Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: Predictions said a possible 3-way race for the top of the domestic box office charts before the weekend started but at the end it was “Avengers Endgame Encore” at the top […]
Tag: marvel
saidi’s take – 9/16/2026
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: For the first time since it opened, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” dropped down to #2 on the domestic box office list, but it has still made enough to be LESS THAN […]
saidi’s take – 9/10/2026
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is STILL the #1 movie at the domestic box office for the 6th weekend but it’s not in the most theaters. “Coyote Vs Acme” added 152 screens so it’s […]
saidi’s take – 8/31/2026
Hello everyone, This post is dedicated to Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Shelley Fabares who all passed away last week. Dolly Parton was the most well-known for her singing career but she also starred in in “9 to 5”, “Steel Magnolias”, […]
saidi’s take – 8/12/2026
Hello everyone, Here are all the records broken during the week last week….. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is the BIGGEST MONDAY EVER at the domestic box office with $47 million AND the 2nd fastest movie to […]
cinemacon 2026
Hello everyone, Here’s the highlights from CINEMACON 2026. SONY PICTURES Sony Pictures CEO and chairman Tom Rothman stressed 3 changes that need to happen for movie theaters. 1) Longer theatrical windows. He called the 35 […]
review – the fantastic four: first steps
Since there were already 2 or 3 attempts to bring the comic book quartet “The Fantastic Four” to the big screen, in this latest reboot – the first time the quartet is in the Marvel […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
review – captain america: brave new world
When a sports team loses some key players, some people say that the following seasons are “rebuilding seasons” so they can build the team back up again. For the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), you could […]
saidi’s take – 2024 box office recap
Hello everyone, It’s time to recap the 2024 box office…. TOP 10 WORLDWIDE OF 2024 Inside Out 2 – $1.698 billion Deadpool and Wolverine – $1.338 billion Despicable Me 4 – $969 million Moana 2 […]
saidi’s take – 10/29/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: The new movie “Venom: The Last Dance” came out below expectations. It was expected to make $60-65 million but it ended up making approx. $51 million over this past weekend. Last weeks […]
2024 summer box office winners and losers
Summer 2024 broke some box office records, but it also had some disappointments. WINNER: “INSIDE OUT 2” Everyone predicted that the Pixar sequel would do well, but it blew past most predictions. The movie is […]
saidi’s take – 7/30/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: It was all about “Deadpool and Wolverine” this past weekend as the movie blew WAY past predictions and broke almost every record for an R rated movie. Biggest domestic opening day for […]
saidi’s take – 7/23/2024
Hello everyone, BOX OFFICE: “Twisters” blew past predictions (of $50-55 million) and made over $81 million this past weekend. It made almost double what the original “Twister” made back in 1996 ($41 million) and it’s just […]
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” […]
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 – 6/15/2023
Hello everyone, Before the weekend some people were predicting that last weeks “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” might be competing with “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” for the #1 spot this weekend, but “Transformers” beat expectations […]
review – guardians of the galaxy vol. 3
I’m a pretty big comic book fan. I go to my local comic book store almost every week to get the new issues of the series that I’m reading. I prefer the standalone comic book […]
Saidi’s Take – 10/17/2022
This past weekend the horror movie “Halloween Ends” made approx. $40 million which was below expectations and the lowest opening of the 3 recent “Halloween” sequels/spinoffs that started with “Halloween” in 2018 – most people […]
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ First Movie Poster Released
Well, talk about striking the iron while it’s hot. And, boy do they keep striking that iron. The odd thing is, they keep connecting. The audiences seem to be in no short supply for the […]
Disney Adds Iron Man To Mickey Mouse Roster
Well, if there’s one thing Disney does well, it is their marketing machine. I’d go so far as to say that the studio the mouse built places a very distant secondary priority on the actual […]
