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Box-Office Weekend: Bad Boys for Life on Top
This weekend saw a new film take control of the weekend box office as Bad Boys for Life and Dolittle both debuted this weekend in the first and second positions of the countdown, respectively. The Will Smith and Martin Lawrence sequel brought in $59.2 million, easily besting second-place finisher Dolittle which managed a $22.5 million weekend debut. Right on Dolittle’s heels was last week’s top fi...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: 1917 Unseats Star Wars
Apparently a fourth week on top of the box-office weekend wasn’t in the cards for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker as the film was bested by the new film from director Sam Mendes, 1917. The war epic enjoyed a first weekend in wide-release by claiming first place over the weekend and a $36.5 million weekend gross. Though The Rise of Skywalker lost the top spot this weekend, it did mana...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Rise of Skywalker Still Strong with the Force
Retaining the box-office weekend top spot for a third week in a row was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker as the film took in $33.7 million over the weekend to bolster its three-week total to $450.8 million. The film also lifted its worldwide total to over $900 million. Though it remained in first place, The Rise of Skywalker, only bested second-place finisher Jumanji: The Next Level b...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Rise of Skywalker Still the Top Dog
Easily holding onto the top spot of the box-office weekend was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, which made $72.0 million on the domestic front in its second weekend of release. This gives the final film of the “Skywalker Saga” a staggering two-week total of $361.8 million. With a little less than half of the take that The Rise of Skywalker boasted, Jumanji: The Next Level took ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The Force is King as The Rise of Skywalker Dominates
While there was little doubt exactly which film would top the box-office weekend before Christmas, what was up for debate was just how much the concluding chapter in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker would make. Ultimately, the film took in $175.5 million domestically its opening weekend, easily dominating the weekend box-office top ten. Despite the bawdy numb...[Read More]
Paul Thomas Anderson Returns to Focus Features for New Film
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is set to partner with Focus Features on his, as of this writing, untitled new film which Anderson will also produce along with frequent collaborators JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi. Anderson and Focus Features previously collaborated on the director’s feature Phantom Thread (2017), which earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Director fo...[Read More]
Final Trailer Released for 1917
The final trailer has been release for 1917. Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre, and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against...[Read More]
Official PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Poster Released
Just in time for the holidays, the official poster for the upcoming thriller starring Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman has been released. Check out the poster below, and the film’s trailer above. From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman…until a mysterious event abr...[Read More]
New Trailer Released for TOP GUN: MAVERICK!
A new trailer for the long-awaited sequel to Top Gun (1986), Top Gun: Maverick starring Tom Cruise, has just been released. After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a de...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Jumanji Goes to the Next Level
Unlike last weekend, where only one new film managed to crack the weekend box-office top ten, three new films took spots amongst this weekend’s top films. Finishing in the top spot, by a very wide margin, was the sequel Jumanji: The Next Level, which enjoyed an opening box-office weekend that brought in $60.1 million. Despite being knocked to second place and making over $40 million less than Juma...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Frozen II Maintains Icy Grip on Box Office
Only one film entered anew the top ten this past box-office weekend as Dark Waters cracked the list finishing in the sixth spot. Still standing tall above all challengers was last week’s top finisher, Frozen II, which added $34.7 million over the weekend, giving the film a three-week tally of $337.7 million. Meanwhile, Knives Out held firm in the second spot of the three-day top ten with $14.2 mil...[Read More]