The land rush for Steve Jobs biopics may be at an end – Steve Jobs, the latest Oscar-bait contender for telling the story of the man who chained us to smartphones, has been pulled from more than 2,000 US theatres. Last Updated: November 10, 2015
Knowing that we’re getting to see Spectre almost last in the entire world already hurts real bad, but now just to add insult to injury it appears that everybody in Europe and their dog ]has gone to see it already. Well, maybe if they allowed dogs in cinemas that statement could be 100% factually correct, but lets just say that …
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and kept on hootin’ and hollerin’ about getting some tickets!” Star Wars is practically a religion. Hell, for just under 400 000 people in the UK, it officially is a religion. So when ticket sales opened worldwide on Monday morning, herded on …
Any movie fan knows by now that there are two measures for a film’s box office success: domestic and everything else. Domestic always referred to the American box office, for good reason. It has dominated earnings and even regions such as Europe could not compare to the amount Americans spend to watch movies. Last Updated: September 8, 2015
Breaking box office records is usually followed by the popping of champagne, singing and dancing, maybe even a celebratory bagel or two. Usually. Unfortunately it is also possible to break the totally wrong kind of record as one particular film discovered this weekend past. EW is reporting that We Are Your Friends, the latest flick starring Zac Efron, only managed …
Good news everyone! Universal Pictures is heaving one hell of a year! Bad news for everyone who hates certain overused promotional chew-toys however, as their latest success comes from Minions, the Despicable Me spin-off which is has become a license to print money. And bananas. Minions has now crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide at the box office, having grossed an estimated …
2015 is shaping up to be a massive year at the US box office, possibly even the biggest ever thanks to some gigantic blockbusters already released and two of the potentially biggest releases ever (Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Spectre) still to come. In short: there are a whole lot of people counting a whole lot of money over …
Pixels is easily one of the best movies of the year. Which is something that I’d say while more drool than usual spilled out of my mouth had I been involved with a head-on collision with a truck carrying a whole load of Jack Daniels: Liver Suicide Edition. Pixels is in fact, one of the worst movies of the year, …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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