8 years ago
Misc (10 posts found)
“Toy Story 4” Is Coming Because Nothing Is Sacred
It feels like it might be too easy and knee-jerk reactionary to trash on this bit of news, but come, how can I not? Sometimes the low-hanging fruit is the tastiest. It's like the greedy and dark side of franchise filmmaking has finally made its way to my entir...
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Weekend Box Office: The Calm Before The Storm
A Friday Halloween usually means a pretty slow weekend at the box office, what with everyone out in costume trick or treating and getting drunk. It's also a weird weekend in that horror movies that typically dominate October drop off hard once the spooky seaso...
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Michael Bay Setting Up Benghazi Movie “13 Hours”
My name is Dylan Moses Griffin, and I am a fan of Michael Bay. I'm not even saying that in some sort of ironic sense, the guy's films entertain the hell out of me. Yeah, I know 2/4 of his Transformers films are awful - the first one is appropriate for what a T...
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Weekend Box Office: Yeah, The Board Game Movie Won
Who would have thought that Hasbro would be one of the top players in the mainstream blockbuster movie game? As of 2014, only one of their movies has been a flop (Battleship), and this weekend's movie choice, Ouija, seemed like the most surefire flop, given th...
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James Wan Returning to Direct “The Conjuring 2”
James Wan is getting busy. He's got the next installment of the Fast & Furious franchise in Fast & Furious 7 coming out next year, and although he had previously talked about "graduating" from the horror genre after Insidious: Chapter 2 he has thankful...
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Weekend Box Office: Sound and Fury
The October box office continues to chug along swimmingly, with most of the new releases doing very good business and the old releases still holding on strong. After two weeks in the number one slot, Gone Girl finally fell to number two, although it only fell ...
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DC Announces Release Date Lineup For the Next Six Years
Maybe it's just me getting old, but I'm starting to get fatigued by all these superhero films. Nevertheless DC has announced we will have plenty of theirs to watch over the next 6 years and some of it actually excites me, to my own surprise. Check out the news...
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Weekend Box Office: Gone Again
The weekend brought a glut of new releases to the multiplexes and art theaters, but it was David Fincher's Gone Girl that remained on top for the second weekend in a row, grossing $26.8 million for a $78.2 million total. Great word of mouth and great reviews k...
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Weekend Box Office: Gone September Box Office Blues
The box office came out of the September doldrums in full force this weekend, with the top two movies powering the weekend to a 23 percent higher weekend than the same period last year, and the highest overall weekend ever for October. The number one movie was...
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Weekend Box Office: Star Power Still Exists
It seems like so long ago when A-list stars could open a movie all by themselves, all the way back there in the 1990's. And yet, a couple of those stars still survive and are still able to open movies on their name alone. One such star, Denzel Washington, had ...
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