It seems like every few years a racing movie comes out. There are animated movies (“Cars”), comedy movies (“Talladega Nights”), movies based on a true story (“Ford vs Ferrari”), movies based on other things (“Grand […]
saidi’s take – 6/24/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The two new wide releases couldn’t take “How To Train Your Dragon” from the top of the box office this weekend. It stayed at #1 with $36.5 million, dropping 57% from it’s […]
saidi’s take – 6/20/2025
Hello everyone, This post is dedicated to actor David Hekili Kenui Bell who was one of the stars of the recent “Lilo and Stitch” movie. It was announced today that he just passed away. BOX OFFICE: Live action […]
saidi’s take – 6/9/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The new movie “Ballerina” (full title “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina”) didn’t make enough to dethrone the leading movie of the last two weeks but it did manage to beat […]
everything you’ve done led you to reading this
A few days ago I rewatched “Bullet Train” on cable TV (my original review is posted here) and there was one scene that references something which seems to be part of the storyline in a few […]
saidi’s take – 6/4/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Lilo & Stitch” went down approx. 58% from the previous 3-day weekend, but since the previous weekend was $146 million (3-day) the movie remained at the top of the box office with […]
saidi’s take – 5/27/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The unofficial start of summer kicked off with a record-breaking weekend – although not the records people were expecting. Prior to the weekend, some people predicted that “Lilo and Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible […]
original script? what an original idea!
Right now, the total domestic box office for the movie “Sinners” is at approx. $240 million. That is the biggest box office for an ORIGIAL SCRIPT – NOT based on a true story/book/video game/etc. and […]
saidi’s take – 5/20/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The #1 movie this past weekend was the new release “Final Destination: Bloodlines” which broke the franchise record for best opening weekend with $51.6 million. #2 was “Thunderbolts*” which went down about […]
saidi’s take – 5/13/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Slow weekend at the movie theaters. Partly because people were busy with Mothers Day and partly because the biggest release was Lionsgate’s action movie “Shadow Force” which was #6 with only $2.1 […]
henchperson wanted: good pay, you might die, 401k plus benefits
Would you accept a job like that? If you’re in a movie or TV show, you might. Henchmen, or bodyguards, or “gun men”, or “button men” (in gangster movies), have been in movies and television […]
review – thunderbolts
According to what I’ve read, the new movie “Thunderbolts*” is the last movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe “Phase 5”. Personally, I think it would have been better to end that phase on a high […]
saidi’s take – 5/5/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Thunderbolts*” didn’t quite jump start the summer box office season since it’s $76 million opening was about $10 million less than the opening of “Captain America Brave New World” earlier this year, […]
review – the accountant 2
Initially, I wasn’t planning on seeing this movie. First, because it wasn’t released by Warner Bros – which seems to do a sequel for almost all their movies (the Harry Potter franchise, the Lord of […]
saidi’s take – 4/29/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Two big surprises for the final weekend in April. First, the hit movie “Sinners” continues to bring in audiences adding 40 ADDITIONAL screens on its second weekend and falling LESS THAN 5%. […]
saidi’s take – 4/22/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Before the weekend, predictions were that it would be a neck and neck race between the 3rd weekend of “The Minecraft Movie” and the new horror movie “Sinners” but over the weekend it […]
saidi’s take – 4/15/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “A Minecraft Movie” continues to rule the box office making $78.5 million on its second weekend which is down approx. 52% from it’s opening weekend. It has now reached almost $300 million […]
saidi’s take – 4/8/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The “A Minecraft Movie” EXPLODED at the box office this past weekend. Pre-release estimates were $80 million (but it ended up doing TWICE THAT MIUCH), over the weekend estimates were around […]
cinemacon news
Hello everyone, This post is dedicated to the great Val Kilmer, who passed away on April 1st (no, not an April Fools joke). (Disney’s entire 2025 lineup from Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Fox Studios) Unfortunately, I didn’t get to go […]
gary oldman gone wild
ONE OF GARY OLDMANS MOST POPULAR SCENES WAS CREATED AS A JOKE I am a HUGE Gary Oldman fan. So, when I saw he would be doing an extended interview with Stephen Colbert on “The […]
saidi’s take – 4/1/2025
Hello everyone, WELCOME TO THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2025. Time is just flying by. BOX OFFICE: This past weekend was a race between the 2nd weekend of “Snow White” and the new action […]
saidi’s take – 3/25/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: This past weekend the live action remake of “Snow White” did OK (on the lower end of predictions) making $42.2 million this past weekend, but unfortunately everything else did poorly. No other […]
review – black bag
“Black Bag” isn’t just a spy thriller. A lot of scenes are set at a UK spy office, but there are also some key scenes set at a dinner table. Most of the cast work […]
review – mickey 17
After writer/director Bong Joo Ho won multiple Academy Awards for his last movie “Parasite” (including Best Original Screenplay, Best Directing, and Best Picture), it seems like he decided to cash in for his next movie. […]
saidi’s take – 3/17/2025
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The two new movies didn’t do very well this weekend. No movie made more than $9 million. It was a 3-way race for the top of the box office that ended up […]
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