Hollywood is celebrating a record year at the North American box office, with THR reporting that 2016’s releases grossed $11.36 billion combined, up 2.1% from 2015’s previous record of $11.14 billion. Disney led the way with the three biggest releases of the year in Finding Dory ($486 million), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($430 […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2016
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2016… As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth’s writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months. As always, we’ve voted on our individual top ten […]
The Highest Grossing Movies of 2016
Luke Owen charts the highest grossing movies of 2016… The box office battle of 2016 is now in the books, and Disney are the ones wearing the king’s crown. Their domestic totals are very impressive, and their worldwide takings are even better. As with the opening weekends, The House of Mouse holds six of the […]
The Biggest Opening Weekends of 2016
Luke Owen charts the biggest opening weekends of 2016… It’s fair to say that 2016 has been rather disappointing in terms of the quality of movie delivered, and the biggest opening weekend for 2016 would have been fourth last year behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron. With that […]
Disney becomes the first studio to gross $7 billion in a single year at the global box office
With a string of hits under its belt, 2016 had already been a stellar year for Walt Disney Pictures at the global box office, but thanks to the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the House of Mouse has become the first studio to break the $7 billion mark in a single year, […]
Why Does Everyone Like Films With Talking Animals In?
This week, Neil Calloway looks at what connects four of the top five films of the year… It came in a pub quiz question last week – what do four of the top five films of 2016 have in common? I got it wrong – I said they were all based on comic books. It […]
A record 27 films submitted for the Best Animated Feature Oscar
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced that a record 27 movies have been submitted for consideration for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 89th Academy Awards: The Angry Birds Movie April and the Extraordinary World Bilal Finding Dory Ice Age: Collision Course Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV Kubo and the Two […]
Disney has record-breaking year at the box office
This won’t come as much of a surprise given that they already have four of the top five highest-grossing movies of the year in Captain America: Civil War, Zootopia, Finding Dory and The Jungle Book but The Walt Disney Company has announced that it has had its biggest-ever year at the worldwide box office with $5.85 […]
Blu-ray Review – Zootopia (2016)
Zootopia, 2016. Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush. Featuring the voices talents of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Bonnie Hunt, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Don Lake and Tommy Chong. SYNOPSIS: Disney Animation does it again with a story that treads familiar thematic ground but serves up a fresh, inventive […]
Disney’s Zootopia hits $1 billion at the worldwide box office
Disney is celebrating today, with the animated feature Zootopia (or Zootropolis, to us here in the UK) reaching the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office this weekend. Zootopia is the second film to hit the milestone this year after fellow Disney release Captain America: Civil War, and is also Disney Animation Studios’ second […]
