eddie the eagle
Box Office Weekend: Zootopia Tops with Audiences
Earning critical praise and audience acclaim was not enough…Zootopia, the latest from Disney, also took the mantle of highest opening weekend for an animated Disney film (at least, not involving Pixar) with an estimated $73.7 million. Not looking quite so tall was second-place finisher London Has Fallen. Despite critical bashing and a fairly weak opening weekend estimate of $21.7 million on a $60 ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Gods of Egypt No Match for Deadpool
Big, noisy, and hollow. While that might easily describe the critical reaction to Gods of Egypt, only the last can truly describe its box office take. While the solid earner and acclaimed Deadpool took the weekend yet again with an estimated $31.5 million, the $140 million-costing blockbuster Gods of Egypt failed on all fronts, bringing in a domestic estimated total of $14 million and not much els...[Read More]
Movie Review: Eddie the Eagle
With live action family films essentially dying out as a genre – unless you count Marvel movies or straight-to-DVD Sandlot sequels – it is sort of refreshing when a movie comes out that is so clearly earmarked for pretty much everyone. And, barring one head-scratchingly out of place sex talk, Dexter Fletcher’s Eddie the Eagle is a terrific family film. Growing up with bad knees, resilient dreamer ...[Read More]