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…
We are now in the third round of voting for the Friday Face Off, pitting winners from the second round against each other. Just choose one selection in each of the categories below. Because we want to keep the polls open a bit longer before starting the next phase, after we finish this third pass,…
Born Richmond Reed Carradine on February 5, 1906 in New York, New York, and billed as Peter Richmond, then John Peter Richmond through 1935, John Carradine eventually amassed 350 known screen and television credits beyond the 70 he claimed he did not get credit for in silent films, making him the most prolific actor in…
After the huge weekend of Captain America: Civil War, a $100 million debut won’t seem so exciting. However, that’s what X-Men: Apocalypse is targeting with its debut this weekend. Days of Future Past took in $90 million on its opening weekend, which is about where I expect Apocalypse to land if not higher. It will…
Page Revisions: (May 22, 2016) Original (July 24, 2016) New Posters (#3-#17) Release Date: July 27, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of “watchers.”” Poster Rating: B (2) / B…
New This Week Film noir, a French term meaning “black” or “dark” film, was coined by Italy-born French film critic Nino Frank in 1946. It’s a term that is applied to the stylish Hollywood crime dramas that were prevalent from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Many of these films were not major hits…
