Category: Looking at the Weekend

Animation vs. action at the box office with two movies attempt to dethrone Dunkirk, which is expected to have a solid hold-over. In The Emoji Movie‘s favor is that there hasn’t been an animation or children-targeted release in a month when Despicable Me 3 opened. There should be pent-up desire to see the film. However,…

A week of competition awaits us. While the last several weeks have seen mostly one-man competitions, this promises to be a weekend where different reactions to the film release could result in different outcomes. Although the second weekend of War for the Planet of the Apes will be a decent one, the two films battling…

With a strong opening weekend of $117 million, Spider-Man: Homecoming will be pushing hard to claim the top spot a second week in a row. If it drops 50% in its second weekend, that will be roughly $58.5 million. That would create just enough of a drop to allow War for the Planet of the…

After the solid, but unexceptional opening for Despicable Me 3, the third iteration of Spider-Man on the big screen since 2002 should handily win the weekend. With the added star wattage of Robert Downey, Jr., the film may top the $100 million mark. Despicable could have a soft second-weekend drop thanks to it being a…

Always bet on yellow. While R-rated comedies have had success in the past, The House looks like it will go down in ignominious defeat to two of this weekend’s new films. Despicable Me 3 may feature its yellow-skinned minions, but Gru (Steve Carell) and company have proven time and again that this franchise is dependable.…

There’s no competition for Transformers: The Last Knight. Wonder Woman should have a decent fourth weekend, but not enough to take it into the top spot. Cars 3 had a relatively soft opening, which means its second weekend drop, even if small, is going to drop it below Wonder Woman. So, even if Transformers gets…

It cannot be underestimated. Although Cars is the weakest series in the Pixar universe, the box office hasn’t seen a lot of animated films recently, so its ripe for a conquering. Cars 3 will do incredibly well and will likely knock Wonder Woman off its throne. That is, of course, unless the film doesn’t live…

It will be an interesting fight between the second weekend of Wonder Woman and the first weekend of The Mummy. The ad blitz Mummy has been getting should put it on top, but considering they waited until tonight to start holding screenings of the film, perhaps the critics will eviscerate it and destroy its chances…

Trading on its strong reviews, the latest effort in the DC Extended Universe should pull an easy win at the box office. Wonder Woman has no serious competition for the top spot this week. Its chief competitor is the DreamWorks animated film Captain Underpants, which looks squarely targeted at children, which may allow it to…

When you have a venerable franchise against a movie that no one seems to be clamoring for, the venerable franchise should win. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales maybe the latest in a series that’s grown long in the tooth, but its main competition is Baywatch, a film that hopes to tap…

Although the previous film, Prometheus was ravaged by critics and fans, the new Alien: Covenant should still prove to be a potent box office foe. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 will likely go down to defeat. The rest of the week’s new films don’t stand a chance. Our Highest Rated Films: Alien: Covenant Our…

A second week at the top of the charts is expected for Guardians of the Galaxy, but second place will come down to a fight between Guy Ritchie’s latest derivation on the period literary drama and the return of Amy Schumer and long out-of-the-business Goldie Hawn. Neither film sports a truly great trailer, so it…

For a reason, only one film is releasing wide this weekend. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 re-teams the cast of the original with a handful of new characters to deliver the second set of strong box office results for Disney so far this year. There’s no question it will be the number one film…

Emma Watson has a chance to make a splash on the big screen for the second time this year with her lead role in an adaptation of the popular futuristic novel The Circle. Apart from the third week of The Fate of the Furious, there isn’t much competing against The Circle. Fellow release How to…

Five films release this weekend in hopes of picking up some scraps during The Fate of the Furious‘ guaranteed second week at the top of the box office. Among these, Unforgettable has the most potential for broad appeal. Free Fire is too niche, Phoenix Forgotten is being dragged down by a late and weak marketing…