While I have long detested the employment of the phrase “wait for HBO” among critics–as a staunch defender of the theatrical experience, I believe most films are either good enough to warrant a night out or aren’t worth seeing, period–“The Five-Year Engagement” so perfectly fits the cliché that I may have to break with tradition […]
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Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column. After a rough weekend of prognosticating last go-around–all four new films underperformed my expectations, one of them (The Five-Year Engagement) by a wide margin–it’s good that my job is easier this weekend. There is only one opener, Marvel’s The Avengers, and the question is
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Aside from the fact that Think Like a Man is now officially the year’s surprise hit, the box office for wide releases this weekend has been totally uninteresting, with openers The Five-Year Engagement, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Safe, and The Raven all performing worse than expected. Thus, if there’s a story to be told, it’s that the small
Weekend Box Office: Jack Black’s Bernie a bigger winner than all four wide releases Read More »
The box office may have been cooking last weekend, but it appears that the kitchen is now closed. Last week’s big winner Think Like a Man reclaimed the #1 spot, trouncing the competition from four new films, including the Jason Segel/Emily Blunt rom-com The Five-Year Engagement, which I had pegged to gross a strong $26 million
Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column, the second published here at Critic Speak. Last weekend, I did very well with my predictions–in fact, I was one of the few prognosticators to accurately peg that Think Like a Man would be the victor–but I did low-ball the grosses by a bit.
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