Wonder Woman
Summer Movie Recap (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but the 2017 summer movie season is already over. It seems just like yesterday we were anxiously awaiting the releases of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, War for the Planet of the Apes, and for a small few, possibly even Transformers: The Last Knight. All of those, and so many more, have been released and analyzed, while some have even made their way to...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Dunkirk Beats the Emojis
With an estimated $28.1 million, Dunkirk ruled over the weekend box office for the second straight week. Director Christopher Nolan’s latest offering has now grossed over $100 million domestically while adding another $131 million from overseas business in just two weeks. Meanwhile, Sony’s new animated feature, The Emoji Movie, managed to slide into second place bringing in $25.7 million over the ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Dunkirk Claims Box Office
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk took the weekend box office this weekend, earning over $50 million. Another new release, Girls Trip, finished in second with $30.4 million. This week’s other new release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets only managed to pull in $17 million, which relegated it to fifth place. The $50 million opening for Dunkirk, more than likely foretells a lengthy and profita...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Apes Best Wall Crawler to Take Box Office
The latest film in the Planet of the Apes series, War for the Planet of the Apes debuted in first place this weekend with an estimated $56.5 million. Though that was a bit below the $163 million Spider-Man: Homecoming brought in last week, it was still an impressive number given the competition it faced this week. Meanwhile, the Spider-Man reboot finished in second place, dropping more than 60% to...[Read More]
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]
Box Office Weekend: Wonder Woman Still Box Office Queen
In only its second week of release, the super heroine film Wonder Woman has crossed the $200 million mark earning $57.2 million over the weekend, easily besting the Tom Cruise-led monster-film The Mummy, which brought in a not-too-shabby $32.2 million. While positions may be switched worldwide, Wonder Woman is still the crème de la crème of the box office for a second week in a row stateside. The ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Wonder Woman Commands Respect
Yet again, a blockbuster that everyone predicts will champion the weekend comes in and does just that as Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot, easily assumed the top spot at the box office this weekend. Amassing an impressive $100.5 million, the first solo film story of everyone’s favorite Amazon princess finished well ahead of the pack and set the standard for the rest o...[Read More]
The Preview Reel: Captain Underpants Takes on Wonder Woman
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. After last weekend gave us the worst Memorial Day weekend results in almost twenty years, things look slightly brighter this weekend. One of the more anticipated movies of the summer debuts with DC’s Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, DreamWorks looks to garner another hit in Captain Underpants: The First...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: San Diego Comic-Con Movie Trailer Roundup
Hello again, dear readers. This week sees the release of Suicide Squad, the latest DC Comics film adaptation. In the meantime, the latest Trailer Trashin’ is my quick take on some of the major movie trailers to come out of the recent San Diego Comic-Con. [divider] Doctor Strange Premise: After Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the world’s top neurosurgeon, is injured in a car acc...[Read More]
San Diego Comic Con Lifts Batman v Superman above the Horizon
In the summer of 2013 a little crossover movie was announced at San Diego Comic Con. Shoved to the end of the Warner Brothers panel inside the sacred walls of Hall H, Man of Steel director Zack Snyder took the stage and flashed a logo for his next movie and a release date of summer 2015 for Batman v Superman. Fast forward to summer 2015 in that same location. Instead of talking about a full-lengt...[Read More]