My favorite time of year at the movies is the summer, and while the field has shifted in recent years as far as when summer season starts and ends and when big-budget films get released, the term “blockbuster” is still synonymous with the season, as seen with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” kicking things… Continue reading 2023 Summer Box Office Predictions
I recently wrote about the biggest box office bombs in the history of the summer movie season, so I think it is only fair and just to talk about something positive in relation to the topic. So my friend suggested that I breakdown the most iconic and influential films when it comes to the summer… Continue reading History of the Summer Blockbuster
Since 2020 will have an (at best) abridged summer movie season, and blockbusters typically go hand-in-hand with this time of year, I thought it would be fun to do a list of the biggest bombs in the history of Hollywood’s biggest season. For this list, I will be exposing the biggest money losers released between… Continue reading Biggest Summer Box Office Flops of All-Time
If you’re like me, you’re fascinated not only with movies but with the box office. It’s fun to see surprise hits (“Get Out”), Cinderella stories (“Parasite”) and record-breakers (“Avengers: Endgame”), but for me it is far more interesting to dissect when things go wrong. Not that I wish harm on any film, making movies is… Continue reading Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2020
Some people love Oscar season but for me, nothing will ever beat the summer movie season. It’s hard to beat going into an air-conditioned theater in the middle of the summer heat and seeing a blockbuster on the big screen. And with the summer season comes another big aspect: box office draws (and flops). Here… Continue reading 2019 Summer Box Office Predictions
Back in April I made box office projections for this summer. Now that September is upon us and enter into awards season it is time to look back and see how I did with my estimates (in order of release date). For each film, I’ll list my Projections for the film’s domestic opening weekend and… Continue reading 2018 Summer Box Office Recap
The box office is one of my favorite aspects of the film industry and the summer movie season is the best time for the box office, full of blockbusters, bombs and fun little surprises. As I’ve done in previous years, I will try and predict the domestic opening weekend and total worldwide grosses of the… Continue reading 2018 Summer Box Office Predictions
As we put 2017 in the rearview mirror, a year full of big hits but many box office bombs, we look ahead to 2018. It appears that tentpoles and blockbusters will again dominate ticket sales and conversations so just as I did last year I thought it would be fun to predict some of the… Continue reading 2018 Box Office Predictions
Back in April I made box office projections for this summer. Now that we’re wrapping up the heat and enter into awards season–ending on the lowest-grossing weekends in 15 years, I should add–let’s look back and see how I did (in order of release date). For each film, I’ll list my Projections for the film’s… Continue reading 2017 Summer Box Office Recap
With “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” becoming the latest big-budget bomb at the box office this weekend, opening to $17 million against its $209 million budget, it got me thinking. How much is too much for a film to cost? What films should get the six digit budgets and moreover what goes… Continue reading What a Movie Should Cost: A Look at Box Office Bombs
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