Toy Story 4
Detroit Film Critics Society Names Parasite Best Picture
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2019 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of 19 film critics from Michigan who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor; Grand Rapids; and Toledo, Ohio. Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks i...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Fast & Furious Keeps Pace Ahead of Scary Stories
Still standing tall on top of the box-office weekend countdown was Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which held onto first place for the second week in a row. The latest offering of the “Fast & Furious” franchise took in $25.4 million this weekend, giving it a two-week tally of $108.5 million and an ever-so-slight first-place finish over newcomer Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Fast & Furious Franchise Unseats the King
There is a new film stop the box-office weekend top ten yet again as the “Fast & Furious” franchise has proven viable for at least one more installment. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw opened this weekend to the tune of $60.8 million. This put the film over $20 million above its nearest competitor, The Lion King. Despite slipping from the top spot, Disney’s live-action reboot of ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Lion King Stands Ground Against Tarantino
Standing proudly atop Box-Office Weekend Rock (if there was such a place) for the second week in a row was Disney’s The Lion King. The live-action rendition of the beloved animated feature took in $75.5 million in its second weekend of release, giving it an impressive two-week tally of $350.8 million. In a distant second place was Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, whi...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The King Has Returned
A new king reigned over the box-office weekend as the live-action (sort of) version of The Lion King debuted with a $185 million haul over the weekend, easily besting the number two film of the weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home, which made only $21 million (a pale number comparison). Although it was knocked from the top spot in the countdown, Spider-Man: Far from Home still sports a domestic thre...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Repeats on Top!
This week’s box-office weekend was essentially a repeat of last week, at least for the first two spots, as both Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home and Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 held firm in the first and second spots of the top ten respectively. Spider-Man: Far from Home added $45.3 million over the weekend to bring its two-week domestic total to $274.5 million. Meanwhile, Toy Story 4 tossed anothe...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Puts the Toys Away!
Not only did Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home soundly unseat Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 from the top spot of the weekend box office, it also delivered the largest six-day opening for a Tuesday release in history (albeit that is undoubtedly a very select group). The film brought in $92.6 million over the weekend and first week cumulative total of $185.1 million. The film also looks as though it cou...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The Toys are Back on Top…Again!
For the second week in a row, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 finished on top of the weekend box office. This week, the film took in $57.9 million. Although this was just shy of half of what the film pulled in last week, it was still good enough to finish over $37 million ahead of the next highest total in this week’s countdown. The strong showing gives the film a two-week total of $236.9 million and i...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Toy Story 4 Crushes All Competition
Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 absolutely demolished its competition to reign supreme over this week’s box-office weekend. Though the studio was expecting somewhere in the area of a $140 million opening, they probably aren’t too disappointed with the $118 million opening that they got. This was not only the best opening for any film in the franchise to date, but it is also the fourth largest openi...[Read More]
Plan for Toy Story 4 Revealed
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]