Spectre Issued a License to Win
When James Bond goes out on a mission, the accounting department of MI6 holds its collective breath. Moviedom’s favorite superspy apparently has a license to kill his per diem, given the number of cars he destroys, planes he crashes, city blocks he blows up and tuxedos he ruffles. Good thing his movies make so much […]
The Martian Gets Another Treat
In The Martian, Mark Watney shows a remarkable ability to survive, and even thrive, for weeks upon weeks in an environment incredibly hostile to life. I guess the same could be said of the movie itself. For the fourth time in five weeks, Ridley Scott’s The Martian won the box office crown—though this time it […]
The Martian Makes More Little Green Dollars
Generally, we love our new things. We get the latest phones, slip on the latest fashions and practically swoon over the whiff of that new car smell. And movies? They have a shorter lifespan than a batch of speckled bananas. Unless, of course, the new movies already look a little spoiled themselves. After a weekend […]
Getting Goosebumps at the Box Office
Fall is in the air. In many parts of the country, people are kicking aside their shorts and sliding into their wool sweaters, dumping their iced tea for hot chocolate and watching for their collective breath to turn all misty. Why, even in the enclosed confines of the local multiplex, folks are getting the shivers. […]
The Martian Sears Pan
In his review of Pan, Mashable’s Josh Dickey said that Pan was “so bad, so resoundingly rotten in every way, that you should absolutely leave the house this weekend and pay good money to see it.” Alas for the folks at Warner Bros., not many took that advice. Instead, moviegoers—an estimated $37 million worth of […]
Emojis Leave Me Feeling (Insert Confused Face Here)
In an effort to give users a little more flexibility with how they respond to their friends’ missives, Facebook is testing a small set of emojis. The little smiling/laughing/crying/fuming faces will roll out only in Spain and Ireland at first, but could come to the rest of Facebook’s 1.2 billion users in the near future. […]
The Martian Slingshots to Big Win
Ridley Scott’s newest space story may have taken place on the Red Planet. But the weekend looked mighty green. Scott’s The Martian created an economic gravitational pull all its own, drawing an estimated $55 million into its orbit and spinning to the very top of the weekend’s box office derby. The Matt Damon-fronted flick just […]
Television’s New Crop of Shows Doesn’t Look Too Great So Far
Autumn is when everything outside just seems to … well, die. Crops are harvested. Leaves fall from the trees. Grass turns a bit brown. Cold sets in. It’s a depressing time of year for many (obviously not football fans). Hey, even the sun doesn’t seem to want to stick around as long anymore. So there’s […]
Hotel Transylvania 2 Flaps to September Record
Leave it to an undead hotel manager to inject a little life into the September box office. Dracula and all his comi-creepy cohorts from Hotel Transylvania 2 siphoned an estimated $47.5 million out of moviegoers this weekend—enough entertainment lifeblood to claim a box office win and notch an earnings record for the month of September. […]
Scorch Trials Chars Black Mass
A balding, gun-wielding Johnny Depp and the low drone of Oscar buzz wasn’t enough to get scads of people to attend Black Mass this weekend. No, the moviegoing public was more interested in another little dose of dystopia. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials produced a controlled burn that included real estate right at the top […]