(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)One of the sad truths of the movie business as it exists is that great movies will sometimes slip through the cracks.
A movie as good as “Booksmart” deserved a lot better than $25 million at the box office.
Both “Blade Runner” and “The Thing” deserved better than getting trounced by “E.T.” in 1982.
Fortunately, cream tends to rise to the top over time, and good movies often find their audience eventually.
Perhaps no movie released theatrically over the last decade deserved to find its audience more than director John Carney’s “Sing Street.”Released in 2016, the movie about a kid who starts a band to impress a girl charmed just about every single person who saw it.
The only problem is that not…
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