the...
Hidden No More: Hidden Figures Nears $150 Million, a 2016 Success Story
Both Hidden Figures and La La Land are making bank at the box office, and are both female led (for...
Box Office Check-in – Oscar Movies Making Bank
Now that Sully is out of the race, the box office champ is also the frontrunner to win top Oscars...
Hidden Figures Earns the Rare A+ on Cinemascore, Beats Rogue One’s Friday Box Office
I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes but Fox's Hidden Figures just beat Rogue...
The Martian Set to Top Gladiator as Ridley Scott’s Highest Grossing film
It's impressive to see The Martian bounce back to the number one spot at the box office, bringing its domestic...
With a $60M weekend, Straight Outta Compton vaults to Academy attention
As promising as the gloss critics had already given Straight Outta Compton, the multi-faceted bio-pic of rap group N.W.A. achieved...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Jurassic World’s Massive Success
"To a canary, the cat is the monster. We're just used to being the cat." If all goes as expected,...
Pixar’s Inside Out Nearly Wipes out Jurassic World, Dope hits Top Five
Pixar's Inside Out was in fewer theaters than Jurassic World but had almost the same per theater average, which means...
Women are More Powerful at the Box Office Than Hollywood Gives them Credit For
The headlines lately have ranged from shock to surprise to hope to despair about the films directed by women, films...
Oscar Contending Pics, Documentaries Thrive in Limited Release
Birdman did exceedingly well in limited release, with a $28,721 per theater average playing in just 50 locations. Whiplash needs...
Gone Girl to become Fincher’s Highest Grossing Film, Women in Hollywood Get a Major Boost
David Fincher's Gone Girl is about to make in 4 weeks what Benjamin Button made in 18. Argo totaled out...
David Fincher’s Gone Girl slays with $38M debut
Gone Girl vaults to the top of David Fincher's box-office chart with the best opening weekend of his career. $38...
Monday Box Office – If You Brand it, They Will Come
Our teenagers today should be happy that they have become so heavily branded they no longer have much of a...
Boyhood Offers Some Hope in Box Office News
Boyhood has already made a cool $7 mil at the box office and Oscar season hasn't even started yet in...
Remember when ‘experts’ said Disney would lose money on Maleficent?
Who's smiling a wicked smile now? Just 3 months ago, financial experts were predicting doom and gloom for Disney's Maleficent....
Box Office Check-In – Women Represent
Jennifer Lawrence has to be one of the biggest stars in the world right now. $158 million for the opening...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler Takes Number One for Third Consecutive Weekend
Only three Best Picture nominees have ever been number one for 3 consecutive weeks, and no black writer/director is among...
The Butler opens at Number One
All of the good word of mouth (sans some critics) has helped The Butler take the number one spot at...
‘Veep’ Celebrates President’s Day With New Trailer
HBO's Veep returns for its seventh and final season on March 31. To celebrate President's Day, HBO released the full trailer...
The State of the Race — Competing Agendas Throw Oscar Race Out of Whack
For most of the time I've been covering the Oscars (going on 20 years now) and throughout their 90 year...
Assessing the Seemingly Unlimited Limited Series Emmy Contenders
This week, the Cooler Game looks at the 2019 crop of Limited Series Emmy contenders including HBO's Sharp Objects, Showtime's...
Bohemian Rhapsody Tops Sound Editors Awards
Bohemian Rhapsody might be our double sound winner next Sunday, since it's now won both the CAS and the MPSE....
Eighth Grade and Can You Ever Forgive Me Win at WGA
Original Screenplay - Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham Adapted Screenplay - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty Bathtubs...
All This and the Oscars Too Locks in a Week Out
Ryan, Marshall and I got together for one Saturday night podcast pre-WGA. We went in on predictions a little, where...
Final Analysis – Box Office, Rotten Tomatoes and Audience Rating
The critics now are different from how they used to be. For whatever reason, the critics often fall into groupthink...
Interview: Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan on Creating the Immersive Sound Design of Roma
Supervising sound editor Sergio Diaz spent months collecting the sounds we hear in Roma. Whether it was finding the right...
Bohemian Rhapsody, Isle of Dogs Win at CAS Awards
The Cinema Audio Society handed out their awards last night, with Bohemian Rhapsody taking the top prize in Sound Mixing...
Interview: Roma’s Production Designer Eugenio Caballero “We didn’t start by looking at images, we started with conversations.”
While watching Alfonso Cuaron's visual masterpiece, we are transported back to his childhood, back to 1970s Mexico. The details in...