Hello everyone, THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE GREAT GENE HACKMAN WHO PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK – more info is below. BOX OFFICE: “Captain America Brave New World” sunk another 47% this past weekend but was still the […]
Tag: academy awards
saidi’s take – 12/6/2024
Hello everyone, A special Friday movie news! AWARD NEWS: Although Dec has only started the awards for best movies of the year have already started. The following winners were announced this past week…. GOTHAM AWARDS Best […]
my next movie will be…a family musical?
I remember the first time I saw the movie “Popeye” in 1980. A couple friends and I loved Robin Williams on television, so we were anxious to see the very first movie he starred in. We sat […]
saidi’s take – 7/2/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “A Quiet Place Day One” shot past predictions and made a little bit above $52 million which is better than the previous 2 “Quiet Place” movies opening weekend. However, that didn’t get […]
saidi’s take – 5/29/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The times have really changed. 2 years ago, Paramount released “Top Gun Maverick” on Memorial Day weekend. It zoomed past expectations making $160 million over 4 days – a new Memorial Day […]
saidi’s take – 4/16/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Surprising a lot of people, this past weekend the new movie “Civil War” was #1 making $25.7 million. That’s the best opening weekend for any A24 movie release. “Godzilla Vs Kong […]
saidi’s take – 4/2/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “”Godzilla Vs Kong The New Empire” blew past all predictions and ALMOST was the biggest opening weekend of 2024 so far making $80 million. If the movie had played on the same […]
saidi’s take – 3/27/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Ghostbusters Frozen Empire” met its box office estimates with $45 million and came in at #1 this past weekend. “Dune Part 2” stayed at #2 with $17 million. “Kung Fu Panda 4” […]
saidi’s take – 3/18/2024
Hello everyone, This is for the weekend of Mach 8-10. It’s a week late because I was busy (in the hospital) last week. BOX OFFICE: Some people were saying that “Dune Part 2” may dominate the […]
saidi’s take – 3/5/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: As predicted (and hoped for) “Dune Part 2” made an incredible $82.5 million in its domestic opening weekend. Although no other movie made more than $8 million (#2 was “Bob Marley: One […]
movie makers buying movie players
Last week when I read that a group of filmmakers including Jason Reitman, Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and several others just purchased the historic Village theater in Westwood Village, I was conflicted. On […]
saidi’s take – 2/20/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: There was some good news and some bad news over the holiday weekend. The good news is that the overall domestic box office was more than DOUBLE the previous weekend with a […]
saidi’s take – 2/15/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Thanks to the Super Bowl – which I just read was the most watched television show EVER – and the lack of big studio releases – the only wide new release was […]
saidi’s take – 2/6/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Movie theaters were really hoping that “Argylle” would ignite the box office this past weekend, unfortunately, it didn’t. Probably due to the really bad reviews (currently 34% on Rotten Tomatoes), it only […]
saidi’s take – 1/24/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The 2024 weekend box office totals were steadily climbing reaching over $100 million for the 4-day weekend last week but this weekend it dropped to what may be the lowest of the […]
saidi’s take – 1/9/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Wonka” stayed at #1 with only $14 million. For new movies, the highest opening was the thriller “Night Swim” which came in at #2 with $11 million. The total box office […]
2023 movies ranked
I was going to do a list of my favorite movies of 2023 but I realized that the list would only have 3 movies that I would recommend. So, here is the ranking of EVERYTHING […]
saidi’s take – 11/20/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Three new openings got the top 3 spots in this weekend’s box office. #1 was “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” with $44.6 million. #2 was “Trolls Band Together” […]
saidi’s take – 10/31/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The new movie “Five Nights at Freddys” STUNNED EVERYONE at the domestic box office. Although it opened in movie theaters AND on the Peacock streaming site, it made $80 million domestic. It […]
saidi’s take 2 – 9/28/2023
Hello everyone, A couple of updates and one new movie news item… Update #1 – The writers strike is officially over as of 12:01am on Wednesday 9/27 because the union has said that people can go […]
saidi’s take – 5/1/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor…. Let me know when they can freeze prisoners in suspended animation. I may call it “brilliant” when they can do that.
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 […]
academy award predictions, saidi style
Now that all the other awards have been handed out and the voting has ended for this weekend’s Academy Awards, the only thing left to do is to join the hundreds of others that are […]
is it time for the academy to update their rules?
Andrea Riseborough is an up-and-coming actress. She has already worked with several prominent directors including Mike Leigh (“Happy-Go-Lucky), Alejandro G. Iñárritu (“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”), and David O Russell (“Amsterdam”), and prominent actors including […]
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 […]
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