Disney is a little bit like Tom Brady: The iconic New England Patriots quarterback may have an off game every now and then, but you’d better watch out the next time he takes the field. Likewise, the Mouse House suffered a rare whiff with Solo: A Star Wars Story, an expensive film that reportedly won’t […]

Continue Reading

Just ask the Golden State Warriors: Sometimes it’s better to have a really strong team behind you than trying to win a title … solo. Ocean’s 8, an ensemble actioner that includes three Oscar winners (Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway), toppled Solo: A Star Wars Story for the weekend’s box-office championship. Ocean’s 8, which […]

Continue Reading

Han Solo’s origin story may have held onto first place at the box office this weekend. But it got a little (ahem) Chewied up in the process. Solo: A Star Wars Story clung to No. 1, stowing an estimated $29.3 million in the Millennium Falcon’s secret storage compartments. But while that might be just enough […]

Continue Reading

Perhaps we can expect three sure things in life: death, taxes, and anytime a Star Wars movie lands in theaters, it’ll hit No. 1. But some things are more sure than others. Solo: A Star Wars Story indeed shot to the top of the box office over Memorial Day weekend, just as everyone expected. It […]

Continue Reading

A cornucopia of superheroes gathered at the local multiplex this weekend, squaring off in some sort of weird, meta, battle royale-like clash. In one corner, the A-list do-gooders from the Avengers, the three-time defending box-office champs. In the other, the R-rated upstart Deadpool and his own (admittedly derivative) X-Force team. But even before the contest […]

Continue Reading

I’m beginning to wonder whether Disney somehow snagged an Infinity Stone—perhaps Doctor Strange’s Time Stone. After all, Avengers: Infinity War seems to be repeating history every week: another weekend, another record or two, another win. The weekend’s two major newcomers couldn’t come close to topping Disney/Marvel’s purple-tinged titan. It earned an estimated $61.8 million, pushing […]

Continue Reading

Disney and Marvel’s latest superhero story was reportedly a hard movie for its makers to make. It was unquestionably a hard movie for me to watch. But when it comes to money, the earnings couldn’t be easier. To perhaps only Thanos’ surprise, Avengers: Infinity War won again, and once again did so in stellar fashion. […]

Continue Reading

It came bent on utter domination. Once it was through, it left smoldering ruins in its wake. Try as its adversaries might, nothing could stop this awe-inducing, terrifying, world-destroying juggernaut. Are we talking Thanos, perhaps? Galactus? Darkseid, maybe? Nope. Try Avengers: Infinity War. Disney/Marvel’s latest superhero flick didn’t just win the box office this weekend: […]

Continue Reading

Forget about those gigantic gorillas. Never mind those super troopers. Let’s not even worry about Amy Schumer. A Quiet Place made another loud impression on the box office this weekend. The tense, if strangely bucolic, horror film directed by John Krasinski and starring himself and his wife, Emily Blunt, reclaimed the top spot after a […]

Continue Reading

Movies don’t get much different from each other than Rampage and A Quiet Place. The former, based on a 1990s-era video game, is dumb, loud fun built on gigantic monsters and CGI explosions and, oh yeah, the bulky charisma of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. A Quiet Place is, well, a quieter movie—an intelligent horror thriller […]

Continue Reading

Movie houses have traditionally been a bit empty in the springtime. And really, it makes sense: The kids are still in school. The movie industry is still recovering from awards season. And it’s not quite summer blockbuster season yet. Movie execs figure that we’ve all got better things to do with our time in March […]

Continue Reading

The movie’s all about the quest for an elusive, and extraordinarily important, video game Easter egg. It was released on Easter weekend. So maybe it’s only fitting that Ready Player One rolled to victory in the box office’s own Easter-egg hunt. Steven Spielberg’s return to flat-out popcorn fare proved to be all sunny-side up this […]

Continue Reading

Black Panther is incredibly strong, ludicrously fast and wears an outfit of pure vibranium. (That’s, like, a big deal for the three of you who haven’t seen the movie.) But even Marvel’s talented superhero was no match for a handful of 300-foot-high robots. Pacific Rim Uprising stomped all the way to the top of the […]

Continue Reading

Five wins. Most basketball teams that play during March Madness “only” need to rack up five straight wins to be crowned national champs. If the box-office tourney followed suit … well, hail to the king. Disney’s Black Panther has proven all but unstoppable this year, collecting an estimated $27 million en route to its fifth […]

Continue Reading

The North American box office hosted what was supposed to be a titanic, Disney-on-Disney battle this weekend, between Marvel’s rolling juggernaut Black Panther and the promising PG upstart, A Wrinkle in Time. But the battle turned into a rout. Black Panther won for the fourth straight week, and I ain’t lion. The Disney superhero flick […]

Continue Reading