There's a lot of big Oscar contenders missing from The Writers Guild of America's list of Best Screenplay nominees...but then that's par for the course, given the guild's extremely picky rules (nominees must be guild members, must be working under their jurisdiction, etc.). Quentin Tarantino, for example, hasn't been eligible for years (he's not a guild member), yet while [...]
Straight Outta Compton is a lock for a Best Picture nomination. That's basically the major tea leaf from today's announcement by the Producers Guild of America for their Best Film nominees of 2015. Traditionally, this guild's choices are virtually the equivalent of the Academy's Best Picture slot, and while the picks between the two don't always line up 1-to-1, [...]
No disturbance in the Force here: on the cusp of The Force Awakens becoming The Biggest Movie Ever, the upcoming first-ever Star Wars Anthology film is now the most anticipated movie of 2016. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - which opens nationwide on Friday, December 16th, 2016 - will be the first non-episode "stand alone" live action feature in the franchise's history. Set [...]
The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (OFCC), of which I'm a member, opened the new year as they traditionally do - on the first Monday - by announcing their choices for the best in film from the previous year. They joined a growing chorus of other critics groups in naming Spotlight as the Best Picture of 2015. The thoughtful, [...]
After two weeks of Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominating the cinema world - and a pause in the year-end critics group awards during that same time - The National Society of Film Critics have resumed the Oscar race on January 3rd by naming Spotlight the Best Film of 2015. While no film has swept the various Oscar harbingers, [...]
(UPDATED with final - and increased - figures) Like a Starkiller, Star Wars: The Force Awakens once again obliterated its box office competition into complete nothingness with an $90.2 million single New Year's Weekend shot. That sets a new standard for third weekend grosses, passing Avatar's previous take of $68.5 million. That now brings Episode VII's domestic haul to $742.2 million, [...]
It only took 15 days for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the 2nd Biggest Movie of All Time. New Year's Day was one of celebration for everyone, including those at Lucasfilm and Disney as The Force Awakens took in another $34 million to launch past Jurassic World ($652.3 million) and Titanic ($658.7 million) [...]
(UPDATED with final numbers) Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to demolish records, racking up several in its second weekend: Best 10-Day Gross, $540.3 million (Previous Record: Jurassic World, $402.8 million) Fastest to $500 million, 10 days (Previous Record: Jurassic World, 17 days) Fastest to $400 million, 8 days (Previous Record: Jurassic World, 10 days) Biggest 2nd [...]
Over its first seven days of release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens took in a staggeringly unprecedented haul of $391.1 million, crushing the previous first-week mark of $296.2 million set this past summer by Jurassic World. It almost seem pointless to mention, but the mega-blockbuster's seventh-day take of $27.1 million more than doubled Avatar's previous Christmas Eve record of [...]
Another record for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has seen the end of the previous Tuesday high, but The Force will have to be monumentally strong with this one if it'll see the end of Wednesday and Twilight: Eclipse's $68.5 million. Still, another major record has already been obliterated. On Tuesday, The Force Awakens took in another [...]
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