Hello everyone, The biggest new movie opening was “The Pope’s Exorcist” which was #2 with only $9 million. “Renfield” just missed the #3 spot with $8.02 million so it took the #4 spot. “John Wick […]
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saidi’s take – 4/11/23
Hello everyone, Box Office: “Air” also beat expectations with approx. $14.45 million over the weekend and $20.2 million since it opened last Wednesday. It was ALMOST #2 for the weekend (“John Wick 4” made $14.46 […]
saidi’s take – 4/6/2023
Hello everyone. Although it’s still early April, it looks like the summer movie season has now started. Advance tickets for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3” (May 5) and “Fast X” (May 19) just went […]
saidi’s take – 4/4/2023
Hello everyone, Today’s email is dedicated to William Doren who passed away about a month ago (although Variety reported it today). He was my boss for a little while when I worked at Kodak. Box […]
saidi’s take – 03/30/2023
Hello everyone, Moar news… Movie theater news: Disney Layoff News: New trailers: Little bit of humor: Batman doesn’t look too bad without ears.
saidi’s take – 3/28/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor: A lot of movie theater marquees look like this these days…. If the theater was playing “Creed 3” it would be ALL sequels. I wonder what “John Wick 4” […]
saidi’s take – 3/21/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor… I would not recommend taking your daughter to any of those movies until she’s at least a teenager no matter what her mood is.
saidi’s take – 3/13/2023
Hello everyone, Of course, the biggest news is the Academy Awards A friend of mine commented: Since Harrison Ford AND Phoebe Waller-Bridge were both attending the awards, why didn’t they introduce a trailer for “Indiana Jones and the […]
saidi’s take – 3/7/2023
Hello everyone, Award news: ..so it’s looking like “Everything, Everywhere…” will probably win a lot for the final award show of the season next Sunday. Little bit of humor… They do seem to be doing […]
saidi’s take – 2/28/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor… If Will Smith snuck into the Academy awards and snuck on stage that would be something they never anticipated.
saidi’s take – 2/21/2023
Hello everyone, Internationally, “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania” was also #1 with an international total of $121 million. Other than “All Quiet On The Western Front”, “The Banshees of Inisherin”, and “Elvis” – which also won Best Make-up […]
saidi’s take – 2/18/2023
A little bit more movie news from this past week… I have amended my previous list of my “Movie to See in 2023”…. “Air” Little Bit of Humor: A few days ago, they released this […]
saidi’s take – 2/8/2023
Hello everyone, Streaming News: In the “what the heck” news: By the way, there’s probably going to be A LOT of commercials for upcoming movies during the Super Bowl including “Air”, “The Flash”, “Fast X”, […]
saidi’s take – 1/25/2023
The landscape after the Academy Award nominations… Here’s the major nominations: Best Picture Actor in a Leading Role Actress in a Leading Role Directing Actor in a Supporting Role Actress in a Supporting Role Little […]
saidi’s take – 1/17/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor: It’s a good question. R2D2 remembered Leia but didn’t remember Anakin in Episode 4.
saidi’s take – 1/10/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor: Although the “Avatar” box office is WAY AHEAD (“Puss In Boots” is only around $200 million worldwide total). These are the current numbers according to reviews.
saidi’s take – 12/27/2022
Hello everyone, Total box office was approx. $83 million for the 3-day which is about 57% lower than last years holiday (not 3-day weekend) total of $144 million. Internet responses…. ..and some internet responses quoted […]
saidi’s take – 12/20/2022
Hello everyone, ..Cameron’s response is that he would love for Matt Damon to appear in one of the other “Avatar” sequels but not for 10% of the gross. Little bit of humor….. Believe it or […]
saidi’s take – 12/17/2022
Whole bunch of movie news for this week… New Trailers: Internet responses… The internets response: The internets response… Finally…little bit of humor: THEY MADE IT IN 4D?!?!?!?! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
saidi’s take – 12/13/2022
Hello everyone, Best Film – Top Gun: Maverick Best Director – Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans Best Actor – Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin Best Actress – Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once Best […]
Saidi’s Take – 12/10/2022
Hello everyone, There’s quite a bit of movie news this week. Little bit of humor: How many other words can you find???? The funniest thing is that’s the writer/director of the “Glass Onion” movie suggesting […]
Saidi’s Take – 12/6/2022
Hello everyone, BEST FILM – Tár BEST DIRECTOR – S.S. Rajamouli, RRR BEST ACTRESS – Cate Blanchett, Tár BEST ACTOR – Colin Farrell, The[…]
Saidi’s Take – 11/29/2022
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor: I agree!!! Give the dog from “Silence of the Lambs” its own movie. They can call it “Put the Dog in the Basket”.
Saidi’s Take – 11/22/2022
Little bit of humor…. Why not?!?! Because the movie theater is not in your living room. I’ve never seen someone with a laptop in a movie theater and I hope I never will. The glare […]
Saidi’s Take – 11/8/2022
Little bit of humor…. This might be why “Smile” has made over $200 million globally. Those AREN’T CARDBOARD CUTOUTS. THOSE ARE REAL PEOPLE!!!!! Imagine what the people sitting next to them thought. “You gonna stand […]
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