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 […]
The Perfect Guy in a Predictable Spot
The weekend’s box office showdown pitted a predictable thriller against the newest effort from M. Night Shyamalan, the one-time cinematic prince of unpredictability. And who won? Well, let’s just say the results were … predictable. The Perfect Guy stalked into the No. 1 slot, becoming the third straight movie with a predominantly black cast to […]
War Room Preys on Compton
If you thought last weekend’s War Room performance was a thing to behold, take a look at this. The latest film from the Kendricks Brothers and Sherwood Pictures went into battle for the second straight week against the rap biopic Straight Outta Compton. And while the Christian flick came up short last weekend, it turned […]
Miley, What’s Good?
Sunday’s MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards were, naturally, again all about Miley Cyrus. She hosted it and managed to dominate it as only a savvy, shock-centric self-promoter can. The online press spent yesterday talking about her outfits (their huge number and tiny size), her dizzying references to marijuana, her “accidental,” somehow-not-so-shocking-anymore wardrobe malfunction. But perhaps […]
War Room Takes on Compton
Chalk it up to the power of prayer. Or, at least, the power of a prayer-centric movie to draw people to theaters. War Room, the latest movie from the Kendrick brothers and Sherwood Pictures, gave Straight Outta Compton a good run for the No. 1 slot, earning $11 million to Compton’s $13.2 million. And keep […]
Compton Triumphs Over Sinister Hitman
The rap biopic Straight Outta Compton laid the beat down on its competition for the second straight week, Easy-E’ing into the top box office spot with an estimated Ice Cube-cold $26.8 million. Compton has already snatched $111.5 million in two weekends of work, and that’s nothing to spit at. Granted, Compton’s win came during a […]