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Box Office Weekend: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Dominates
As expected, the latest installment of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, finished atop the box office in its first weekend. In fact, earning an estimated $220 million gave the film the second largest opening weekend of all time, just behind its predecessor, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which earned $247.9 million. Finishing in a very distant second was the animated feature Ferd...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Third Time’s Cool for Coco
For the third week in a row, Disney and Pixar’s Coco held onto the top spot at the box office. Earning an estimated $18.3 million, the animated hit finished with almost twice the box office of second-place finisher Justice League, which itself brought in $9.6 million. In just three weeks, Coco has earned $135.5 million domestically. However, it’s run at the top likely comes to an end this week whe...[Read More]
The Florida Project Named Best Picture by the Detroit Film Critics Society
The Detroit Film Critics Society (of which CinemaNerdz Editor-in-Chief, Mike Tyrkus, is a member) is pleased to announce the Best of 2017 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of nineteen film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Gr...[Read More]