Weekend Forecast: Can Massive-Budget ‘Revenant’ Find Mainstream Success?

After two very strong weeks in limited release, massive budgeted Frontier epic The Revenant finally goes wide. Meanwhile, The Forest also opens, while Star Wars will easily take first again. The Revenant more than doubled its original production budget during production, going from a reasonable $65M to a whopping $135M. 20th Century Fox does seem to have quite …

Weekend Report: ‘Star Wars’ Repeats, ‘Hateful Eight’ Solid

(Apologies for the lack of updates recently. This was due to the holidays, and updates will return normally) Star Wars: The Force Awakens easily held on to first place for a third week in a row, despite a slew of competition and a solid opening from the new Quentin Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight. Anomalisa and The Revenant …

Weekend Report: ‘Star Wars’ Leads Record Christmas Weekend

Between an excellent hold from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and a handful of interesting newcomers, moviegoers turned out in massive audiences for the biggest Christmas weekend on record. In fact, this is actually the second highest grossing weekend ever (judged by the top 12 combined) and is only behind last weekend. What a time to …

Weekend Report: ‘Star Wars’ is the Chosen One

After endless months of speculation and predictions, Star Wars: The Force Awakens blew away all previous record holders with an unbelievable $238M domestic opening weekend. Meanwhile, Sisters and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip had to settle for scraps. Yes, they did it. Disney's first in what is sure to be many Star Wars films crushed the previous weekend holder …

Saturday Update: ‘Star Wars’ Makes History

They did it. Star Wars: The Force Awakens made history on its opening day, crushing the previous opening day record by a long shot. It also made more the previous December opening (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) in just one day. The film sold nearly 14 million tickets, averaging more than 3,000 per theater. We're …

Bombs and Blockbusters Special Forecast – ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

This is it. The big one. The one we've all been waiting for for months upon months. Endless speculation, predictions, comparisons, leaks, and questions have all lead up to the most anticipated film of all time: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Expectations have been all over the board. Several months ago it seemed like it would be …