The 2022 Summer Movie Box Office In Review

Yes, the overriding takeaway from the 2022 summer movie season was the general lack of theatrical releases. Even amid several titles breaking box office records and almost every tentpole performing at...

Discussing Why Kayla Needs A Spin-Off And Claire’s A Role Model with Jurassic World Dominion Stars Bryce Dallas Howard and DeWanda Wise

From the Jurassic World Dominion junket Universal Jurassic World Dominion is finally available on home release, and the new Extended Cut is the pivotal cut of the film. To celebrate the release, I vis...

How ‘Jurassic World’ Became Hollywood’s Most Underrated Blockbuster Series

(from left) Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermo...

Maverick’ Tops $1.1 Billion Worldwide

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Acting like Minions: The Rise of Gru wasn’t even in the room, Tom Cruise celebrated his 60th birthday by watching Top Gun: Maverick ...

Maverick’ Might Pass $1 Billion

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance In holdover news, the big story was again the remarkable legs shown by Skydance and Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick. It earned $50 mil...

Tom Cruise Sequel Passes $600 Million Worldwide

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Paramount Pictures With another $13.8 million on Tuesday...

Dominion’ Isn’t Just Dinosaurs Fighting In The Streets Of New York

Director Colin Trevorrow arrives at the premiere of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ at the TCL Chinese … [+] Theatre in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Make no bones about it, Jur...

Dominion’ Begins With Boffo $6 Million In Korea

(from left) A baby Nasutoceratops, Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) in Jurassic World Dominion, co-written and directed by Colin Trevorrow. © 2022 Universal Studios and Am...

Super-Sized ‘Stranger Things’ Episodes Nab Record Netflix Ratings As ‘RRR’ Rules

STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Eduardo Franco as Argyle, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, and Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Cour...

Three Lessons From Tom Cruise’s $300 Million Debut

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramount and Skydance With rave reviews, an A+ Cinemascore grade and a jaw-dropping $160.5 million four-day domestic gross and $300 million worldwide as ...

‘Firestarter’ Flames Out With $4 Million

(from left) Andy (Zac Efron) and Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas. © 2022 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. All Rights Reserved. There was a single new wide release this weeken...

5 Movies That Learned The Right Lessons From ‘The Avengers’

‘The Avengers’ Disney and Marvel Today marks the tenth anniversary of the domestic debut of Marvel’s The Avengers. I went long last week, on the ten-year-anniversary of its overseas debut,...

The Way Of Water’ Won CinemaCon By Default

‘Avatar’ Fox and Disney On one hand, I had a generally pleasant time at this year’s CinemaCon. It was nice to be back for the first time since 2017, I got to see both The Black Phone (exce...

‘The Batman’ Tops ‘F9’ To Become Fourth-Biggest Covid Era Blockbuster

Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman ended its fifth week in theaters with $352.5 million in domestic earnings. We’re probably looking at a $6.6 million sixth-weekend g...

No Way Home’ Didn’t Need China To Pass $1 Billion Overseas

Zendaya and Tom Holland in ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Sony and Marvel As Spider-Man: No Way Home spends what could be its final day atop the domestic and worldwide box office before what I a...

The Movie Previews We Might (Or Hope To) See During Super Bowl LVI

Chris Pratt as Owen Grady in JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION (c) 2021 Universal Studios and Storyteller Distribution LCC. All Rights Reserved. We are two weeks away from Super Bowl LVI, which will take place ...

‘The 355’ Bombs As ‘Spider-Man’ Passes ‘Jurassic World’

‘The 355’ Universal The new only wide opener this weekend was Universal’s The 355, which earned $1.71 million on Friday for a likely $4.3 million Fri-Sun frame. To be fair, nobody expected...