For one box office record, The Force is still stronger. After slaying every record held by Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the first ten days of its release, Avengers: Endgame finally came up short for bragging rights to the best 2nd weekend gross ever. Its $145.8 million domestic haul falls just short of the [...]
To paraphrase Doctor Strange, we’re in the second weekend now. After Avengers: Endgame obliterated opening weekend box office records both domestically and globally (read the long list here), it continued its Thanos-like carnage of marks heretofore set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens back in 2015. Having raked in $357 million domestically in its first three [...]
For Avengers: Endgame, dusting box office records was a snap. Audiences assembled around the world as Avengers: Endgame -- the final chapter in the first decade-plus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- set a new opening weekend record gross of $1.2 billion dollars. That's double the record set a year ago by Avengers: Infinity War. [...]
You can read my reaction to the panel here. Sabers up, Padawans. The Jedi Council is about to speak. Well, the real world equivalent of it. Today, Friday April 12, from the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago, the official Star Wars: Episode IX panel will stream live. It starts at 11 AM Central time, [...]
I'm truly grateful that The Book of Henry exits. Because it was made -- embarassment though it may be -- we're currently in the middle of J. J. Abrams' post-production of Star Wars: Episode IX rather than Colin Trevorrow's. Taking a break from the final gargantuan push to close the Skywalker saga forever, Abrams had a lengthy [...]
The Swamp is coming for the Oscars. In a shocking -- and completely outrageous -- shot across the bow from none other than the United States Federal Government, the Department Of Justice served a letter to the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts & Sciences warning them to tread lightly when it comes to rule [...]
Double, double, toil and trouble: Denzel Washington is going to be in a Coen movie. And it's going to be Shakespeare. Yes, that's right, a Coen movie -- not a Coen Brothers movie. Joel Coen will direct his screenplay adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Washington in the title role as a Scottish lord who looks [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5sd_wn2ztg FilmStruck is dead. Long live The Criterion Channel. In the wake of last fall's shocking demise of FilmStruck (the now-defunct streaming service collaboration between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Collection, which was shut down in a total blindside to subscribers when the new conglomerate Warner Media was formed), The Criterion Collection wasted no [...]
Steven Spielberg hasn’t even addressed the Academy yet, but Film Twitter isn't waiting to render its own verdict. Things have gotten so heated, it's even garnered its own trending hashtag: #SpielbergVSNetflix. Ever since it was reported that the iconic director of enduring blockbusters and Oscar-winning classics was going to speak to the Academy board about [...]
Streaming is TV. You can distill Steven Spielberg's opposition to Netflix competing for Academy Awards down to those three words. (Full disclosure: I'm #TeamSpielberg on this one.) Spielberg is about to make an official argument to the board of the Academy, the film industry org that produces the Oscars, that rules of eligibility should change. [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 