Tuesday, September 24, 2024

How Big a Profit Might It Ends with Us Turn in the End?

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As I remarked after seeing last year's list of the most profitable films, we may increasingly see the biggest profit-makers prove to not...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

How Will the News Media Cover the Last Weeks of the Presidential Campaign of 2024?

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Last year the Columbia Journalism Review published an article discussing a quantitative examination of the last two months of the coverage ...

Declining Movie Ticket Sales and the Decline of the Middle Class

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In the decade after the onset of the Great Recession North American movie ticket sales dropped from 4-5 a year per capita to 3-4 a year--and...

Of the Word "Upset"

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It seems common to define the word "upset," when used in the sense of a person's emotional state, as a synonym for "unhap...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Boxoffice Pro Has Put Out its Estimate for Joker's Opening

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Boxoffice Pro has put out its estimate for Joker 's opening weekend gross. Their forecast currently stands at $115-$145 million--whic...

Does it Change Anything if Arthur Fleck isn't the Real Joker?

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Considering the possibility, or even likelihood, that we are not supposed to take Arthur Fleck as the "real" Joker, it seems natur...

Why Do "We" Care About How Much Movies Cost?

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Apparently the budget of Joker 2 has been the subject of some critical comment--specifically because it was (reportedly) much larger than t...

The Possibility That Arthur Fleck is Not the Real Joker: Some Thoughts

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While Todd Phillips has dropped hints that Arthur Fleck's "Joker" may not be the real Joker since 2019 , the hints have grown ...

This Summer Kevin Bacon . . . Discovers What Everyone Else Knows

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Back when publicizing his horror film MaXXXine (it came out in July) actor Kevin Bacon claimed to have had a special effects makeup artist ...

The Box Office Run of It Ends With Us: A Few Thoughts

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Boxoffice Pro 's first projection for It Ends with Us had it opening in the $20-$30 million range . However, they revised their estimat...

The Summer 2024 Box Office: How Did it Go?

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How did the summer of 2024 as a whole go at the box office? The four month period saw theaters take in about $3.59 billion (and only margina...

The August 2024 Box Office

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August was, by 2024 standards, a fairly good month for the North American movie box office--only the second month this year to overtop the g...

What Will the Fall Movie Season Bring?

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Last year, in the wake of the weak audience response to many franchise films intended for blockbusterdom, and the thinning of this year'...

Is a Celebrity Obliged to be a Good Role Model?

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Is a celebrity obliged to be a good role model? I admit that it's not the sort of question to which I am much inclined to give time, a...

The Astonishing Staying Power of Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4

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Initially making my prediction for Inside Out 2 's gross I suggested the $600-$850 million range for where it would finish up. As I wri...