Category: Monthly Previews

One third of the year are taken up by blockbusters aiming at pocketbooks during Summer vacation. The second is hoping to either capitalize on Oscar season or bring in holiday dollars. The final third is the waste bin of the movie industry. From January through April, Hollywood has a tendency to deposit the films that…

Yesterday, I posted the first part of my Awards Season Box Office/Oscar preview. Below are my analyses for November and December. Reminder: Oscar Prospects are not displayed for those films which are not Oscar contenders. NOVEMBER 5-7, 2010 DUE DATE Premise: Trying to get home for his child’s birth, a desperate father-to-be finds himself trapped…

There are generally three distinct periods in the film year. The most important to studios is the Summer film season running from May through August. This is where they make a good deal of their money with kids out of school and ready to spend money to be entertained. Then there’s Awards Season. This is…

The best way to characterize this Summer was that I severely over-estimated the performances of nearly every film…either that or audiences just didn’t turn out where I thought they would. Aside from a few near-on predictions, most of the films weren’t. Although not all films have left theaters yet, we can probably tell from current…

Although the season of Summer (in the northern hemisphere) does not begin until the end of June, the summer blockbuster season began the first full weekend of May. School is not officially out in most places, but some colleges finish classes early in May and throughout the month until all the kids and young adults…