Friday, May 3, 2024

Movies

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....

Trouble: New Tom Cruise Movie “American Made” Opens Worldwide Starting This Week, US Not Til End of September

My friends, there is trouble in River City. Or make that, Universal City. Tom Cruise's new movie, "American Made," is opening this week. Only, not...

Review: “The Only Living Boy in New York” Features a Little Simon & Garfunkel and a Rogues’ Gallery of Hip New Yorkers

In "Baby Driver," the whole  musical pay off to the film is Simon & Garfunkel's title song at the end. Not so in the...