Oscar Nominations 2019: ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ Lead with 10 Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!

The Oscar nominations are here at last. It’s been a whirlwind of an awards season packed with plenty of drama and controversy after controversy. It has also been one of the most unpredictable seasons in recent memory, with the field wide open in a number of categories. Roma and The Favourite picked up the most nominations of any film with 10 nods each, including Best … Continue reading Oscar Nominations 2019: ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ Lead with 10 Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!

‘Halloween’ Repeats #1, While ‘Hunter Killer’ Sinks at the BO!!

The weekend played out mostly as expected with a repeat of last weekend’s top four films, led by Universal‘s Halloween, which has now delivered over $126 million in just ten days in release. Lionsgate‘s release of Summit‘s Hunter Killer led the week’s new wide releases with a top five finish while A24‘s expansion of Jonah Hill‘s Mid90s secured a top ten finish. The biggest news, … Continue reading ‘Halloween’ Repeats #1, While ‘Hunter Killer’ Sinks at the BO!!

‘Halloween’ Slices Up a Huge $77.5 Million Opening at the BO!!!

With a staggering, $77.5 million debut, Universal and Blumhouse‘s Halloween topped the weekend with the second largest October opening weekend of all-time. The horror film headlined a massive weekend overall weekend, that saw the top twelve combine for over $160 million, making this the second largest October weekend ever. As already mentioned, Halloween’s $77.5 million three-day debut was the second largest October opening weekend of … Continue reading ‘Halloween’ Slices Up a Huge $77.5 Million Opening at the BO!!!

‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes While Grand Prix Goes to Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’!!

There were a lot of winners at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The top prize went to Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda for his movie Shoplifters, “a moving portrait of an self-made family scraping by at the bottom of Japanese society.” Although the Palme d’Or isn’t a reliable awards barometer like the people’s choice award at TIFF, it still gives a movie a level of recognition … Continue reading ‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes While Grand Prix Goes to Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’!!