filmlover

The Watchers definitely stands out as the most unexpected appearance on that list, especially when much more expensive titles like Furiosa and Twisters are nowhere to be found.

Civil War should post fine enough numbers and doesn't seem nearly as reliant on targeted festival buzz since it has a slew of notable names involved and has been building buzz in general for a while. Monkey Man was going to be a streaming exclusive until it shifted gears not even 12 weeks ago.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes was one of the wild cards of that summer considering nobody really knew how much demand there still was for the IP following the meh reception to the Tim Burton/Mark Wahlberg remake a decade earlier (it had lackluster for 2001 staying power after posting the second-biggest opening ever at the time). That it ended up doing as well it did felt like a testament to the movie's surprisingly strong quality. Whether this will live up to that excellent trilogy is probably going to be what ultimately ends up making or breaking this.

The AI vibes are certainly strong with that poster, I'll give it that lol. I still can't decide if I want this movie to be actually good or the hottest of messes. Probably both.

The marketing for Monkey Man is definitely leaning on Peele's name, almost as much as the Candyman legacy sequel (which he produced and co-wrote but didn't direct) did. Given that this was a movie that was added super late to the schedule I would consider a $12M opening to be a decent number.

The saying "birds of a feather flock together" certainly carries some weight. But just remember that as much of a right they may have to say such idiocy, we have just as much of one to laugh at them for it. Nelson Peltz should probably consider himself lucky that he's not famous enough to be spoofed on SNL (and deliver a thin-skinned response to the parody, as those who fall on the conservative side tend to do when made fun of on that show).

Because clowns like him (and there are a depressingly not insignificant amount of them out there) have no shame announcing their bigotry to the world. Simple as that.

A Real Pain has been dated for Q4. Academy Award Nominee Kieran Culkin is about to become a reality!

Abigail showtimes are starting to appear but aren't on sale yet, starts at 5:00 that Thursday.

Can we mention about the random 70s/80s music cues in this? Like what the hell lmao. So jarring. The obvious influence that Guardians of the Galaxy has had on the whole blockbuster filmmaking genre over what is about to be an entire decade since it was released is truly quite something.

Bob Marley: One Love was such a strange, clearly watered-down movie. Imagine if Bohemian Rhapsody ended right as Mercury was approaching the stage before that Live Aid sequence that fueled that movie's WOM. That's literally what we get here.

Columbia's definitely off to a rough 100th anniversary celebration with Madame Web and Ghostbusters being nonstarters. We'll see if that ends up being true for their entire 2024 slate.

This ended up being a pretty strong March overall. Ghostbusters the only movie to truly miss expectations (and even then, no one can claim the writing wasn't on the wall for it in advance).

A- Dune: Part Two B- Kung Fu Panda 4 Mean Girls C Bob Marley: One Love Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire C- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire D+ Argylle

Really loud and really dumb, but I didn't find this nearly as much fun or as ridiculous as it should've been. I'm sure fans of kaiju battles will enjoy themselves just fine, but for me, it's hard to get invested in a bunch of giant monsters causing billions of dollars in property damage (and almost certainly plenty of casualties) when there's so little dramatic urgency present (with actors, both returning and new to the series, too talented for the material once again showing up as the ultimately thankless humans). Also, I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly annoying that these movies so obviously favor one of the two main titans over the other, right? Godzilla only appears in this movie whenever the script needs him to, not because he's actually integral to the King Kong-centered plot. At least the CGI is superb, as expected, The biggest issue this has, though, is that it comes on the heels of the vastly superior Godzilla Minus One. That movie actually has stakes and heart to it in addition to the state-of-the-art visual effects (on a much smaller budget to boot), rendering these movies as pale imitators that often come across as less insufferable versions of the Michael Bay Transformers movies but with giant monsters instead of giant robots. C

Because the Spider-Man movies are already scratching that itch well enough.

MGM has been marketing it big time though and the movie is still almost a month away. If it tanks, lack of awareness definitely won't be the reason.

Special congratulations to WB for turning a pair of pandemic era day-and-date casualties into major theater events. Some much needed good news for the studio away from the shelved projects and so on.

IF is the next movie directly targeting families but since it's only one week before Garfield, the amount of time of having very little competition is about the same.

I always thought a total close to the '06 remake (which itself was heavily boosted by a highly gimmicky release date) would've been a major win for it. The Omen as an IP doesn't seem to carry the same relevancy today as other horror franchises, especially when it's religiously-themed and horror movies like that are a dime a dozen (one is even playing in theaters right now).