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I recently had something to say of the non-appearance of Deadline 's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament and its revelation of Hollywoo...

For many of those who follow the box office these days Deadline magazine's annual Most Valuable Blockbuster "tournament"--the...

For many decades the Star Wars franchise was king of the blockbusters. Not only did the original 1977 Star Wars , by bringing the model the ...

I can't say that I paid much attention to the publicity attending the making and release of the live-action He-Man movie. Aside from hav...

As I have been saying for years now 2023 was a very revealing year where the shape of the North American box office was concerned , specific...

In assessing the 2025 box office my first thought was of how the reality stacked up against my predictions at the end of last year . In part...

The term "fandom" is probably most strongly associated with science fiction, where Hugo Gernsback did much to cultivate a self-awa...

Hollywood producer Dan Farah's recent documentary The Age of Disclosure takes its name from the view held by some of those who believe ...

Robert Ludlum's MacKenzie Hawkins-Sam Devereaux novels seemed to me even more off the main track of his work than the novels Ludlum publ...

The near-total media silence regarding the announced end of Gold Eagle's day as an active book publisher was an indication of just how ...