Luke Owen on the Ghostbusters reboot… Here’s a fairly unpopular opinion: I quite like reboots and remakes. Just as theatre directors have put their own stamp on the works of William Shakespeare, reboots and remakes allow directors to put their own spin on existing material and come at it from a new perspective. Two of […]
Fantastic Four, Pixels, Jupiter Ascending and Fifty Shades of Grey lead Razzie nominations
Following the Golden Globes and ahead of the Oscar nominations, the annual Razzies have released their nominations this year for the ‘worst of the worst’ of cinema. This year, unsurprisingly, Fantastic Four, Pixels, Jupiter Ascending and Fifty Shades of Grey lead the charge with several nominations each in several categories. Other heavily-nominated films include Mortdecai, Paul […]
10 Box Office Flops From 2015
Luke Owen looks at a few box office flops… It has been a very successful year at the box office for most of the major studios (Disney and Universal have done particularly well), but that doesn’t mean we’ve had a few duds along the way. Not just from a critical standpoint, but also from a […]
Was Pixels really that bad?
Luke Owen looks at Adam Sandler’s latest box office bomb… “It’s the cinematic equivalent of receiving a supermarket brand deodorant gift set on Christmas morning: you don’t want it, you’ll never use it, and frankly, it stinks.” – Chris Blohm, Little White Lies “Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, […]
Sony’s biggest movies of 2015 are all Adam Sandler projects
While he was mocked in the press earlier this year for the poor box office opening of Pixels, Adam Sandler is still a bankable star over at Sony. It’s not been a great year for the studio, but their three biggest domestic releases of 2015 so far have all been Sandler projects. The current top three films are […]
Tom Hardy’s Legend tops the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 11th September to Sunday 13th September 2015… It was all change at the top of the UK box office this past weekend with three newcomers occupying the top spots in the chart, led by the Tom Hardy-headlined Legend, whcih pulled in an impressive […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Minions break Chinese records, Japan boosts Pixels box office
The Chinese box office continues to be a lucrative market for Hollywood, with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Minions enjoying a massive reception upon their releases. Elswhere, Adam Sandler’s Pixels earns good returns in Japan… Tom Cruise-starrer Rogue Nation started with a record-breaking day on its opening last week, with $18.5 million grossed on […]
Straight Outta Compton retains top spot at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 4th September to Sunday 6th September 2015… Despite four new entries cracking the top ten, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton held on to top spot in its second weekend, pulling in £1.37 million to push its UK haul to £5.8 million and […]
The biggest box office flops of summer 2015
2015 may be poised to deliver the second-best summer box office of all time with $4.36 billion and counting, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t big several huge failures on the big screen this year, and The Hollywood Reporter has the inside track on the summer’s box office bombs, and exactly how much they’re projected […]
Straight Outta Compton goes straight to the top of the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 28th August to Sunday 30th August 2015… Having proven a smash hit over in the States, the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton took first place at the UK box office this past weekend, with the F. Gary Gray-directed film pulling in an opening […]
