First, take a great title like “All You Need Is Kill,” and change it to something as vague, as soapy-sounding as, I don’t know, “Edge Of Tomorrow.” Which reminds me of a Lady Gaga song, or “The Edge Of Night.” Then you add Tom Cruise – who’s box office powers has been somewhat uncertain as […]
I was just on Deadline, and there’s a story there that says that an analyst from Lazard Capital Markets’ who speculates that DreamWorks will have to write off $95 million dollars on their animated feature, “Rise Of The Guardians.” What’s interesting is that the same analyst originally believed that that number to be smaller almost […]
You might have heard that, as a result of the box office performance of “The Amazing Spider-Man”–which earned just over $750 million worldwide, on a budget of $230 million–has warranted a sequel. And in other news, the sky is blue, and dinosaurs have been gone (except Nessie) for a long, long time. This is good news […]
This is an interesting bit of news. According to Vulture, by way of Superherohype, there’s talk of a reboot of Dave Stevens’ ‘Rocketeer,’ which I think is a really cool idea. The original film, directed by Joe Johnston, most recently of “Captain America,” didn’t do too well at the box office, earning almost $47 million […]
Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” appears to be opening strong overseas–in India it premiered bigger than Marvel’s “The Avengers”–but this has to be tempered by the fact that other movies that appeared strong because of international profits have gone on to underperform at the American box office. Like Peter Berg’s “Battleship,” for instance. So at […]
No one knew how well Marvel’s “The Avengers” would do before it was released, though since it was a movie that some have–literally–been waiting a good part of their lifetimes to see, I don’t think that that’s necessarily a surprise. Though perhaps ‘well’ is an understatement because it’s ranking among the most profitable films ever […]
I wrote a week or so ago about ‘Hunger Games fatigue,’ that is, despite the millions of young adults–and not-so-young adults–that are fans of the books, there was no way that it could maintain its stranglehold over the North American box office for too much longer. Everything that goes up–assuming that it does not escape […]
Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games,” is making box office history, with the fifth best opening ever. Worldwide receipts have reached $214 million, on a budget of $78 million. This is what happens with you take a popular book–one aimed primarily at teenage readers–with a smart (and relatively inexpensive) advertising campaign by Lionsgate. Hopefully Disney and other […]
Disney is going to take a $200 million dollar write-off on “John Carter.” The worse thing is that it shouldn’t have happened, because after an initial stumble (the first half hour or so), the film was actually pretty enjoyable. I don’t know who’s responsible (other than Andrew Stanton, who’s fingerprints are to be found on […]
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