Now you can add another record to the growing list of them being set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this time, it's one that's stood for over a decade. On Monday, Episode VII hauled in over $40 million to set a new Monday standard, crushing the benchmark that stood since 2004 when Spider-Man [...]
(UPDATED Monday December 21st, 2015) With the start of a new trilogy, the 7th installment of the Star Wars saga also completes another trilogy - of box office records. According to final official Monday receipts, Star Wars: The Force Awakens overwhelmed the multiplex galaxy with $248 million over its first three days, hauling in the biggest opening weekend domestic gross of all [...]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set an all-new opening day box office record with $120.5 million generated on Friday, according to Saturday estimates. It becomes the first film to make over $100 million in a single day, annihilating the previous opening day record holder Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which pulled in $91 million when it [...]
The Star Wars franchise has awoken to the first of what are likely to be several box office records to come. Final estimates show that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has opened to $57 million on Thursday evening, setting a U.S. record for Thursday night. It easily tops the previous Thursday night record of $43.5 million set over four years ago by Harry Potter and the [...]
The first awards group that waited to screen Star Wars: The Force Awakens before announcing its choices also became the first to include the blockbuster on its year-end list of Best Films for 2015. The American Film Institute - known to most as the org that broadcast Top 100 Movie list specials at the turn of the century - announced their 16th Annual [...]
You have to read this to believe it, and even then maybe only The Force can explain it. When Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy spoke to a packed theater before the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she began by saying this: “The Star Wars saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of [...]
UPDATE: The critics of the Critics Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens to their list of Best Picture nominees, doing so over a week after their original announcement - which occurred, of course, prior to the film being screened. The Force Awakens has not been added to any other categories. This is the 2nd [...]
The Golden Globe Nominations have made one thing clear: nothing's clear in this year's Oscar race. First, Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road dominated early critics group choices. Then Trumbo, Beasts Of No Nation, and The Big Short were embraced by the Screen Actors Guild. Now today, Carol (which won the New York Film Critics top prize) [...]
The Oscar Race just got more confusing, and intriguing. Trumbo, the true story satire about a Hollywood screenwriter from the Blacklist era, hadn’t made a blip in the early critics group lists. Yet today, it made the biggest splash when The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for their 22nd Annual Awards with 3 Nominations [...]
Spotlight is officially the Oscar front-runner. The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association gave the real-life drama its 3rd Best Film prize so far out of the 5 major critics groups that have announced. Spotlight also took Best Acting Ensemble. Meanwhile, fellow critics contender Mad Max: Fury Road picked up 3 wins from the D.C. gang, including Best Director for George [...]
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