Friday, April 19, 2024

Movies

Box Office: “Super Mario” Rakes in $204 Over Five Days, “Air” Takes Flight Before Streaming Debut, Audiences Return to Theaters

It was the Easter weekend of movie theater audiences. If "Top Gun Maverick" saved the business last year, this time around it's "Super Mario Brothers." Ridiculous...

Review: “Chantilly Bridge,” a Female “Big Chill” Meets “Boyhood,” A Sensitive Portrait of the Passing of Time with Ally Sheedy, Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry

If "The Golden Girls" weren’t a sitcom, or if "The Big Chill" had an all-female cast, they might look like Linda Yellen’s new movie...

Box Office: “Super Mario” Astonishing $55 Mil Friday Points to Stunning $200 Mil Easter Parade

Give the people what they want. Universal Pictures has certainly done just that with "The Super Mario Brothers Movie." Last night, Mario and Luigi brought...

Box Office Bomb: Music Bio Film “Spinning Gold” Had a Shorter Life than Its Subject, Record Label Chief Neil Bogart

Last week, "Spinning Gold" -- about the short, hot career of record label exec Neil Bogart -- played in 775 theaters. This week, it's down...

New “Star Wars” Movie Will Pick Up Where Last One Ended, with Daisy Ridley as Rey, from Female Director

"Star Wars" is coming back. The next film will star Daisy Ridley again as Rey, and be directed by a woman, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Steven Knight...

Trailer: Harrison Ford Returns for a Fifth Indiana Jones Film, Phoebe Waller Bridge is His Goddaughter in Final (?) Thriller

Indiana Jones is back in his fifth and maybe final thriller, "The Dial of Destiny." Phoebe Waller-Bridge is his goddaughter, a female "Indy," which may...

Box Office: Super Numbers for Animated Super Mario Brothers $31 Mil Opening Night Despite Terrible Reviews

Well, what can you say? If the audience wants to see a movie, they will find it. Last night, "Super Mario Brothers" made $31 million....

Box Office: Excellent Ben Affleck-Matt Damon Nike “Air” Gets Decent Start But Misses Passover Audience

Why hast night different from all other nights? Ben Affleck's "Air" starring Matt Damon and Viola Davis opened last night, on a Wednesday. And...