Black Christmas
Box-Office Weekend: The Force is King as The Rise of Skywalker Dominates
While there was little doubt exactly which film would top the box-office weekend before Christmas, what was up for debate was just how much the concluding chapter in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker would make. Ultimately, the film took in $175.5 million domestically its opening weekend, easily dominating the weekend box-office top ten. Despite the bawdy numb...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Jumanji Goes to the Next Level
Unlike last weekend, where only one new film managed to crack the weekend box-office top ten, three new films took spots amongst this weekend’s top films. Finishing in the top spot, by a very wide margin, was the sequel Jumanji: The Next Level, which enjoyed an opening box-office weekend that brought in $60.1 million. Despite being knocked to second place and making over $40 million less than Juma...[Read More]
That Untitled Blumhouse Horror Project Has a Name!
Blumhouse, the leading brand in horror, recently took Halloween to that franchise’s highest performance and now returns to another genre classic with an upgrade engineered for today – Black Christmas. Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation’s young wome...[Read More]
Ten Alternative Christmas Movies
If you’re getting your holiday movie lineup together you’re probably selecting from the canon of mandatory yuletide films. Sure they’re good, but when Die Hard is America’s number one Christmas movie, well, we have clearly crossed a line in our definition of “Christmas” movie. It now includes movies that aren’t about Christmas but merely have Christmas in them – songs, snow, deco...[Read More]