MCN Originals Archive for August, 2016
Friday Box Office Estimates
The critical gas wasn’t lethal, as Suicide Squad arrives to this summer’s second highest opening day. Even if the film is hamstrung by buzz, even X-Men:Apocalypse did 2.5x opening, which for Squad would mean a $162 million domestic start. Or use the Captain America: Civil War 2.37x Friday weekend as the measure and get to $154 million. Meanwhile, Nine Lives won’t open to nine million.
Read the full article »29 Weeks To Oscar: Let The Wild Rumpus Start
As usual, at this point in the year, the pickings for Oscar already seem light. Lots of presumably good movies. But how much Oscar bait is there in the ocean, really? Let’s just dive in. My first Top 10… in which I feel strongly about the nominations bets on only 3 of these titles. The deck could…
Read the full article » 14 Comments »The DVD Wrapup: Lobster, Mother’s Day, Last Days in Desert, Parched, Female Prisoner Scorpian, Guernica, Louder Than Bombs and more
I don’t know if The Lobster, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2015, is still eligible for Academy Awards consideration in 2016. After playing U.S. festivals and being rescued by A24 from failed distributor Alchemy, it got a limited release in May, and grossed $9 million. It would be a crime if Farrell, at least, wasn’t remembered by Oscar voters.
Read the full article »Review: Suicide Squad (almost no spoilers)
I think that “the industry is making too many comic book movies” is a b.s. claim and/or excuse. The rest of those movies didn’t make this film not work. And I don’t think that management ruined the movie… except for greenlighting it as it is…
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