Category: Looking at the Weekend

The mother of all sequels releases and it will try mightily to become the year’s biggest hit and top its predecessor. With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever now having spent five weeks at number one, it will fade to #2 for awhile, but may stay there quite some time as well. Our Highest Rated Films: Avatar:…

Could Black Panther: Wakanda Forever make it five weeks in a row at the top of the box office? It’s possible, even probable. The only films going wide this week are new release The Whale, which should have done a platform release instead, and Spoiler Alert, which is expanding wide. Neither of these films are…

With so little to be sure of, it seems likely that another week at the top of the chart may be in order for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Of the new wide releases, only Violent Night seems likely to do well since it’s largely counter-programming to the Christmas season. Our Highest Rated Films: Spoiler Alert…

Two new release and two expansions are fighting for consideration this Thanksgiving. Devotion and Strange World are new while Bones and All and The Fabelmans are expanding. You can probably set aside Bones and All and Devotion. Neither film has the crossover carry potential to take the top spot at the box office. Strange World…

While it would be impossible for anything but Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to top the box office this weekend, of the two new releases, neither really seems like a dominant type of film, so I suspect that The Menu may end up on top of the two. Our Highest Rated Films: She Said Our Best…

There’s only one new wide release this weekend and that’s because there is no film that could successfully compete with it. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a sequel to the $700+ million dollar blockbuster Black Panther, is sure to dominate the box office for the next few weeks until the Avatar releases in December. That’s quite…

We have one new wide release, One Piece Film: Red, and one expanding feature, Armageddon Time. Neither is likely to outperform the third weekend of Black Adam, so we’ll see. Our Highest Rated Films: Armageddon Time Our Best Awards Ratings: Armageddon Time (Oscars), Cuaseways (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES 1-800-Hot-Nite (Limited) Black Notebooks: Ronit (Limited) The…

This week’s wide releases are more horror fodder for audiences, but won’t provide an incredibly strong weekend as a result. Prey for the Devil may struggle to overcome the second week of Black Adam, but as the only new wide release, it will have those who’ve seen those prior films as an available choice. Our…

From the soft debut of Halloween Ends to the likely stellar debut of Black Adam what a difference a week can make. Black Adam faces only minor competition from Julia Roberts and George Clooney whose romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise faces unknown circumstances. Our Highest Rated Films: The Banshees of Inisherin, Wendell & Wild Our…

With Smile trying for a third week at the top of the box office chart, its chances are slim with the literally ultimate Halloween film, Halloween Ends, releasing. Jamie Lee Curtis’ final outing as Laurie Strode should do well at the box office and handily top the chart. Our Highest Rated Films: Till Our Best…

With two new wide releases, both coming on the heels of the success of Smile, the weekend’s top spot is up for grabs. Likely to come in first is kids book adaptation Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile with original music by The Greatest Showman composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and sung by Shawn Mendes. The film…

Two new wide releases will compete for the top of the box office against the second weekend of Don’t Worry, Darling and The Woman King. The Woman King didn’t have the best second-weekend hold, so it’s not likely to compete, but new releases Bros and Smile do have that opportunity. We don’t know how a…

There’s one new wide release, one expanding feature, and one re-release headed to the box office this weekend and while the re-release of Avatar is likely to top the charts, Don’t Worry, Darling being the only new wide release is likely to come in above Moonage Daydream, a documentary about David Bowie. Our Highest Rated…

A whole herd of new releases stamped this weekend’s box office. Currently, there are four new wide releases and one expansion headed for cineplexes. While it’s possible a couple of those might end up with more limited releases, of the ones we know for certain will stay wide (Clerks III, which is expanding; See How…

The prospects for this weekend’s box office are not particularly great. Three new wide releases hope to break through the morass of old releases in hopes of finding an audience. Horror, Bollywood, and period dramas are on top and none of them look terribly promising. Barbarian likely has the best chance, an average horror film…