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New dates: Where Did You Go, Bernadette? 5/11/2018 (not sure if Annapurna will open limited or wide, limited most likely) I Feel Pretty (another Amy Schumer egofest) 6/29/2018 And Adam McKay's Dick Cheney biopic is now titled Backseat, a reference to Cheney's Secret Service codename. I'd probably go...

Baby Driver 2/10 The only good thing that I can is that it's better than Free Fire, another alleged comedy that used a fast-cut trailer and good reviews to sucker me in. This is nothing more than a self-indulgent ad for iPods with more false endings than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Between the ex...

Trailers before Baby Driver

Home Again
The Foreigner
Daddy's Home 2
Pitch Perfect 3
It
Flatliners
The Dark Tower
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (red band)

I'm going to say Wish Upon bombs with just $4 million this week. There's been almost no marketing (I was actually convinced it would be delayed again until I saw theatres selling tickets), it's coming from a financially troubled distributor (if this fails, Villa Capri is either getting pushed again ...

All time, there have been five World War II films that grossed $100 million domestically. All of them had an American main character. And I really don't think older audiences will go see it due to the lack of American characters or appeal and because these are the kinds of people that typically only...

Except Saving Private Ryan was told from the American perspective and involved one of the most famous battles of World War II. Americans know very little about World War II before Pearl Harbor (other than Hitler). The rescue at Dunkirk is probably only known in the States by hardcore history buffs a...

The problem with Dunkirk is that it's a European story made for American audiences. How many Americans are familiar with what happened at Dunkirk? It's going to play in the big cities but there's no audience for this in middle America. In addition, it's a shorter than usual film for Nolan (final run...

On the bright side, Dunkirk's only tracking at $35 million opening weekend (I think it will be lower, even with the 125 70mm prints circulating).

Never even heard of Brigsby Bear. It was a hit at Sundance that Sony paid a decent amount for. Mark Hamill (among others) is in it and The Lonely Island produced it (which probably means it won't make a dent at the box office). The premise is that it's about an adult fan of a children's show trying...

In between watching episodes of Killer Kids (the first season's on Netflix but the other three seasons went to Lifetime so you have to DVR them in the morning), I watched every episode of one of the first online series to really get mainstream attention, The Hire. Though these are basically 10 minut...

Though Marvel financed Spider-Man: Homecoming, they didn't require Sony to run a trailer for a Marvel title (the suggested Disney trailer on the trailer playlists was Black Panther). The Dark Tower was the required attachment while Jumanji and Brigsby Bear (via Sony Pictures Classics) were the optio...

Mike Mignola confirmed it would be a sequel. He's had a lot of control on the films so he'd know. Meanwhile, Saban will release the Schwarzenegger comedy Why We're Killing Gunther so don't expect it to report box office. Also, Lionsgate has pushed Forever My Girl to 1/26/2018 (from 10/27/2017). Not ...

I kind of wish there was a scene told from the perspective of the storms.

Tropical Storm Leonidas: Destroy faster!
Geostorm: I can't, I'm a Geo!

I'll see myself out. There's brownies on the table and Hi-C in the fridge.

I'd probably gone with a picture of Lotso.

Theatre counts: Spider-Man: Homecoming - 4,348 (eleventh widest opener ever) A Ghost Story - 4 City of Ghosts (surprised this isn't in the game, it could have gotten at least four Top 5 points this week) - 2 Meanwhile, Despicable Me 3's record for the widest release ever increases by seven, to 4,536...