Sunday, July 30, 2023

Mission: Impossible's Place in Pop Culture in 2023--and What it Means for the Series' Fortunes

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At this point it has been over a quarter of a century since the first big-screen Mission: Impossible hit theaters (back in 1996). At the tim...

What Will the Success of "Barbenheim" Mean for Hollywood? Thoughts After the Second Weekend

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After a summer of failures--failures on a large-scale that have been so severe and so numerous as to call into question the whole model of c...

Will Barbie Make a Billion Dollars at the Box Office?

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Earlier this year, looking at the roaring success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie , I wondered if it would be the only billion-dollar hit of ...

Will Greta Gerwig's Barbie Be the Highest-Grossing Live-Action Film of 2023 in North America?

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Greta Gerwig's Barbie grossed $162 million in its opening weekend in North America. Once upon a time a merely respectable sum for a maj...

A Surprising Positive Review of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

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The film critic David Walsh has reviewed for his publication Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Dunkirk (2017) and...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Mission: Impossible 7's Second Weekend at the Box Office: How Did the Movie Do?

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Boxoffice Pro estimated that Mission: Impossible--Dead Reckoning, Part One would see its Friday-to-Sunday gross fall 53 percent from the f...

Oppenheimer's First Weekend at the Box Office

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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer now looks to finish its run with about $80 million grossed domestically in its first three days. Even...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Captain Marvel 2's Prospects: Revisiting the Box Office Prediction

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The new trailer for The Marvels is out . My thoughts: in contrast with the prior trailer, which frankly made the movie look a bit cheap, ...

Some Thoughts on the "Barbenheimer" Nonsense

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Considering the summer's films here I have had little to say about either Barbie , or Oppenheimer --in large part because I have so much...
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Courtesy of Forbes: A Negative Review of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

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As anyone attentive to the press for the film is well aware, the critics and the entertainment press generally are in full claqueur mode wh...

About Those Oppenheimer Posters . . .

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A little while ago I discussed here my views of Christopher Nolan's strengths and weaknesses that left me with low expectations for his ...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Mission: Impossible 7 (Mission: Impossible--Dead Reckoning, Part One)--What Does its Opening Weekend Gross Tell Us About its Longer-Run Prospects?

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I previously made an estimate of Mission: Impossible 7's likely global box office gross . Working off of the grosses of past installment...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Indiana Jones 5's Second Weekend Box Office Gross

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Looking at Boxoffice Pro 's estimate for the second weekend take of Indiana Jones 5 (a 53 percent drop to $28.6 million) I thought their...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Sixth Weekend: The Movie Becomes the #1 Superhero Film of 2023 at the North American Box Office

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Ant-Man 3 , Shazam 2 and The Flash all flopped hard this year, making it easy enough for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to blast rig...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Indiana Jones 5's First Five Days in Release--and the Upcoming Weekend

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As noted here Indiana Jones 5 has had its debut-- taking in some $60 million domestically during its first three days , and perhaps $84 mill...