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For those interested in the commercial side of filmmaking Deadline 's annual Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament always provides plent...

Naked Gun 33 1/3rd: The Final Insult is not the kind of film that tends to be accorded much of a place in cinematic history, but it still s...

I remember when I first heard about the plans for a The Fall Guy feature film I was dubious about the project--not only its chances of prod...

The premise behind the English composition class is that it will equip the student entering it to read and write at the level they need to i...

The Oscar nominations are out. The big surprise is that Barbie , while having eight nominations including Best Picture, two acting nominat...

Last year Arnold Schwarzenegger (you know, the slap-fighting promoter ) blamed the problems of the Terminator film franchise on the later fi...

Recently discussing Ridley Scott's track record as a maker of historical epics I went with my own impressions of his movies, and what se...

In considering the answer to the question that is the title of this post I think it fair to say that, as one always deriding the generality ...

The press has been abuzz with talk of 2023 having been a $9 billion year for Hollywood . This sounds better than it really is. Every yea...

I recently wrote about the box office of 2023 as, if entailing a measure of improvement over the preceding year, still leaving Hollywood, in...

Recently revising the essay collection A Century of Spy Fiction (the second edition of that book is now out) I had occasion to think specif...

We are hearing now that Top Gun 3 is in the works . Back in the summer of 2022 this looked like an obvious move. It looks less obvious n...

According to Variety The Marvels is now available on Apple+ and Amazon Prime--scarcely two months after it hit theaters . How has the mo...

Of all the superhero film franchises we have seen in this century (and they are many ) perhaps the most consistently successful, especially ...

Joaquim Phoenix's performance as Napoleon in the recent Ridley Scott biopic has got a good deal of attention for, among much else, Phoen...