Minions ruled; Smurfs, Snails, Planes and Monsters suffered A record number of CGI characters graced the silver screen this summer. Blue Sky’s “Epic” was released over Memorial Day weekend and made $107 million, making it the studio’s lowest grossing film of all-time. “Monsters University” had a strong open, but barely outearned the original with $261M. […]

While “Justice League” is still TBD for 2015, there are at least two dozen other blockbuster films already set for release the year after next. Either 2015 will play out like 2011, when it was Big Movie after Big Movie and it was impossible for moviegoers to see them all, or the film industry will […]

Warner Brothers has pushed back the romantic drama, “Her” from a limited release open on November 20 to December 18. The film will then go wide on January 10. It’s directed by Spike Jonze (“Where the Wild Things Are”, “Being John Malkovich”) and stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore, a man who’s recently been divorced, but […]

With the release of “Planes”, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at the recent animated films that Walt Disney Pictures has distributed but didn’t actually produce. In other words, these are all non-Walt Disney Animation Studios/non-Pixar films: DisneyToon Studios created a bunch of hand-drawn animated films in the late 90’s and […]

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic” is currently on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts through October 27th. This elaborate collection of artwork, including sketches and cels, videos, photographs, posters and much more is on loan from the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. You’ll learn […]

Last summer, Regal Entertainment Group showed an exclusive five-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Les Miserables” prior to the films shown in all their theaters nationwide. This new marketing strategy was a big hit. Since then, several studios have tried their hand at duplicating that success by making their own “extended previews” of upcoming […]

Thanks to one of my favorite websites: BoxOffice.com, I stumbled upon a new South Korea/China sports comedy called “Mr. Go”. It’s out in theaters in both of those countries right now and is quickly becoming a huge hit. In fact it’s grossed close to $10 million in its first four days in China. Why is […]

I was afraid of this. When four BIG movies open on the same weekend, you know only one or two will be successful at the box office and the others will flat out bomb. And the current glut of quality carryover films only make things more difficult for the newcomers. DreamWorks Animation is probably regretting […]

Here are five more of the Top 10 films you should be watching out for this Awards Season: 12 YEARS A SLAVE – Director Steve McQueen re-teams with “Shame” star Michael Fassbender for this historical drama set in the pre-Civil War. Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti and Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Salt”)are also part of the ensemble. October […]

“Despicable Me 2” set some positive box office records over the 4th of July holiday weekend. But the animated hit also set a new all-time record for the lowest percentage of 3D tickets sold. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that only 27% of ticket sales for “DM2” over the 5-Day Fourth of July weekend were for […]