Yesterday
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]
Win Passes to an Advance Screening of YESTERDAY
Enter here for your chance to win a pair of tickets to an advance screening of the new film YESTERDAY on Tuesday, June 25th at 7:00pm at the MJR Grand Digital Cinema Troy in Troy, Michigan. To enter the contest, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. But hurry because the contest ends soon and there are only a limited number of passes available and when th...[Read More]
Trailer for Beatles-Inspired Film ‘Yesterday’
Yesterday, everyone knew about The Beatles but today, only Jack remembers their songs. Consequently, he’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar®-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music, d...[Read More]