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 […]

How can you tell that a movie franchise has gotten out of control? When a studio orders a sequel to a film that hasn’t even been released yet. “Fast and Furious 7” has been given a July 11, 2014 release date. Star Vin Diesel making the announcement this week at CinemaCon. However, “Fast and Furious […]

UPDATE: “42” stunned at the Friday box office with $9.1 million. Jackie Robinson biopic won the Weekend Box Office with an impressive $27.25 million, beating “The Benchwarmers”‘ $19.7 million to have the biggest opening weekend of all-time for a baseball film. With the opening of “42” this weekend I thought it would be fun to […]

“Awesomeness” will be returning to a theater near you sooner than expected. DreamWorks Animation has announced that “Kung Fu Panda 3” will be released on December 23, 2015, three months sooner than originally planned. “KFP3” joins “The Penguins of Madagascar”, “BOO” and “Trolls” on the ’15 schedule. “Mumbai Musical”, which was originally going to be […]

Roger Ebert was simply the best. A great writer and also a great TV personality. Many before and after have tried to combine those two, but no one has or ever will do it as well as Roger. He loved movies and loved sharing his opinions of them. He was the reason I became a […]

Disney/Pixar has announced that “Finding Nemo 2” has been officially re-titled “Finding Dory”. The release date has also been moved-up from 2016 to Wednesday, November 25, 2015 – so it’s a sure-fire blockbuster for the five-day Thanksgiving Weekend. Ellen DeGeneres herself was the first to make the announcement by posting the film’s logo online. This […]

This has the makings of a BIG April at the Box Office. And it actually shouldn’t be difficult to top April ’12 since the highest-grossing movie that month, “Think Like a Man”, only made $91.5 million – and even that was a big surprise. Here are the highly anticipated releases that should fill seats at […]

When I was out in LA for Oscar week, I saw A TON of billboards for “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”. Apparently, they didn’t help as the magician-themed comedy only made $10.3 million at the Weekend Box Office. It still shocks me that a very funny film with such a star-studded, likeable cast (Steve Carell, Jim […]

UPDATE: “Oz” easily wins Friday with $11.4 million. Here’s where it gets interesting: “The Call” came in second with $6.2 million, crushing “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” which only efforted $3.7 million. Early Weekend Estimates show just $11 million for “Wonderstone”, putting the magician comedy at “Bomb” status. “The Call” is set to make $17 million […]

2012 was, among other things, the Year of the Animated Horror Movie (with “ParaNorman”. “Frankenweenie” and “Hotel Transylvania”). The first theme emerging so far this year “appears” to be Magic. Three major releases are magician-related, including two out this month: “Oz: The Great and Powerful” is a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz”. The Wizard, […]