Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Song, 2003 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Actress. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Original Song slate. There will be…
Page Revisions: (July 29, 2018) Original (December 16, 2018) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#6) (April 28, 2019) New Trailer (#3) / New Posters (#7-#9) (May 26, 2019) New Posters (#10-#14) Release Date: May 31, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The new story follows the heroic efforts of the cryptozoological agency Monarch as its members…
Born March 1, 1910 in London, English (James) David (Graham) Niven was the youngest of four children, his father being killed in World War I during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. His mother married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, believed to be Niven’s biological father, in 1917. Raised in private schools, Niven graduated from Royal Military…
Page Revisions: (July 29, 2018) Original (November 25, 2018) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#12) (December 16, 2018) New Posters (#13-#15) Release Date: December 21, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be…
This summer has been surprisingly bereft of comedies, but The Spy Who Dumped Me hopes to change that with an August opening that could end up being the traditional summer sleeper. It must contend against the non-Marvel/DC superhero drama Darkest Minds and the family-friendly Christopher Robin. It will be an interesting battle with Mila Kunis…
Page Revisions: (July 29, 2018) Original (October 14, 2018) New Trailer (#2) (January 13, 2019) New Posters (#2-#13) Release Date: January 18, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has 24 personalities.” Poster Rating: B / B- / C+ / C…
New This Week A Matter of Life and Death AKA Stairway to Heaven opened in New York on Christmas Day 1946 to a rave review from Bosley Crowther in the New York Times who placed the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film among his ten best of the year the following Sunday while dismissing Frank Capra’s similarly…