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Box Office - Murder on the Orient Express, Daddys Home 2, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

It’s Hammer Time as Thor Smashes November Records While Moms’ Moms Party It Up. This Weekend at the Box Office.

This week Jim Amos is taking a well-deserved brake, having been proven right to be very bullish about “Thor: Ragnarok” and predicting the “A Bad Moms Christmas” box office haul to within a rounding error. Instead it falls to conductors and porters J. Sperling Reich and Patric…

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Why Disney Can Demand 65% of Box Office for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Just when North American cinema operators looked forward to having blockbuster films like “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” come along and boost a box office that has sagged in the second half of 2017, along comes Disney to squash any such dreams. Make no mistake, it’s not that these f…

“Suburbicon” Plunges Into Box Office Sinkhole While “Jigsaw” Lacks Teeth With Ho-Hum $16 Million Debut. This Weekend at the Box Office.

There is a famous 1980s era photo of one solitary baseball fan sitting in the far upper reaches of cavernous Municipal Stadium in Cleveland where the (then) sad sack Indians used to play their baseball games. It’s clear that there isn’t a single soul within another time zone of him. We probably coul…

Box Office - Jigsaw, Thank You For Your Service, Suburbicon

Madea Rises Above the October Morass for Tyler Perry’s Sixth #1 Opening. This Weekend at the Box Office.

Well at least one part of this fairly wretched weekend at the box office went according to plan. Tyler Perry donned the makeup, dusted off the body pillows and went back to the well yet again for his sixth #1 opening as “Boo! 2” nabbed a $21.6 million opening, easily holding off all comers thisRead…

Box Office - Boo 2, Only The Brave, Geostorm

Blumhouse’s “Death Day” a Happy $26 Million Surprise, Leaving “Blade Runner 2049” in the Dust. This Weekend at the Box Office.

OK gang, show of hands. As late as a month ago who among us thought that the latest Blumhouse horror title, “Happy Death Day”, would easily topple the second weekend of “Blade Runner 2049?” (Blumhouse and Universal employees, you don’t count so put your hands down.) “Happy Death Day” turned out to b…

Box Office - Happy Death Day, The Foreigner, Marshall

“Blade Runner 2049” Proves You Can’t Go Home Again After $31 Million Debut. This Weekend at the Box Office.

Hopefully Meat Loaf won’t mind me slightly editing his song title in order to best sum up this past weekend at the box office. “None Out of Three Is Bad”. The long gestating “Blade Runner” sequel underperformed to the tone deaf tune of $31.5 million (and didn’t exactly light the international box of…

Box Office - Blade Runner 2049, Mountain Between Us, My Little Pony

“It” Edges Out Cruise and Kinsgman for Another Weekly Win, While “Flatliners” Suffers Cardiac Arrest. This Week at the Box Office.

Much like Flounder in “Animal House” rubbing his hands together near the end of the movie and screaming, “This is gonna be great!,” it’s always amusing to watch the game of high stakes studio chess when we have weekends like this one where there’s a battle for the top spot at the box office. AndRead…

Box Office - American Made, Battle of the Sexes, Flatliners

“Kingsman” and “LEGO” Take a Knee on Their Way to Middling Openings While the “It” Express Keeps On Rolling. This Week at the Box Office.

Well September certainly has provided more thrills and chills than a Six Flags roller coaster, hasn’t it? During the first week of the month there were unconfirmed rumors of tumbleweeds blowing through multiplexes, then “It” charged onto the scene like bulls in Pamplona on the second weekend leaving…

"Wonder Woman" Gal Gaddot. (image: Warner Bros)

Is 2017 The Year of The Woman in Hollywood?

By Boyd Falconer, PhD and Jim Amos Sometimes we pull a muscle patting ourselves on the back when even the smallest amount of change occurs. Lost two pounds in six months? Yes, let’s celebrate with ravioli. Managed to clean half the garage? That calls for a nap. 2017 is being heralded as The Yea…

“It” Blitzes Competition With $60 Million Second Stanza While JLaw’s “mother!” Flunks Out. Now Can “It” Threepeat? This Weekend at the Boxoffice.

To quote the great Peter Noone, second verse same as the first. WB/NL’s “It” easily romped to the top of the boxoffice again this weekend, scoring a massive USD $60 million in ticket sales in North America alone, propelling it to $218 million overall here in the States, which by the way makes it the…