Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Movies

Looming: A Return to An All White Oscars as Fall Season Has Few Potential Black Nominees

Uh oh. After such a great year this past year with making the Academy more multicultural, trouble is on the horizon. There are few potential black...

Tom Cruise’s “American Made” Won’t Be Saving the U.S. Box Office, Meets Tepid Response Abroad in Slow Release

Tom Cruise's new movie had what you could only call a soft opening this weekend. "American Made" hasn't been released in America yet-- and...

Total Box Office $65 Million on Lowest Weekend of 2017 and Maybe Of All Time

The total box office for the weekend? $65 million. That's for all the movies in release this weekend, from the number 1 "Hitman's Bodyguard"...

Box Office: Digital Finally Does to Movie Biz What It Did to Records– Lowest Numbers Ever

I took a while. but this is the summer when digital delivery did to the movie business what it already did to the record...

NY Film Fest Docs Get Personal: Griffin Dunne on Aunt Joan Didion, Rebecca Miller on Dad Arthur Miller

Very exciting list of docs for the New York Film Fest. Among them. Griffin Dunne on his aunt, Joan Didion; and Rebecca Miller on...

Box Office Update: “Logan Lucky” Collapse, Marvel Comics So-Called Reunion Soft Number 1

Box office update: "Hitman's Bodyguard" made $21 million over the weekend and finished at number 1. That's a very soft number 1. The only...

Box Office Calamity: Panned “Hitman’s Bodyguard” Does Three Times the Biz of Loved “Logan Lucky”

"Logan Lucky" is Steven Soderbergh's comeback film with Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig (James Bond, for goodness sake) and a neat cast. On Rotten Tomatoes...

Review: “Leap!” Has a Laugh Out Loud Mel Brooks and Kate McKinnon in Three Delicious Roles

"Leap!"—directed by Eric Summer and Eric Warin-- is a clever Swan Lake for kids with lush animation. But it's also a lot of fun for adults....