Category: Looking at the Weekend

Toy Story 4 will dwarf all competitors this weekend and will likely top the $110 million opening weekend of the third film. The rebirth of Child’s Play will be lucky to make a quarter of that. Our Highest Rated Films: Toy Story Our Best Awards Ratings: Toy Story (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Toni Morrison: The…

Two wide releases and a 1,500-theater expansion. The likelihood of any of the three taking the top spot is high. The one most likely to come in first is the one opening in 3,800-plus theaters, almost 1,000 more than its next best competitor. Men in Black: International is the fourth film in the series to…

Two potential huge hits release this weekend and the edge goes to the animated feature. Dark Phoenix is the culmination of the 19-year Fox franchise of X-Men films focusing on the rise of the Phoenix, Jean Grey’s powerful alter ego that threatened to destroy the X-Men and everyone around her. It’s bittersweet that the franchise…

With the stellar debut of Aladdin, there are only two challengers who could top it and both have a distinct possibility to do so. Rocketman will be going after the same crowds that made Bohemian Rhapsody a success and early word is that most of the problems of Bohemian are missing from Rocketman, which will…

With Avengers: Endgame effectively dethroned and John Wick: Chapter 3 debuting strong, the three new releases will have to overpower it to hit number one. Aladdin should be more than capable of accomplishing that. BrightBurn will either soar or falter and Booksmart will struggle opening wide. Our Highest Rated Films: Aladdin Our Best Awards Ratings:…

While it’s possible Avengers: Endgame makes its final appearance in the number one position, it’s also possible, it falls just enough to let one of these films top it. As much as I want to say that John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum will be that film, A Dog’s Journey also has a strong claim…

A trio of unlikely hits opens this weekend, the third likely victory for Avengers: Endgame. Among these, Detective Pikachu has the best chance of topping the list thanks to the popularity of the Pokémon universe of games and movies. The Hustle just hasn’t had enough advertising done on its behalf and Poms seems like a…

While Avengers: Endgame will remain atop the box office, but what will come in second? There are two possibilities. The first is UglyDolls, an animated musical with a lot of big names, but a terrible bunch of previews. The other option is Long Shot starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen as a presidential candidate and…

Will Avengers: Endgame top Avengers: Infinity War‘s $257 million to earn the top all-time opening? The length might be prohibited, but it’s the end of an era, so it may well do it in spite of that fact. Our Highest Rated Films: Avengers: Endgame; The White Crow Our Best Awards Ratings: Avengers: Endgame

There isn’t a lot of competition, which makes the task of hitting number one at the box office all the more easy. That’s especially true when a supernatural horror flick like The Curse of La Llorona is releasing wide. Our Highest Rated Films: Stuck; Penguins Our Best Awards Ratings: No consensus OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Kalank…

The biggest question is whether Hellboy can overcome the inevitable bad reviews (the film wasn’t screened for critics) and top After, which will also have to overcome bad reviews. Could the likely poorly reviewed Little surprise everyone and win? The only other wide release this week could benefit from the collapse of the others thanks…

Two unstoppable forces meet on the battlefield of the weekend and we’ll soon find out which has a more important underlying demographic. On the one side, you have horror fans and Stephen King fans who turned It into a $327 million juggernaut with a $123 million opening weekend. On the other side you have DC…

Will Jordan Peele’s stellar $70 million debut be make it the only number one weekend for Us? Most likely as Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of its animated classics, Dumbo, flies its way into theaters with strong early word and the Tim Burton box office magic too bolster Disney’s own almost infallibility. Our Highest Rated Films:…

There’s nothing else new coming out this weekend, so Get Out will definitely take the lead. The question is whether it can perform strongly enough to overcome the third weekend of Captain Marvel, which had a solid 55.7% drop from last weekend. With Jordan Peele’s last film taking in $33 million opening, it will be…

Against the second weekend of Captain Marvel, none of the weekend’s new releases have a chance of overtaking her. Of these three, two of them stand a chance of being the second-ranked film and the top new release. Wonder Park has the animation thing going for it, a genre that is family friendly and tends…