Weekend: September 2nd-4th/5th, 2016 1. “Don’t Breathe” (PG-13, 3,051 theaters) – My Prediction: #1, $13 million (-50%) second weekend three-day gross, $17 million (-35%) weekend four-day gross; $70 million final What Actually Went Down: #1, ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Can “Morgan” Scare “Breathe” Out Of Its Perch?
This Labor Day (the official end of Hollywood’s summer, although in the real world summer ends with the fall solstice in a few weeks), some unheralded new releases try to sneak in for a piece ...
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Box Office Breakdown Listcore: Alvarez Leaves “Squad” Breathless
This week, the “Suicide Squad” box office stranglehold has ended. A fresh slice of horror cinema from the Rob Tapert/Sam Raimi/Fede Alvarez brain trust was this weekend’s victor. Stephen Lang-heads rejoice! Weekend: August 26h-28th, 2016 ...
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Box Office Breakdown Listcore: “Squad” Goals Reached Again, And The “Party” Continues For Rogen
As probably (or… definitely?) the worst summer in cinematic history comes to a close, crowds shrugged their shoulders at local movie theaters en masse this weekend, resisting the lure of three new wide releases and ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Can “Kubo” Win The “War?”
So Todd Phillips has made an action comedy for grown-ups, starring two young actors who are actually pretty good and not, you know, Channing Tatum. This is one of the few new movies I’ve actually ...
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Filmcore’s Emmy Predictions Listcore
On July 16th, 2016, the 68th Emmy nominations were unveiled. As has become the norm lately, cable was the big winner this time. “Game of Thrones” (23 nominations), “The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story” ...
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Box Office Breakdown Listcore: Food Falls To DC
Maybe I should give contemporary audiences more credit. Although I thought “Suicide Squad” was mediocre, not fully awful, I respect that the paying public ran screaming the other way this weekend. “Sausage Party,” a competent ...
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Box Office Futures Listcore: Seth’s “Sausage” Fest
Can some feisty sausages defeat some hot pigtails this weekend? ONLY TIME WILL TELL. But I can tell you what I think. Read on. Weekend: August 12th-14th, 2016 Big New Releases: “Pete’s Dragon,” “Sausage Party,” ...
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Quack Attack Is Back, Jack: Bonus “Duck”
Bonus Jonas! Presenting a few choice quotes from “Howard The Duck,” as curated by Alex Kirschenbaum and ENS (click here for our ferocious shredding of George Lucas’s anti-classic): “No one laughs at a master of quack-fu.” ...
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30 Years Later, “Howard The Duck” Still Sucks
This month marks the 30th birthday of “Howard the Duck,” that infamous anti-masterpiece vomited out into the world by George Lucas on August 1st, 1986. This monstrosity of a film documents the inspirational story of ...