Box Office

Sports has been one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. While no one would count the loss of sports among the biggest casualties, or the return of sports a top priority, its absence…

AMC appears to have found a potential ally, or overlord, in Amazon. After preliminary meetings between the two this week, AMC’s stock rose astronomically. As the theater slump continues, any news is good news to…

With the box office at even further of a standstill, the streaming services reign supreme. As release dates as far as June are being pushed back, there isn’t much in the way of new “big…

The box office is at a near-complete halt due to the closures mandated by major theater chains earlier this week. With March and April’s release schedules also cleared, there aren’t any theatrical releases on the…

The effects of COVID-19 increased tenfold over the last week in the United States, with closings, cancellations, suspensions, delays, and postponements coming form every direction. People are started to stay home, which is great for…

When it comes to dunking on things that seem really, really stupid, the internet is just about undefeated. The weekend brought with it an exception to that rule: Sonic the Hedgehog. The big-screen adaptation of…

Birds of Prey came in well below studio and industry expectations, battling a slew of Oscar-nominated movies as well as other popular movies in their latest weeks of release. Was it the quality of the…

After months of discourse and anticipation, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is here to cause much more discourse and anticipation. The film is proving to be just as divisive as Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, though…

With no major new releases this weekend the box office stayed relatively on par with what we saw last weekend. Frozen II is closing in on a billion and Knives Out, Ford v Ferrari, and…

After months of anticipation and controversy, Joker is released to the public. The Joaquin Phoenix-led superhero drama is shattering expectations and fanboys alike. Following it from a long way off is Abominable in the number two spot. Downton Abbey continues…

DreamWorks continues the late-September tradition of lackluster animated films with Abominable. While it leads the weekend, it fails to take in anything close to its budget. Downton Abbey, on the other hand, continues to rake in profits with…

It Chapter Two continues to sink its teeth into the box office with an impressive $40 million second week. It‘s lead isn’t tremendous, however, as Hustlers opens to an unexpectedly high $33 million haul. The…

In a summer full of flops, Good Boys manages to ignite the box office once again. The Seth Rogen produced comedy ousted holdover Hobbs and Shaw from the number one spot for the first time in three weeks. Hobbs…

Lots went down in the world of movies in July. Festival slates were announced for Venice and TIFF, Comic-Con took place, we were hit with a barrage of new trailers, and yet another financially successful…

You’ve heard it time and time again: “Blade Runner was a flop in theaters”, “no one liked The Thing when it first came out”, “The Shawshank Redemption was a belated classic,” etc. The hard, well-known…

Spider-Man: Far From Home has eclipsed $800 million worldwide to become one of Spidey’s biggest successes at the movies. The Wall Crawler is showing minimal signs of slowing down against new competition. Toy Story 4…

Toy Story 4 holds onto the number one spot with continued success. Meanwhile, the sixth installment in the Conjuring Universe has the franchise’s lowest opening, despite a five-day lead-in. In opposition to Annabelle Comes Home,…

The summer box office has hit its first summer slump. While The Secret Life of Pets 2 opens to half the opening gross of the original, Dark Phoenix sets a new low for the X-Men…

Godzilla: King of the Monsters opened this weekend to the number one spot. But while it is in first place, the Kaiju doesn’t have the lead by a wide margin, however. In its second week,…

The latest in Disney’s line of live-action remakes, Aladdin, soared to a $100+ opening weekend over the Memorial Day weekend. The film opened amid continued competition from John Wick: Chapter 3 and Avengers: Endgame —…

Avengers: Endgame continues to prove its global dominance in its second week as it crosses $2 billion at the box office. The film is already the second highest grossing film of all time, but will…

No surprises here, Avengers: Endgame seizes the highest domestic opening and worldwide opening of all time. Racing past $1.2 billion in just five days, the Avengers are once again unstoppable. In addition to taking the…

Not only is Endgame on the horizon, but so is the rest of the blockbuster season. The late spring/summer movie season is when studios have their largest money-makers…or their worst bombs. Either way, it’s a…

How high can Dumbo fly? To quote another Disney movie, it’s more “falling with style” than it is flying. Dumbo takes the weekend, but with a much narrower victory than its budget warrants as Us continues…

Jordan Peele has cemented himself as an elite force in Hollywood with Us. The spiritual follow-up to 2017’s Get Out far surpasses early estimates, eclipsing the $70 million mark at the domestic box office. Captain…

Captain Marvel continues to go higher, further, and faster than the competition. (Like the title of this article, we enjoy our cheesy jokes here at MovieBabble). But in other, more depressing news, Wonder Park opens up…

The press leading up to Captain Marvel‘s release last weekend wasn’t all positive. (The last thing I want to hear right now is more about Rotten Tomatoes user scores.) But all those negative tidbits in…

Captain Marvel is Marvel Studios’ newest flick, and although the marketing itself doesn’t look all that impressive, that factor alone isn’t enough to indicate how well it’ll perform. If anything it’s already guaranteed to hit…

February’s dismal start continues through Valentine’s Day weekend. Alita: Battle Angel, Happy Death Day 2U, and Isn’t it Romantic all struggle to earn back their budgets. The Lego Movie 2 continues to underperform its predecessor,…

While it’s been a critical success, The Lego Movie 2 isn’t shaping up to be the same box office success as its predecessor. The film grossed an estimated $34.4 million over its opening weekend. In…

Although Glass has been rather hit or miss with critics and fans, there’s no question that it has been a box office success. Privately funded by M. Night Shyamalan himself, the film has just surpassed the $200…

Every year hundreds of films hit the big screen. Week in and week out your local theater will be playing the newest releases. Often enough there will be films that are “must-see” and have large…

How I love thee, let me count the ways. Jake Gyllenhaal is a gem. He is a gift to Hollywood. He must never be sullied by popularity or arrogance or any of this Earth’s foul…

MoviePass is a revolutionary change in the way people watch movies. Or maybe it’s “was”? My time with the service began last year because of a simple promise made in its mantra. I bought in…

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) looks like a promising adaptation of a TV show to a film. However, I don’t really care for it because I never watched Teen Titans.  But I am quite intrigued by…

The Incredibles 2 (2018) has revived Disney mania once again. With the addition of another great movie to the Disney universe, people are reliving their favorite Disney memories. But there are some movies in the Disney…

Since the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sony decided to collaborate with Disney and implement Spider-Man to join the sandbox. This hasn’t stopped Sony from still trying to do their own thing. In fact, their…

The Star Wars franchise is currently experiencing its first real flop. (Side note, I am not taking 2008’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars into account.) Solo: A Star Wars Story has opened to dismal earnings,…

Solo released over the Memorial Holiday weekend to not as much fanfare as Disney had hoped it would. The newest Star Wars movie, and the second in the line of Star Wars Stories to release since Disney acquired…

On Saturday, IndieWire reported that James Cameron hopes that moviegoers will soon develop “‘Avenger’ fatigue” because, in his own words, “there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for…