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‘Oppenheimer’ Sweeps the Oscars 2024!! Check Out the Full List of Winners!!

At the 2024 Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer took home the most Oscars of the evening, including the coveted wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. While Oppenheimer‘s domination was predicted, there was one major upset this evening: Best Actress. After a highly competitive award … Continue reading ‘Oppenheimer’ Sweeps the Oscars 2024!! Check Out the Full List of Winners!!

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Box Office

‘Argylle’ Suffers Huge Drop as ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Opens Decently at the BO!!

How bad was this year’s Super Bowl weekend? Realize that Kenneth Branagh’s romance mystery misfire, Death on the Nile, opened to more over the Big Game weekend ($12.8M) two years ago, and that’s when female moviegoers were scared of Omicron! Super Bowl weekend, despite its damper on Sunday business, used to be a box office frame that could still yield results, even for films aimed … Continue reading ‘Argylle’ Suffers Huge Drop as ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Opens Decently at the BO!!

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American Fiction (2023) Review!!

Synopsis – A novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. My Take – Indeed, we live in weird times, even though society is becoming more accepting of minorities, it is also unintentionally marginalizing them by continuing to perpetuate stereotypes. … Continue reading American Fiction (2023) Review!!

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‘Argylle’ Bombs with $18M Opening at the BO!!

While the theatrical marketplace is starving for big movies post-strike, Apple Original Films‘ $200M pick-up of Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle isn’t cutting it with a $18M domestic/$35M global start, C+ CinemaScore, and 3 stars on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. At the end of the day, this multi-supporting actor and actress ensemble isn’t provoking people to drive in their cars to cinemas. Yeah, yeah, that’s about where tracking … Continue reading ‘Argylle’ Bombs with $18M Opening at the BO!!

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‘The Beekeeper’ Steals Top Spot from ‘Mean Girls’ at the BO!!

Boring weekends always make for intense times at the box office, and this morning, Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper is looking to steal Paramount’s Mean Girls‘ honey in a third weekend call of $7.4M to $7.3M between the two films. Even if one does the math on both films, Beekeeper has a shot to squeeze ahead by literally a matter of cents. However, all of this … Continue reading ‘The Beekeeper’ Steals Top Spot from ‘Mean Girls’ at the BO!!

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‘Oppenheimer’ Leads Oscar Nominations 2024!! Check Out the Full List!!

Oppenheimer leads the 2024 Oscar nominations, were revealed Tuesday morning. The film nabbed a total of 13 noms, followed by Poor Things with 11, Killers of the Flower Moon with 10 and Barbie with eight. All four films will compete for best picture of the year, along with American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Maestro, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest. Zazie … Continue reading ‘Oppenheimer’ Leads Oscar Nominations 2024!! Check Out the Full List!!

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Comedy, Drama, Trailers

‘American Fiction’: New Trailer Showcases the Familial Side of the Jeffrey Wright led Comedy!! Check It Out!!

Synopsis – Author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is peeved because his latest offering hasn’t caught fire with publishers, while a tome called We’s Lives in Da Ghetto by Sintara Golden hits the bestseller lists, leaving Monk seething. Directed – Cord Jefferson Starring – Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, John Ortiz Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘American Fiction’: New Trailer Showcases the Familial Side of the Jeffrey Wright led Comedy!! Check It Out!!

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‘Wonka’ Debuts with Sweet $39M at the BO!!

Wonka had a very strong hold on Saturday with $14M, just -3% off from Friday/Thursday previews’ $14.4M resulting in an estimated $39M opening, which is slightly north of the $35.3M start that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did back in the same mid-December slot in 2018. For family movies opening at this point in time, it’s a marathon, not a sprint, and there’s a lot of … Continue reading ‘Wonka’ Debuts with Sweet $39M at the BO!!

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‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations!! Check Out the Full List!!

The full list of nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards has been released. Per Deadline, the nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards were officially announced on December 10, 2023. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie led the pack with a total of nine nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with eight. Trailing only slightly behind were Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and … Continue reading ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations!! Check Out the Full List!!

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‘American Fiction’ Trailer Sees Jeffrey Wright’s Frustrated Novelist Faking His Way to Fame!! Check It Out!!

Synopsis – Author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is peeved because his latest offering hasn’t caught fire with publishers, while a tome called We’s Lives in Da Ghetto by Sintara Golden hits the bestseller lists, leaving Monk seething. Directed – Cord Jefferson Starring – Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, John Ortiz Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘American Fiction’ Trailer Sees Jeffrey Wright’s Frustrated Novelist Faking His Way to Fame!! Check It Out!!

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‘Marsh King’s Daughter’ Moves Release Date to Avoid Taylor Swift Concert Film Clash!!

Taylor Swift‘s upcoming Eras concert film has other productions fleeing from its path. The latest to shift for Swift is The Marsh King’s Daughter, which will move back a month. Deadline reports that the Daisy Ridley-led drama, originally set to premiere on October 6, is being pushed back to November 3, to make way for the concert film. Since the surprise announcement of Taylor Swift: … Continue reading ‘Marsh King’s Daughter’ Moves Release Date to Avoid Taylor Swift Concert Film Clash!!

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‘American Fiction’: First Images Reveal Jeffrey Wright’s Frustrated Novelist!! Check It Out!!

Cord Jefferson‘s directorial debut American Fiction is set to make its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The movie stars Jeffrey Wright as a writer challenging the norms society, and new images have been released to preview the story to come. The images give us a peak into the bright and fun world created by Jefferson. In one image, Issa Rae is … Continue reading ‘American Fiction’: First Images Reveal Jeffrey Wright’s Frustrated Novelist!! Check It Out!!

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