Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Actor, 2000 In our second pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Actor. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Actor slate. There will be an “Other”…
Page Revisions: (September 24, 2017) Original (March 18, 2018) New Poster (#3) (April 8, 2018) New Posters (#4-#15) Release Date: March 23, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog.” Poster Rating: C+ / C- / C+ / C+ / C+ (11) SEE ALL…
Born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eugene (Gene) Kelly was the third son of a phonograph salesman and his wife. His father had once been Al Jolson’s road manager. Although it was Gene’s dream to play shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates, his mother enrolled Gene and his older brother James in dance classes when…
Page Revisions: (September 24, 2017) Original Release Date: November 17, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Amateur “chefs” from around the country compete for a million dollar prize in the ultimate food fight.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This is what a direct-to-video film’s poster might look like if it were designed for a…
After the stellar debut of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, but the lackluster opening of The Lego Ninjago Movie, it’s hard to know which way the box office winds will blow. Tom Cruise is a consistant box office draw, even when his films aren’t great. Of course, American Made also has the advantage of tons of…
Two disparate screeners, the documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 and the Netflix purchase Okja. Okja Oscar Chances: Unlikely: Netflix’s anti-theatrical release model has been steadfastly ignored by the Academy, its Beasts of No Nations getting the shaft, even for the lauded supporting performance of Idris Elba. This Bong Joon Ho drama has been…
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#3) Murder on the Orient Express, Updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.