Rotten Tomatoes Names ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ as the Best Film of 2022!!

Rotten Tomatoes has named Top Gun: Maverick the Best Film Of 2022, Deadline reports. The Tom Cruise-led feature holds a special place in fans’ hearts for so many reasons. It brought back their favorite character thirty years after the first movie came out, it hits the right emotional note with its emotional core and chemistry between Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Goose’s son Rooster (played by … Continue reading Rotten Tomatoes Names ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ as the Best Film of 2022!!

2023 Oscars Shortlists Unveiled in 10 Categories!! Check It Out!!

We’re starting to enter awards season and the Academy has released its shortlists in a few key categories ahead of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12. The lists show off the most-likely nominees in ten categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, International Feature, Live Action Short, Animated Short, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music Score, Original Song, Sound, and Visual Effects. All nominees will be unveiled on … Continue reading 2023 Oscars Shortlists Unveiled in 10 Categories!! Check It Out!!

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Sets November Box Office Record with $180 Million Debut at the BO!!

Disney and Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is settling in at a $180M opening, and there is absolutely nothing to complain about. The MCU title unseats the previous November opening champ, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which held the month’s domestic box office opening record for nine years. Wakanda arrived slightly higher than Disney and tracking’s $175M+ estimate. Exhibition were the ones projecting … Continue reading ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Sets November Box Office Record with $180 Million Debut at the BO!!

‘Black Adam’ Continues to Top Slow Weekend with $18.5M at the BO!!

Before Disney/Marvel’s Wakanda Forever comes in and does $175M-$200M next weekend, providing a complete rebirth to the domestic box office, don’t knock New Line’s Black Adam this weekend which had a fantastic hold of -33% for a third weekend of $18.5M. Total running domestic cume stands at $137.4M. Some rivals have snarked to me about the big cost for this movie at $200M before P&A, … Continue reading ‘Black Adam’ Continues to Top Slow Weekend with $18.5M at the BO!!

‘Black Adam’ Tops Sluggish Halloween Weekend with $27.7M at the Box Office!!

Halloween adjacent weekends have rarely been good ones at the box office, and even less so during the pandemic, when there aren’t a lot of solid movies in cinemas. Saturday night is largely party night, not movie night. All titles this weekend are expected to gross $69M, just 7% up from last year’s $64.3M, but at a great drop from last weekend, when New Line/DC’s … Continue reading ‘Black Adam’ Tops Sluggish Halloween Weekend with $27.7M at the Box Office!!

‘Halloween Ends’ Opens with Lower than Expected $41.2M at the BO!!

There’s about $10M missing from the current theatrical marketplace this weekend. Projections for Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax/Trancas’ Halloween Ends were expected to come in around $55M and the 13th sequel in the franchise originally created by John Carpenter is settling at $41.2M after a $13M Saturday, off 36% from $20.4M Friday and previews. Clearly tracking didn’t account for the theatrical-day-and-date factor. Uni says the movie is the most … Continue reading ‘Halloween Ends’ Opens with Lower than Expected $41.2M at the BO!!

‘Till’: Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till Feature Gets a First Poster!! Check It Out!!

Today, a telling and heart-wrenching poster has been released for the Chinonye Chukwu feature, Till. The film will tell the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler), a mother willing to do anything for her son no matter how great the cost. The story will be centered around the brutal and racist, hate-filled murder of Till-Mobley’s young son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall). The story of … Continue reading ‘Till’: Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till Feature Gets a First Poster!! Check It Out!!