Soderbergh scores another No. 1 movie
No one went to the movies last weekend, Super Bowl weekend. While weekend averages have been low this year, about $82 million per weekend, Super Bowl...
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Shyamalan’s ‘Knock at Cabin’ takes No. 1
M. Night Shyamalan’s 15th feature film, Knock at the Cabin, took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office last weekend, selling a decent $14.2 million...
Difficult to predict this year’s Oscars
Set to air March 12 with Jimmy Kimmel as host, the 95th Academy Awards will be the 15th year this column has covered the Oscars. The show has changed...
Feeling blue about ‘Avatar’ being No. 1
It’s happening. Right now. The film world is turning a corner. The industry has known for a long while that you sell more tickets with a sequel than...
Spielberg shines at Golden Globes
After taking last year off, and after losing just about any credibility the organization had remaining, the Golden Globes Awards returned this month...
Expect cold returns on winter movies
In last week’s column, I wrote about some of the more exciting films we know are coming out over the course of 2023. For a less slanted perspective,...
Lot of films to look forward to this year
The most labor-intensive edition of ScreenTime I write each year tends to be the first column, when I attempt to look at the year ahead and make predictions...
Box office gold in 2022 was fool’s gold
In my very expert opinion, 2022 will go down as a good year for television, a (surprisingly) great year for music (especially non-mainstream hip-hop),...
Cameron too good for ‘Avatar’ films
This weekend will see the release of what might end up being the “Movie Event of the Year.” James Cameron’s ninth narrative feature film, Avatar: The...
Coogler remains on top with ‘Wakanda’
The weekend following Thanksgiving weekend is often on the slow side, but whoa, this past weekend was especially slow, with Black Panther: Wakanda...