A new trailer for Jurassic World, the long-awaited fourth film in the Jurassic Park series, has been released (see above) and it looks like we may actually be treated to a film worthy of the original. We can only hope that it will be able to scrub the memories of The Lost World and Jurassic Park III out of our collective minds. The film stars Chris Pratt and that is all you really need to know be...[Read More]
While it may be strange to think that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 failed to live up to the financial openings of the previous two films, it did not stop it from being the biggest box office opening weekend of 2014. At an estimated $123 million, it trounced the big four Marvel entries of the year, the reboot of Godzilla, and even Transformers: Age of Extinction, though it has yet to relea...[Read More]
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels returned to the big screen 20 years later with Dumb and Dumber To, to most critics’ chagrin. Still, for such a late-coming sequel, it did remarkably well, its estimated opening of $38.1 million more than doubled the original film’s opening weekend (whether it comes close to topping Dumb and Dumber’s $127.2 million domestic gross, though, is the real test). It held tight...[Read More]
Two new releases gave a dipping box office just the push it needed as two critically acclaimed films, Big Hero 6 and Interstellar, came up with the numbers to pick up a lousy October (though not enough to make them domestically successful). Big Hero 6 made a splash with an estimated $56.2 million and Interstellar gained an estimated $50 million, though amazingly both were budgeted the same at a ma...[Read More]
Despite brilliantly ending one of cinema’s most beloved series with Toy Story 3 back in 2010, Pixar Animation Studios (which is now owned by Disney) has revealed plans to return audiences to the world of the studio’s signature character with Toy Story 4. The first Toy Story (1995) was Pixar’s inaugural film and the world’s first computer-animated feature film. Nearly two decades ...[Read More]
A new trailer for director Rupert Wyatt’s latest film The Gambler, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name that starred James Caan, was released this week. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, and while he is no James Caan, Wahlberg has proven he can excel in a gritty role like this one. So maybe the Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) director can deliver the rare successful remake. The film ...[Read More]
Box office revenue as a whole dropped to September-level numbers after a decent October, but the biggest surprise, perhaps, is that the new release Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, just barely topped the winner of last week, Ouija, in numbers even an estimate is too close to call (with Nightcrawler a few thousand ahead in an estimated $10.9 million race). While Nightcrawler is getting rave ...[Read More]
We’re less than a month away from the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Lionsgate has just released the epic final trailer for the film, which you can enjoy above. Then, let us know what you think of it and your expectations for the movie. For those of you who just can’t wait, you may want to head over to MockingjayTickets.com and pre-order tickets to this year’...[Read More]
On October 28, 2014, during a special event at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed the films that will make up Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). These titles feature a mix of fan-favorite characters and several heroes who will be making their big-screen debuts. The next two films scheduled to be released by Marvel Studios are Avengers: A...[Read More]
Paramount Pictures announced on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 that Academy Award®-nominees Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou and Academy Award®-winners Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight will star in Same Kind of Different As Me, based on the best-selling nonfiction book by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, author of the bestselling book Heaven Is for Real. Michael Carney will make his feature di...[Read More]
Critics did not like it. Audiences did not like it. And yet, thanks most likely to its status as one of the few spooky flicks to enjoy during the Halloween season, Ouija took the box office crown with an estimated $20 million. It was still not good news for an overall dipping box office trend, as second place went to the new (and much better received) John Wick. Keanu Reeves made good with an esti...[Read More]