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In Theaters This Week (10/28/2016) – Inferno, Before the Flood

 

Before the Flood, Leonardo DiCaprio

Each Thursday we look at what is going to be coming out in theaters this weekend, show you the trailers for the big releases, predict the box office winner and just generally give you enough of a carrot to pull you through the rest of the work week.  October 28th closes out the most mediocre October that I can ever remember with a weekend Tom Hanks can’t even save. Continue reading In Theaters This Week (10/28/2016) – Inferno, Before the Flood

In Theaters This Week (10/21/2016) – Jack Reacher 2, Boo! A Madea Halloween, Ouija, Keeping Up With the Joneses

 

Tyler Perry, Boo! A Madea Halloween

Each Thursday we look at what is going to be coming out in theaters this weekend, show you the trailers for the big releases, predict the box office winner and just generally give you enough of a carrot to pull you through the rest of the work week.  October 21st has four new releases, but continuing the disappointing vein of this month only one has positive reviews.  I swear this will get better in November. Continue reading In Theaters This Week (10/21/2016) – Jack Reacher 2, Boo! A Madea Halloween, Ouija, Keeping Up With the Joneses

In Theaters This Week (10/14/2016) – The Accountant, Max Steel, Desierto

(L to R) JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN and GAEL GARCIA BERNAL star in DESIERTO.

Each Thursday we look at what is going to be coming out in theaters this weekend, show you the trailers for the big releases, predict the box office winner and just generally give you enough of a carrot to pull you through the rest of the work week.  October 14th brings three new wide releases, but nothing of the caliber still we saw in September. Continue reading In Theaters This Week (10/14/2016) – The Accountant, Max Steel, Desierto

In Theaters This Week (9/30/2016) – Deepwater Horizon, Miss Peregrine, Masterminds, Luke Cage, The Queen of Katwe

Eva Green, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Each Thursday we look at what is going to be coming out in theaters this weekend, show you the trailers for the big releases, predict the box office winner and just generally give you enough of a carrot to pull you through the rest of the work week.  September 30th offers both compelling reasons to go to the theater with four new releases and stay at home to binge-watch Marvel’s newest Netflix series. Continue reading In Theaters This Week (9/30/2016) – Deepwater Horizon, Miss Peregrine, Masterminds, Luke Cage, The Queen of Katwe

Final Summer Box Office Report

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Summer 2013 Box Office Champ

It’s hard to believe (partly because September is still brutally hot everywhere), but summer has ended.  Movie-wise, this was one of the most disappointing summers I can recall.  Lots of big disappointments and maybe the biggest one ended up being the highest-grossing film of the summer.  Iron Man 3 was the summer’s only worldwide $1 billion film and that and Monsters University can help Disney off-set the financial disaster that was The Lone Ranger.  My favorite films of the summer were Now You See Me, Elysium, Despicable Me 2 and The World’s End.  Kudos for everyone who made the first such a word-of-mouth hit that another installment is forthcoming.  Here are the top ten earners at the summer box office (worldwide gross in parentheses), and let’s hope for a fall like the one we had last year.  Of the top 10, I have seen 8 (I’ll probably eventually see The Heat, but you’d have to put a gun to my head to get me to sit through a regular Great Gatsby adaptation, let alone a Baz Lurhman adaptation).

1. Iron Man 3 : $408.2 million ($1.2 billion)

2. Despicable Me 2 : $347.6 million ($801.3 million)

3. Man of Steel : $289.8 million ($649.3 million)

4. Monsters University: $261.1 million ($658.6 million)

 5. Fast & Furious 6 : $234.5 million ($785.5 million)

6. Star Trek Into Darkness : $227.2 ($453.7 million)

7. World War Z : $198.5 million ($517.8 million)

8. The Heat: $155.8 million ($205.2 million)

9. The Great Gatsby : $144.8 million ($331.0 million)

10. The Conjuring: $129.6 million ($194.9 million)