Uninspiring fights and sketchy rules of engagement mean this lazy reprise won’t excite real aficionados of the eternally warring pairWhoever wins, parents lose. While there’s little to truly loathe in Fantastic Four and Ride Along director Tim Story’s frantic new take on Tom & Jerry, there’s also an equal lack of anything to truly love; […]
Continue readingRaya and the Last Dragon lead last weekend’s box office for the second time in a row following the Disney animated epic’s debut in both theaters and HBO Max on March 5. In fact, both the top two films playing in theaters, Raya and the Last Dragon and Tom & Jerry, are available both in […]
Continue readingThis weekend saw box office of $20 million, with about half of all theaters open. (That’s enough to access about 80 percent of the potential audience.) By next weekend, most of California will be permitted to operate.No wide films opened this weekend. The top two titles — “Raya and the Last Dragon” and “Tom & […]
Continue readingThe box office is heading in the right direction. This may have been the best weekend at theaters in almost a year. And initial signs are that even with reduced capacities, reopened New York City theaters responded encouragingly.With both “Raya and the Last Dragon” (Disney) and “Tom & Jerry” (Warner Bros.) grossed over $6 million, […]
Continue readingThis week, it’s all about awards and animation. Wherever you look — VOD charts (“The Croods: A New Age”), Netflix (“Bigfoot Family”), theaters (“Tom & Jerry”), and HBO Max (“Tom & Jerry”), cartoons are king. This weekend, Disney ups the ante with “Raya and the Last Dragon” on Disney+ and in theaters. Meanwhile, “Minari” was […]
Continue readingA year ago, if one film generated two-thirds of the weekend’s total business, that would mean it likely opened to over $75 million. It would be a sign of a dominant film expected to soar, and a cue for other studios to get out of the way. This weekend, the live-action/animated reboot “Tom & Jerry” […]
Continue readingIn the 80 years since Tom and Jerry made their cartoon debut, the duo have zonked, bonked and kerplonked one another too many times to count, and somehow the joke has never gotten old. Nor have the aggravated gray cat and his rival the clever brown mouse, who remain forever young, and forever scrappy — […]
Continue readingMortal Kombat pushed back to April; Tom & Jerry moves up.Warner Bros has moved Reminiscence off its April 16,2021, release date after pushing back Mortal Kombat to fill the April slot.The studio will announce a new 2021 date in due course for the tentpole from Lisa Joy which FilmNation and Endeavor Content introduced to the […]
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