Disney, Sony titles dominate the chart.RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 30-Jan 1)Total gross to date Week 1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) £7.6m £47.7m 3 2. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £2m £21.5m 6 3. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Sony) £1.4m £3.8m 1 4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) £436,000 £33.4m […]
Continue readingDisney’s James Cameron magnum opus “Avatar: The Way of Water” stayed atop the U.K. and Ireland box office for the third weekend in a row with £7.6 million (9.1 million) and now has a running total of £44.9 million, per numbers released by Comscore.Sony’s “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody” made a strong debut […]
Continue readingTraveling past space and time to a mysterious world, beyond what is possible and into a living world of connected plants and organisms known as Avalonia, where fungi the size of mountains walk across gullys, schools of stingray-like creatures swim through the air, land squids roam the oddly squishy plains and the legendary Clade family […]
Continue readingSlow weekend for new titles as cinemas await ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’.RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 9-11)Total gross to date Week 1. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £2.1m £10.8m 3 2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) £802,106 £30.8m 5 3. Violent Night (Universal) £567,351 £1.9m 2 4. Strange World (Disney) £305,802 £1.8m 3 5. […]
Continue reading’Puss In Boots: The Last Wish’ was the only new release to enter the top 10, taking 8.9m.World box office December 9-11 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) 22.9m 767.8m 11.8m 358m 51 2. Violent Night (Universal) 13.3m 41.8m 4.6m 15.1m 73 3. […]
Continue readingEarly December box office is worse than usual and next weekend will be rock bottom with no new wide studio openings. After that, “Avatar: The Way of Water” (Disney) comes to the rescue.Thanksgiving holdovers and expansions drive this period and this year was a recipe for weak results with a disastrous Disney animated release (“Strange […]
Continue reading“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” ended its one-week run last night. Netflix, as always, did not disclose grosses but it will finish its 696-theater engagement in fine form. Competitor estimates suggest it will end up with about 15 million in domestic gross — good enough for #2 behind “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and ahead […]
Continue readingThis post contains spoilers for “Strange World.”It’s been said that “life imitates art,” but the expression also works the way around in terms of “writing what you know.” Taking inspiration from your own lived experience has been responsible for some of the most powerful stories of the ages like “Almost Famous” by Cameron Crowe, Steven Spielberg’s latest […]
Continue readingThe box office woes are far from the whole story about the three awards-worthy films that opened or expanded over Thanksgiving weekend – MGM/Uar’s “Bones and All,” Sony Pictures’ “Devotion” and Walt Disney’s “Strange World.” Despite low financial returns, the studios are forging ahead in their bids for Academy Awards attention, as they should.The cannibal […]
Continue readingDisney’s latest animated adventure “Strange World” brings together Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal as father and son. But canny viewers of Roland Emmerich’s 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” will recall that Quaid and Gyllenhaal played father and son before, even while not sharing much screen time — which is why you’d be forgiven […]
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