Category: Looking at the Weekend

Two films hope to take The Croods‘ crown in the final weekend before Christmas. Monster Hunter had been poised for a New Year’s release, but got pulled back to this weekend for what reason, who knows. Opposite Fatale, which was booted further down the release calendar once before, the likelihood of either doing incredibly well…

Another weekend with no new wide releases and it doesn’t look like things will be letting up anytime soon. Our Highest Rated Films: Farewell Amor Our Best Awards Ratings: No consensus OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Assassins (Limited) Finding Yingying (Virtual) Gunda (Virtual) The Never List (Limited) On-Gaku: Our Sound (Limited) Queer Japan (Virtual) The Weasel’s Tale…

With December fairly barren for new releases, it’s rather surprising that two are slated for this weekend. All My Life is a romantic weepie and Half Brothers is about a pair of half brothers trying to trace their father’s immigration origins. Neither film looks to draw a wide audience to the theater, but Half Brothers…

Once again, we only have one new wide release for the weekend and with this being a holiday weekend, usually one of the biggest of the year, it will be interesting to see just how many people actually make it to theaters. Our Highest Rated Films: The Croods: A New Age Our Best Awards Ratings:…

There are no new wide releases this week with fewer and fewer on the horizon. Many of the potential releases have vacated as U.S. pandemic infections are on a dramatic rise as we enter Phase 2. The light may be seen at the end of the tunnel, but the upcoming holiday box office season is…

If there were any film that could possibly break the pandemic box office curse, it’s this film, a horror comedy. It probably won’t do very well, but it could outperform expectations. Our Highest Rated Films: Ammonite Our Best Awards Ratings: Ammonite (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Colors of Character (Limited) Come Away (Limited) Echo Boomers (Limited)…

Without much new at the box office, a film like this could do well, but as we’ve seen in recent months, audiences just aren’t flocking back to cineplexes. That means this Diane Lane and Kevin Costner film, which would appeal more to older audiences, who are most at risk in the pandemic, isn’t likely to…

There’s one new wide release, a horror film, naturally. The others are all limited and not films that have been hotly anticipated, so it will be another dull weekend. Our Highest Rated Films: None Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Amigo Skate, Cuba (Limited) The Donut King (Limited) Fishbowl (Limited) Malibu Road

Without a single trailer announcing its release, a film called The Empty Man opens wide this weekend. It is a horror film from the Fox banner, which may explain why it’s being unceremoniously dumped into the pre-Halloween frame. What Disney hopes to accomplish with this move is uncertain, but a great weekend at the box…

With little else in the way of new releases, it’s clear Honest Thief will top the box office. If there’s one box office draw that appeals to audiences in middle America where theaters are open, it’s Liam Neeson as his movies tend to make decent money in those regions. Our Highest Rated Films: Shithouse Our…

The final nail in the 2020 box office may have been the move of No Time to Die into 2021 leaving only two big films yet to move, Dune and Wonder Woman 1984, but likely to do so, especially after Regal Cinemas’ parent company decided to shutter their theaters nationwide and in the United Kingdom…

It looks like the failure of Tenet to draw an audience has made studios skittish and they’ve pulled many of their new releases and pushed them either closer to the end of the year or into 2021 completely. So, there’s nothing new this weekend, except in limited reelase. Our Highest Rated Films: The Boys in…

Another weekend with no major new wide releases. Either this will become the trend through the fall or it’s a hiccup for the late-September period that is often weaker in terms of prominent releases. Our Highest Rated Films: The Glorias, Misbehaviour Our Best Awards Ratings: The Glorias (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Break the Silence The…

The only new wide release is a film starring Jim Caviezel that has no trailer available from legitimate, longtime sources. That lack of advertising suggests a film targeted at a very narrow audience and with few chances at major success. Tenet, The New Mutants, The Broken Hearts Gallery, and Unhinged are likely to continue persistent…

Tenet shouldn’t have anything to worry about from this weekend’s lone new wide release. The Broken Hearts Gallery may be the first romantic comedy to release wide at re-opened cinemas, but the film doesn’t seem like the kind that can translate into big box office. Our Highest Rated Films: The Broken Hearts Gallery, I Am…