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Box Office Weekend: Zootopia Still on “Topia”
Disney has a bona-fide hit on its hands again as Zootopia won the weekend box office for the second time in a row. While an estimated $50 million has added up to $142.6 million domestic gross, the film has picked up more than $431.3 million worldwide. The next biggest release was 10 Cloverfield Lane. Critically acclaimed, it opened to a much more modest weekend estimate of $25.2 million, but with ...[Read More]
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]
Box Office Weekend: Deadpool Rides High for Second Week
Considering its big opening last week and critical praise, there was not much room for doubt that Deadpool would score big once again. Pulling in an estimated $55 million, it finished head and shoulders over the competition, keeping Kung Fu Panda 3 in second place with an estimated $12.5 million. While still not the success of the previous films, Kung Fu Panda 3 has still pulled in $117.1 million ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Risen
No matter what, religion is always going to be interesting debate in any form of an adaption. That’s why biblical films are hard to make and why we have so few. The Passion of the Christ (2004) was a film about the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus which was marked by much controversy due its violent and graphic themes. A different kind of biblical film was The Prince of Egypt (1998), a...[Read More]