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Deadpool & Wolverine followed up its record-breaking domestic debut ( revised up to $211 million from the initially reported $205 mill...

The summer saw its share of tepid, or worse, franchise performers back in May and June--Planet of the Apes, Mad Max , Bad Boys . July added ...

As Upton Sinclair tells us in 1923's The Goose-Step it was his intention to write just one book on education in America. However, the ...

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

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

As a decades-later follow-up to a "disaster movie" blockbuster from the summer of 1996, Twisters 2 ( Twisters ) invites comparison...

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 ...

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

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

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 performance at the box office continues to be sensational. Just the past week saw the film surpass two more milestones--...

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

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

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...

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...