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The Preview Reel: Mutants Over Wonderland
Welcome to the fourth week of CinemaNerdz’s “Preview Reel” where we look at the week’s upcoming wide release movies. Memorial Day weekend is one of the biggest movie weekends of the summer, and this year features two franchise-tent pole films. There’s the next installment in the long-lasting X-Men franchise with X-Men: Apocalypse, and the follow-up to the 2010 smash hit Alice in Wonderland, Disney...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Angry Birds Smashes Box Office
Yes, the phone app that has won the hearts (and wallets) of millions has been made into a movie, and while it may have been a mixed bag with critics, audiences made The Angry Birds Movie the hit of the weekend, bringing in an estimated $39 million. While it may not look too impressive in stateside revenue, the $73 million production has been a massive hit overseas, netting a worldwide gross of $15...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Angry Birds Movie
It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sortof target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length ...[Read More]