Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: With no new major releases this past weekend, the weekend was one of the lowest of this year with a total of approx. $69 million. Only 1 movie made over $10 million […]
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is it fatigue? or, are marvel movies just dull?
A few weeks ago, “The Marvels” had the lowest opening weekend of any movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) so far and then had the biggest second weekend drop (approx. 77%) of any MCU […]
saidi’s take – 12/5/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Beyonce’s new movie “Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce” opened to a somewhat disappointing $21 million at the domestic box office. It’s funny to see how the news is trying to make it […]
saidi’s take – 11/28/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: At first the news was predicting a race for #1 between “Napoleon” and Wish”, then there was a 3-way race between those 2 movies and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds […]
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 – 11/13/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Things aren’t looking good at the box office. “The Marvels” was #1 this weekend with a disappointing $46 million which is the lowest opening weekend for ANY Marvel movie and approx. 25% […]
saidi’s take – 11/8/2023
Hello everyone, FIRST… This afternoon, the studios made the unusual move of giving the actors an ultimatum for a new deal with the actors. They gave deadline of 5pm PST today (11/8) for the deal to […]
saidi’s take – 11/7/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Since “Dune Part 2” was postponed until next year, this past weekend was one of the lowest box office weekends of the year. No movie made more than $20 million and the […]
saidi’s take – 11/4/2023
Hello everyone, 3 quick news items: BOX OFFICE: After “Dune Part 2” was delayed until next year, there isn’t a major studio release this weekend (although there is a few wide releases from smaller studios) so […]
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 – 10/24/2023
BOX OFFICE: The Taylor Swift movie “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” was #1 this weekend again but the 2nd weekend decline was somewhat staggering. It made approx. $33 million which is an approx. 64% drop. There are […]
saidi’s take – 10/16/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: As expected, the “Taylor Swift Eras Tour” concert film did very well this weekend but it DIDN’T meet predictions. It is the highest opening weekend for a concert film but it wasn’t […]
saidi’s take – 10/14/2023
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The new movie “The Exorcist Believer” was #1 for this past weekend with about $26.5 million but didn’t meet its predictions. Most news are guessing that the people over at Universal are […]
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 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 – 9/23/2023
Hello everyone, However, the bad news is that they’re now ALMOST 5 MONTHS BEHIND SCHEDULE since the strike started on May 2. Most of the movies and TV shows that immediately stopped production were STILL […]
saidi’s take – 9/21/2023
Hello everyone, If you still haven’t seen “Oppenheimer” in IMAX 70mm film, this is your last weekend to see it (it’s a good thing since I hear some showings are only one third full). This […]
saidi’s take – 9/13/2023
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor…. It’s true. I wonder if the success of the movie made up for the failure of the Wonka Bar. Also, years later a company – maybe the same company […]
the good, the bad & the box office
The Good News: 2023 is having a record-breaking box office so far. It started with the incredible billion-dollar box office of “The Super Mario Bros Movie” in the spring. Then the domestic box office for the […]
saidi’s take – 9/5/2023
Hello everyone, The movie is predicted to be so big that THREE MOVIES have changed their release dates. 1) The Lionsgate drama “Ordinary Angles” will no longer open on that date – the new date […]
saidi’s take – 9/1/2023
Hello everyone, Although there is no breaking news like there was last week, there was a few news items from the final week of August. People are starting to get concerned that the strikes will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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