About 15 years ago, there was a fairly good award-winning TV series on HBO named “Boardwalk Empire”. The series was produced by Martin Scorsese and he directed the pilot episode. As I was watching the […]
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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 […]
would you like a movie with your advertisements?
I remember an episode of “The Simpsons” where the Simpson family went to a movie that played so many ads that the crowd – led by Homer Simpson – started chanting “START THE MOVIE! START […]
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 […]
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 […]
and the worst movie scene of the year is…
WARNING: The following has some mild spoilers from “Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1”. Although the scene is very early in the movie (about 20 minutes in – right before the opening credits) so there […]
saidi’s take – 7/26/2023
Hello everyone, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” both soared past their expected grosses. This weekend was the first time ever where 2 different movies beat their box office predictions (usually one movie does well and the 2nd new […]
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 – 7/20/2023
Hello everyone, “Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1” didn’t meet predictions prior to its opening ($90 million 5 day was predicted) but did beat the predictions from the end of last week ($70 million 5 […]
saidi’s take – 7/15/2023
Hello everyone, Actors Strike It’s official. At midnight tonight (west coast time I believe) the actors union is going on strike. This will have MAJOR ramifications for everyone because AMOST every movie, TV show, or […]
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