47 Meters Down
Box Office Weekend: Spider-Man: Homecoming Tops the Bill
Spider-Man: Homecoming brought the web slinger back to the big screen in a big way with a near-$120 million opening weekend ($117 million to be exact). This is the second largest opening for a Spider-Man feature, just narrowly pushing past the 2002 original directed by Sam Raimi. This gives Spider-Man: Homecoming the second largest opening of the year (so far), between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Gru and the Minions Stand Tall at Box Office
Despite delivering approximately $10 million less than the opening weekend total for its predecessor, Despicable Me 3 finished atop the weekend’s box office with just over $75 million. The third film in the popular franchise led the box office heading into the final two days of the five-day Fourth of July weekend. Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver defied studio expectations, finishing in second with $21 ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Pixar’s Cars 3 Takes Top Spot from Wonder Woman
Pixar/Disney rode their newest offering, Cars 3, to the top of the box office this week with $53.5 million, pushing the juggernaut Wonder Woman to second place. Despite the drop to the number two spot, Wonder Woman still brought in an impressive $40.8 million to brings its three-week total to an impressive $274.6 million. The new Tupac biopic, All Eyez on Me, came in third place with $27.1 million...[Read More]
Movie Review: 47 Meters Down
Movies set in one location can be tricky. Films like Phone Booth (2002), Buried (2010), and arguably the best of the bunch, Locke (2013), know how to create suspense and tension by changing the stakes and situation without multiple locations. They gave the protagonists little tasks throughout the film that brought them one step closer to getting out of their situation. It can make for simplistic, ...[Read More]