Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine's Opening Weekend Gross, and What it Means for Marvel--and Hollywood

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As pretty much everyone who follows these things at all expected , not just the entertainment press but the mainstream press is singing th...

The Narrative of Twisters' Success

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In hailing Twisters a success the press is telling a story that goes as follows: Those liberal coastal elitists out in Lalaland usually ign...

Twister 2 vs. Independence Day 2

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As a decades-later follow-up to a "disaster movie" blockbuster from the summer of 1996, Twisters 2 ( Twisters ) invites comparison...
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Variety's "Insiders" on Mad Max: Furiosa's Break-Even Point: Some Notes

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In speculating about what it would take for some of this summer's movies to reach the break-even point I was, of course, offering rough ...

Twisters' Second Weekend

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The press is singing the "success" of Twisters at the box office very loudly. But how does this compare to the reality? In it...

Despicable Me 4: The Box Office Performance the Entertainment Press Doesn't Want to Talk About

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These days the entertainment press is absolutely ecstatic about the box office performance of Inside Out 2 -- a genuine, massive, commercial...

The Importance of Opening Weekend

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Does Hollywood pay too much attention to opening weekends? That is the implication of the title of an article that ran in Variety last mo...

Inside Out 2's Box Office Success: A Few More Thoughts

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Inside Out 2 's performance at the box office continues to be sensational. Just the past week saw the film surpass two more milestones--...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine Comes Out This Weekend

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Back in June we first heard of tracking-based forecasts of a $200 million+ opening weekend for Deadpool & Wolverine . Subsequently Boxof...

Some Thoughts on the Prospects of the American Box Office in Late 2024

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Earlier this year I speculated here about, among other films, Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine (which I was then calling Deadpool...

Second Thoughts About the Second Joker Film?

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The original Joker back in 2019 was an exceedingly idiosyncratic film in many ways--an origin story not for a superhero but for a supervill...

Inside Out 2 is Quadrupling its Opening Weekend Take

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About a week ago I remarked the very good holds that Inside Out 2 had enjoyed from week to week , in spite of the way its big opening would...

Looking Back: Pauline Kael in the Temple of Cinema's Doom (Some Words About Her Old Review of Raiders of the Lost Ark)

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Reading Pauline Kael's review of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's cinematic milestone The Raiders of the Lost Ark ("Whipped...

Are Glorified Autocompletes Going to War?

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Ever since the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) became "hot" again in late 2022 we have been inundated with coverage of any a...

"Method to His Madness"

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I have always disliked the phrase "method to his madness" and the assorted variations on it. This has, I think, nothing whatsoever...