Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh wanted his “final” film (at least that’s what he’s saying now) to be a major theatrical release. And it was – at Cannes. However, since he couldn’t get a studio to pay for and release “Behind the Candelabra”, Soderbergh took the project to HBO – with spectacular results. Ratings for Sunday […]

UPDATE: “Fast & Furious 6” delivers stunning $98.5 million 3-Day weekend and is aiming for huge $120 million 4-Day weekend. “The Hangover: Part III” will manage an underwhelming $65 million after its first five-days. I predicted that Blue Sky’s “Epic” would reach $60M by Monday but will only get to $45 million and lose to […]

You might think you’re really good at Angry Birds, but clearly the king of the incredibly addictive game is Sony Pictures. That studio has defeated all comers to win the rights to produce the Angry Birds Movie, which has a release date set of July 1, 2016. Having “Despicable Me” producer John Cohen on board […]

The release of the teaser trailers for “Gravity” and “August: Osage County” got me thinking about the incredible second half of the year that’s in store for Mr. George Clooney. After spending last awards season in the background (both literally and figuratively) as “Argo”, a film he helped produce, won practically everything, Clooney should be […]

I wasn’t sure it was ever going to happen. But it’s official: “Top Cat: The Movie” will be coming to theaters in America on August 2nd. How many theaters and in what cities is still unknown. All we know now is that it will be a limited release. This feature-length version of the early 1960’s […]

It was 10 years ago this week that I went to an indoor movie theater for the first time. The film? “The Lizzie McGuire Movie”. I was a big fan of the popular Disney Channel TV show starring Hilary Duff and my parents thought this would be the right movie for my first experience sitting […]

While Summer doesn’t officially begin (and schools don’t get out) until the third week in June, MY Summer begins on May 3rd with the highly-anticipated release of “Iron Man 3”. Last May’s “The Avengers” ended-up being the Box Office champ of 2012, but it was really the only HUGE film that month: “Dark Shadows” disappointed, […]

I can’t remember a studio giving away free ticket to a new, big budget release. But that’s exactly what Lionsgate is doing for “The Big Wedding”. Fans can take advantage of a ‘Buy 1 Get 1 Free’ promotion for the entire run of the film in theaters – not just opening night or a special, […]

Another Earth Day has come and gone. But if you’re thinking of celebrating this week by heading to the theater to see this year’s Earth Day-inspired nature documentary forget about it. Neither Disney nor IMAX is releasing a 2013 Earth Day film. The Earth Day nature movie tradition was started by Disneynature in 2009 (“Earth”), […]

If only I was sitting in an auditorium at CinemaCon on Wednesday afternoon instead of in a classroom at school. Lucky attendees at the annual Las Vegas event got quite a surprise: the chance to watch the entire version of Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters University” two months before it’s official release. It was an unfinished, rough-cut of […]