Tag: Box Office
Here’s the Trailer for the Chinese Movie That Has Now Made More Than Avatar
According to Forbes, Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 is now bigger at the Chinese box office than the domestic total for Avatar. Wait, what? Ugh. Math. Basically, you know how our biggest movie of all […]
The Fallout From the Summer of Pain: Suffering Movie Theaters, Spooked Film Financiers, Contraction & China Anxiety
I feel like I’ve written this article before. In fact, I know I have. In the 5 years of this site’s existence, I’ve written the obituary for the film industry multiple times. The sky, it […]
Box Office: Detroit and Atomic Blonde Illustrate the Limits of Treating Ticket-Buying Decisions as Social Activism
Failure, not success, will be the true arbiter of the future of Hollywood’s diversity initiative. Hit movies happen all the time for a variety of reasons, usually coming down to some hard-to-replicate combination of being […]
Box Office: Wonder Woman Is Now the Most Resilient Superhero Movie Since the First Spider-Man
Wonder Woman is kind of a big deal. You don’t need to know anything about the film’s box office performance to know that. Simply browse social media, drop in on some podcasts, check out a […]
Box Office: Has Summer 2017 Already Peaked?
As I left Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 I had a Jack Nicholson moment, thinking to myself: What if Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is as good as it gets for movies this summer? […]
Box Office: Here Are the Trailers for the 5 New Movies Nobody Went to See This Weekend
There were five new wide releases this weekend, and hardly anyone went to see any of them. Instead, the box office was dominated by Fate of the Furious, Boss Baby and Beauty and the Beast, […]
Box Office: 5 Lessons from March’s Blockbuster Movie Madness
When was the last time you looked up the list of new movies coming out in April? Just don’t. It’s a depressing exercise, one that forces you to then look up which new Netflix shows […]
What Jordan Peele Hopes Hollywood Learns From the Box Office Success of Get Out
Get Out is now the highest-grossing film in Blumhouse history, and it’s still growing. The domestic total now sits at $150m, but the film only just now fell out of the top 5 (in its […]
March Blockbuster Movie Madness 2017: A Box Office Update
Three weeks. Three new blockbusters movies. Three bigger-than-expected opening weekends. Huh. Maybe this March Madness of peak blockbuster won’t be so bad after all, and with Spring Break now upon us all ships will rise […]
Box Office: When a Movie Makes More In China Than In The US Do We Even Notice Anymore?
OMG, you guys, xXx: Return of Xander Cage just opened to a massive $61.9 million in China, which is the biggest opening for a Hollywood movie in China this year as well as a far more […]
