Tag: box office
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Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible opens to $79 million – but why didn’t it open bigger at the box office?
The last time I wrote in this blog, it was last year, as Top Gun Maverick was soaring past $700 million in the U.S. I asked the question then, “Can Tom Cruise be stopped?”, and, well, the answer to that question might exist sooner than I thought. Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible film opened with…
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DC Films Leadership – James Gunn and Peter Safran now CEOS – how did this happen, and what could this mean?
James Gunn had a very great day yesterday, showing that getting FIRED from Disney 4 years ago, ironically, led to the best possible career jump he could have ever had.
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Studios Winners and Losers: Before and After COVID
With no new blockbuster releases planned for the next few weeks, I thought it would be fun to take a moment to breakdown how the box office is so far for 2022, and to compare the 4 major studios (Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney). So let’s compare their performances from 2019 (the last “normal”…
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Weekend Box Office (7/24/22) Nope flies to $44 million debut, nice for an original thriller
Universal and Monkeypaw’s Nope flew off to a promising start, as the well-reviewed (83% on Rotten Tomatoes) and *mostly* well-received by audiences (B from CinemaScore – okay for a Horror movie) Jordan Peele adventure earned $44 million over its opening weekend. It’s far less than Jordan Peele’s last film, Us (that opened to $71…
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Weekend Box Office (7/4/22) It’s Official! COVID may no longer be a problem for moviegoers
Hollywood has been worried and biting their lip since COVID about if older adults (55+), and especially kids and families, will return to theaters with the pandemic, especially given the availability of streaming. And now, we’ve just had Top Gun 2, and Minions 2 of all movies, break box office records over Memorial Day and…
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