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Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales & Baywatch posters

Can Depp and His Salty Crew Make The Rock and the Baywatch Babes Walk the Plank This Memorial Day Holiday? This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

There’s star power galore coming to a multiplex near you this Memorial Day weekend with stars such as Johnny Depp, Dwayne Johnson, Javier Bardem and Zac Efron, to name but a few. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and “Baywatch” try to lure moviegoers away from their barbeques for so…

Wonderstruck Director Todd Haynes at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

“Wonderstruck” Director Todd Haynes Defends Amazon Studios at the Cannes Film Festival

Just one day after filmmaker Pedro Almodovar and actor Will Smith debated whether Netflix should be permitted to have films premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival if they the movies will never been seen in cinemas, director Todd Haynes came to the defense of Amazon’s subscription stream…

Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Pedro Almodovar at Cannes 2017

Cannes Film Festival Jury Answers The Netflix Question

Hanging over the start of the Cannes Film Festival today was the incessant discussion over the selection of two films produced by Netflix to appear in competition. It was all anyone attending Cannes, and especially those that aren’t, could talk about. So it was inevitable that this year’s Cannes jur…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Long Haul Alien Covenant Everything Everything posters

Guardians Grab Galactic 2nd Week but an Alien Invasion is on the Horizon. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

“I was surprised that Guardians of the Galaxy won the weekend”, said absolutely no one on the face of the planet. The Marvel gang’s second weekend of USD $63 million brought the film’s overall gross to USD $246 million and easily outdistanced this past weekend’s two new openers. Then again, we use t…

The Wall King Arthur Snatched posters

Guardians Rock the Galaxy and Now Turn Their Attention to Amy, Goldie and a Legend Named Arthur. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

Chris Pratt and his menagerie of Guardians came in slightly below most projections (including our own USD $160 million) but hey, USD $145 million is nothing to sneeze at and this second effort outgrossed the original by a hefty 54% and when’s the last time that could be said? And here’s something e…

Chris Dodd of the MPAA

Why Chris Dodd Stepping Down From MPAA Should Not Have Come as a Surprise

When Chris Dodd announced last week that he would be stepping down as President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) later this year, it came more as a confirmation of the denouement industry insiders had begun to suspect, rather than a completely unexpected surprise. In mid-March, wh…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Here They Come to Save the Day!!! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Marks the Start of Hollywood Summer. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

Forget about the calendar, summer actually begins in North America this coming Thursday night when previews of “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2” come to a multiplex near you. But we’ll get to that in a bit. As for this past weekend there were a couple of nice surprises for an industry treading water…

Sleight, How to be a Latin Lover, The Circle posters

The Calm Before the Guardians Storm as It’s Another Weekend of Less-Than-Unforgettable Titles on The Horizon. This Coming Weekend at The Boxoffice

To the surprise of absolutely no one (not named Katherine Heigl), none of the new openers this past weekend were any match for the second weekend of “The Fate of the Furious”. The eighth edition of the high octane franchise took in another USD $38 million at the boxoffice on 4,329 screens. That scre…

Free Fire, Born in China, Unforgettable posters

Disney Pandas, Gun Totting 70s Gangsters and Lovestruck Armenians No Match For Record Breaking-ish F8

The Fate of the Furious was clearly to make box office history – though only abroad, as the F8 sequel fell short of the last high octane outing in North America, taking a drop over USD $100 million (USD $100.2 million to be precise), compared to USD $147.2 million for “Furious 7” and thus fall…

F8, Gifted, Lost City of Z

Moviegoers Primed for a Furious Easter Holiday. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

“Boss Baby” continued its boxoffice dominance this past weekend as all three newcomers performed exactly as CJ predicted last Monday. The best, and I do use that word loosely, of the bunch was Sony’s “Smurfs: Lost Village” which hobbled its way to a USD $14 million debut. The launch was yet another…