Hello everyone, This week’s email is dedicated to all the people laid off (see below for more information. BOX OFFICE: This weekend’s breakout is a surprise. The animated “The Wild Robot” beat expectations to make $35 […]
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saidi’s take – 7/9/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Despicable Me 4” did better than pre-release predictions making $75 million this past weekend and $122 million since it opened last Wednesday (due to the 4th of July on Thursday). “Inside Out 2” […]
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 […]
oh barbenheimer, wherefore art thou this summer?
Since this coming Memorial Day weekend is often considered the start of the summer movie season, I was going to write about all the movies that I planned to see this summer. However, when I […]
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 […]
saidi’s take – 2/28/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: After rising to almost the highest box office weekend of 2024 so far, the box office sunk again approx. 25% this past weekend to the third lowest of 2024 so far with […]
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 – 1/3/2024
Hello everyone, WEEKEND DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: Two movies INCREASED their weekend box office numbers from the previous weekend but only 1 was a Warner Bros movie. “Wonka” rose to #1 for the final weekend of 2023 […]
saidi’s take – 12/19/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The news is saying “Wonka” had a “strong” start making approx. $39 million this weekend. However, that’s A LOT lower than the same weekend last year when “Avatar: The Way of Water” […]
saidi’s take – 10/3/2023
Hello everyone, Domestic Box Office: The box office for the end of Sept/start of October did a little better than the previous weekends thanks to 3 new movies opening wide. The total domestic for the weekend […]
saidi’s take – 8/30/2023
Hello everyone, It’s been awhile since a Warner Bros movie wasn’t #1 at the weekend box office, and Warner Bros seems very upset that “Gran Turismo” was #1 this past weekend. First, they said that […]
saidi’s take – 8/25/2023
Hello everyone, Three BREAKING NEWS items!!! The first breaking news is that “Barbie” is now #1 DOMESTIC MOVIE OF 2023 (so far). As of Wed Aug 23, the total domestic box office for “Barbie” $575.4 […]
saidi’s take – 8/23/2023
Hello Everyone, For the first time since it opened, “Barbie” was knocked out of the #1 position this past weekend. Warner Bros isn’t too upset though because it’s new release “Blue Beetle” was #1. “Blue […]
much ado about barbenheimer
I really wish someone would explain “Barbenheimer” to me. I’m not asking HOW it happened – although I’m sure there’s hundreds of publicity people researching that right now. I want to know WHY it happened. […]
saidi’s take – 8/15/2023
Hello everyone, In the domestic box office, “Barbie” is still leading the way with $33 million which makes it’s domestic total now $526 million which is only approx. $50 million less than the #1 “Super […]
saidi’s take – 8/7/2023
In the domestic box office, “Barbie” is still dominating with approx. $53 million for its 3rd weekend. Its domestic total is now approx. $460 million which makes it #2 for 2023 so far and some people […]
saidi’s take – 8/3/2023
Hello everyone, Both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” had very good second weekends at the box office. On their second weekends, they made about what pre-release predictions said they would make on their opening weekend. “Barbie was […]
saidi’s take – 7/23/2023
Hello everyone, Lots of news to report so today is a special movie news update. I’m going to talk about the box office after the weekend as usual, but the movie theaters and studios are […]
saidi’s take – 4/18/2023
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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