Category: Looking at the Weekend

We’ve got our first potential mega blockbuster for the year, which will easily put everything else in the top ten to shame. It might even take in more than the next nine combined. Our Highest Rated Films: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Our Best Awards Ratings: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Eating…

With the soft openings of last week, Magic Mike’s Last Dance should be able to take the top spot. While it’s sure to have some diminishing returns being the third film in the series, it could still perform better than any of this week’s films. Our Highest Rated Films: Sharper, Daughter Our Best Awards Ratings:…

There’s potential for two big hits this weekend. 80 for Brady and Knock at the Cabin both have the kind of pedigree that could merit strong box office play, but ultimately, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film seems much more likely to be a hit since it has the least downside potential of the pair. Our…

There aren’t a lot of options this weekend, but Fear feels like the more broadly accessible of the two listed wide releases. Our Highest Rated Films: One Fine Morning Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Cairo Conspiracy (Limited) Close (Limited) Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh (Limited) Geographies of Solitude (Limited) Haiti Betrayed (Limited)Kompromat (Limited)…

There’s only one new wide release this weekend, Missing. The film seems like it could be hit or miss depending on its target demo (teens) turning out in force, which isn’t necessarily likely. Our Highest Rated Films: Missing, In from the Side Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES New Gods: Yang Jian (Wide)…

While he’s not a huge box office star, Gerard Butler sometimes does just enough to get audiences to the theater. While Plane faces off against Christian horror film The Devil Conspiracy, comedy remake House Party, and the expansion of Tom Hanks’ A Man Called Otto, it has the best chances of coming out on top.…

Blumhouse horror films often do decently at the box office. M3GAN also features an interesting premise, which could bolster its chances. Will it be enough to overcome the inherent advantage of the latest weekend of Avatar: The Way of Water‘s release? That’s less than certain and possibly unlikely. Our Highest Rated Films: M3GAN, Alcarràs Our…

There are no new wide releases on the weekend after Christmas, also known as New Year’s. That leaves Avatar: The Way of Water in prime position for another week at the top of the box office. Our Highest Rated Films: Alice, Darling Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Labyu with an Accent (Limited)…

Although Avatar: The Way of Water is likely to spend a second week at the top of the box office, it will be a tough race with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the sequel to the popular animated feature that has been receiving stellar reviews so far. We might even see James Cameron’s film…

The mother of all sequels releases and it will try mightily to become the year’s biggest hit and top its predecessor. With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever now having spent five weeks at number one, it will fade to #2 for awhile, but may stay there quite some time as well. Our Highest Rated Films: Avatar:…

Could Black Panther: Wakanda Forever make it five weeks in a row at the top of the box office? It’s possible, even probable. The only films going wide this week are new release The Whale, which should have done a platform release instead, and Spoiler Alert, which is expanding wide. Neither of these films are…

With so little to be sure of, it seems likely that another week at the top of the chart may be in order for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Of the new wide releases, only Violent Night seems likely to do well since it’s largely counter-programming to the Christmas season. Our Highest Rated Films: Spoiler Alert…

Two new release and two expansions are fighting for consideration this Thanksgiving. Devotion and Strange World are new while Bones and All and The Fabelmans are expanding. You can probably set aside Bones and All and Devotion. Neither film has the crossover carry potential to take the top spot at the box office. Strange World…

While it would be impossible for anything but Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to top the box office this weekend, of the two new releases, neither really seems like a dominant type of film, so I suspect that The Menu may end up on top of the two. Our Highest Rated Films: She Said Our Best…

There’s only one new wide release this weekend and that’s because there is no film that could successfully compete with it. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a sequel to the $700+ million dollar blockbuster Black Panther, is sure to dominate the box office for the next few weeks until the Avatar releases in December. That’s quite…