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People often use the term "soap opera" to refer to a kind of storytelling, but it seems to me they rarely spell out what they mean...

Initially considering the prospects of the Hunger Games prequel I was pessimistic--expecting this to be another case of a formerly hugely su...

When back in early March box office-watchers were realizing that, after its sensational opening weekend, Ant-Man 3's ticket sales were g...

Robert Iger, who seems scarcely able to open his mouth without disgracing himself, recently did so again with a silly statement about the la...

I wrote this after the first weekend but I was delayed in putting it up. Here it is anyway--with an update. BoxOffice Pro projected for W...

I recall running across a gripe session on a discussion board among people annoyed with the trope of a zombie apocalypse scenario where the ...

Considering the issue of social withdrawal I have generally found myself looking at reports on the matter from or about Japan , and discussi...

Read much about writers with any amount of attention and you will come across quite the number who claim that they never rewrite their own w...

I recall years ago happening on the Teen Titans, Go! episode "Nostalgia is Not a Substitute for an Actual Story." For the most p...

The title of this post makes the point--Star Wars was not, and could never have been, the second Marvel Cinematic Universe-style hit machine...

Looking at the superhero films of this year one may note that Ant-Man 3 underperformed , but the domestic drop was actually mild (about a si...

Last month I speculated about whether Ridley Scott's Napoleon had the makings of another Oppenheimer --as another historical biopic tha...

A month before release the expectations for the Hunger Games prequel ( Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ) were low --disma...

Last week Boxoffice Pro predicted a relatively gentle drop in Captain Marvel 2's weekend gross after the collapse seen in the movie...

Captain Marvel 2, reportedly the season's most anticipated film, opened earlier this month to just $47 million domestically --and then p...