Dwayne Johnson, former professional wrestler and muscular star of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Rampage (2018), has some big news. On his Instagram account on Wednesday, June 27th, the Rock posted enthusiastically: Johnson is certainly right when he proudly referred to Welcome to the Jungle as a ‘global juggernaut’: according to Variety, the […]
Read more
We’ve known that Avengers: Infinity War was going to be big, we didn’t quite know just how big. Early estimates from weeks before put the film right around the $230 -$240 million range, undoubtedly a success, just not enough to have it break the opening weekend record. Well, that record has been shattered, and then […]
Read more
Horror remakes were a bit of a fad during the 2000’s and even into the 2010’s, but one production company knows that quality will always outweigh familiarity. Platinum Dunes, a production company who came into the game in 2003, has vowed that they will no longer produce remakes and reboots. Looking at their filmography below, […]
Read more
The emerging sub-genre of sound-based horror films are once again making their mark; on April 3rd, Rebecca Rubin from Variety anticipated a successful weekend opening for A Quiet Place, which received a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes after its screening at South by Southwest (article here). Film Journal International starts off hesitant, but ends with […]
Read more
Last month, Disney and Marvel Studios just announced that Avengers: Infinity War will be coming out on April 27th, 2018. This excited fans because the release date was pushed one week earlier than previously anticipated. But – it’s just one week. How big of a deal can that be? Turns out, a pretty darn big deal. […]
Read more
Despite having the fortunate timing of Presidents Day allotting it to actually open during a four-day weekend, it’s three-day total was impressive enough. Black Panther (read our review HERE) is now the fifth highest weekend opener of all time, crawling its way past Disney’s wildest projections (which were the mid-low 100 million’s) and coming in […]
Read more
Fittingly, in a year when the “Me Too” movement allowed for women to come out from behind the shadows and be able to tell their stories, it seems that American movie-goers wanted to see more female-centric movies as well. In the domestic box office, for the first time since 1958 when, the top three films all […]
Read more