Category: Looking at the Weekend

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…

The number one film for at least two weeks will be Captain Marvel, the latest origin film from the Disney/Marvel universe. There’s little chance that it doesn’t do well, probably topping $100 million on opening weekend. The big question is whether or not the film can top Black Panther, the $700 million (U.S.) juggernaut of…

There aren’t a lot of options this weekend, so Tyler Perry’s latest Madea film should have little trouble topping the charts or coming in second to the second weekend of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World more than likely. Our Highest Rated Films: Transit, The Wedding Guest Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER…

There’s only one new wide release and after a series of disappointing openings, the final How to Train Your Dragon film should rescue the box office this weekend. Our Highest Rated Films: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Our Best Awards Ratings: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World OTHER LIMITED RELEASES…

With The Lego Movie 2 underperforming, it makes next weekend ripe for a new number one film. Alita: Battle Angel may have the best chance simply because it has more advertising. That said, Isn’t It Romantic could be a surprise hit giving it the top spot. Happy Death Day 2U is a sequel to a…

After several weeks of meager offerings, we get no less than four wide releases, with one of them clearly the frontrunner for topping the box office chart. The Lego Movie 2 is the follow-up to the incredibly popular The Lego Movie, which opened five years ago to the tune of $69 million. It went on…

There’s only one choice this week for box office topper and Miss Bala might be it. Glass is already growing long in the tooth, so it’s next weekend should be small enough that Miss Bala, which doesn’t have a lot of strong box office prospects could come out on top. Our Highest Rated Films: Arctic,…

There aren’t a lot of good options this weekend, which suggests Glass may pick up a second week atop the chart. The Kid Who Would Be King is the only new release this week that could have a superb weekend or a tepid one and still come in second. Our Highest Rated Films: Never Look…

The weekend sees one new wide release and it will handily top the box office. Glass is the third film in an unexpected trilogy from M. Night Shyamalan who, from all accounts, has gotten his groove back. Of course, digging back into his second-most popular feature was probably good idea for him. Our Highest Rated…

Of the new releases, two films are clearly in line for the chart topper position. A Dog’s Way Home is the latest canine-centric drama that could take the box office by storm. Unfortunately, it comes up against Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart in the American remake of The Intouchables, which has all the makings of…