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The Preview Reel for October 20, 2017 Releases
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Last week we told you to never count out Blumhouse even when their movies look subpar, and what do you know, Happy Death Day overachieved with $26 million. This weekend will see a slew of new releases, but will they be able to take down the Groundhog Day influenced horror flick? Let’s see if Geo...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: The Foreigner and Happy Death Day
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Blade Runner 2049 received rave reviews last week, but that did not translate to box-office success as the movie stumbled to a $32.8 million opening against a $155 million budget. The sci-fi flick has a chance to retain the top spot, however, as the competition this week looks relatively weak—th...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Can a New Blade Runner Climb the Mountain Between Us?
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Last weekend saw one of the closest box office weekends in recent memory as Kingsman: The Golden Circle barely edged out It and American Made for the top spot. This weekend will tell a different story as one of the most anticipated movies of the fall comes out—Blade Runner 2049. The Kate Winslet and Idr...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: American Made & Flatliners
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Last weekend’s box office was lower than expected with Kingsman: The Golden Circle failing to hit $40 million, The LEGO Ninjago Movie barely earning $20 million, and Friend Request recording the worst wide opening of all-time with a mere $2 million across 2,500 screens. This week, Kingsman will be doing...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: New LEGO, Spy, and Horror Movies
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. The horror film It dominated the box office again last weekend as two new releases struggled to find their audience. It would appear though that the two-week reign for the Stephen King adaption is about to end as two high-profile releases (The LEGO Ninjago Movie and Kingsman: The Golden Circle) ...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Mother and American Assassin
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at this week’s upcoming wide-release movies. It was the “it” movie last week as it debuted with a stunning $123 million, smashing numerous fall and horror movie records. There is no doubt it will stay number one this week, but there are two intriguing releases – Darren Aronofsky’s latest mind-bending thriller, Mother!, and a Michael Keaton spy th...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Pennywise Terrorizes Reese
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. After a couple of historically bad weeks at the box office, we finally have not one, but two new nationwide releases. The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s reign will certainly end as the highly anticipated Stephen King adaptation, It, hits screens. Acting as a bit of counter-programming, Reese Witherspoon’s...[Read More]
Summer Movie Recap (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but the 2017 summer movie season is already over. It seems just like yesterday we were anxiously awaiting the releases of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, War for the Planet of the Apes, and for a small few, possibly even Transformers: The Last Knight. All of those, and so many more, have been released and analyzed, while some have even made their way to...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Will the Hitman’s Bodyguard Get Over Logan Lucky?
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Annabelle: Creation scared away the competition last week with an impressive $35 million. The summer box office is starting to wind down and we have two intriguing, but mostly low-profile releases this week; the buddy comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard and the NASCAR heist flick, Logan Lucky. Both look to ti...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Annabelle Takes On Nut Job
Welcome to the “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. The month of August started off sluggishly with The Dark Tower taking the number one spot with just $19.5 million. Things don’t look to be getting better, especially this week. There’s a prequel to a movie no one really liked in Annabelle: Creation, and the sequel no one was asking for in The Nut Job 2:...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Atomic Blonde Takes on the Emojis
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk dominated the box office last weekend with an outstanding $50.5 million debut, but it looks to be a one week reign as two high profile releases hit the screens this week. Atomic Blonde is an R-rated action flick starring Charlize Theron, and The Emoji Movie is a movie...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Will Dunkirk Win the Week?
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. With Baby Driver opening three weeks ago, followed by Spider-Man: Homecoming, War for the Planet of the Apes just last week, and Dunkirk this week, we are unquestionably in the best stretch of this summer’s wide releases. Enjoy it, because August looks bleak. This is also a rare week where we do...[Read More]