Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 1:00PM by Nathaniel R
on the set of Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Visual Effects Society have released their nominations for the year. Avengers: Infinity War, Incredible 2, and Lost in Space lead the nominations in the movie, animated movie, and television divisions. The full list of nominations, Oscar predictions, and a few comments follow...
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 4:50PM by Nathaniel R
Avengers 4 (or 5 if you count Captain America: Civil War, which you probably should) finally has a title: Avengers Endgame. Yay, superhero movies are ending! (Just kidding in two ways. They're obviously not over and I like 'em even while I wish they weren't the dominant moviegoing culture.)
But anyway, you know what would be truly truly thrilling? If Marvel Studios and Disney were brave enough to not release ANY more footage from Avengers: Endgame beyond this teaser. Why waste all the money on advertising and spoil the visual reveals when everyone is already going to see the movie? Avengers: Infinity War grossed 2 billion worldwide making it the highest-grossing movie of 2018. There's no reason to believe that Endgame couldn't do the same even without the hardsell.
The teaser is after the jump...
Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 9:23AM 
Team Experience members were invited to give thanks this week so you'll be hearing from a few of us. Here's your host Nathaniel R...
2018 was an unusually hard year for your host, given that he was starting over in his offline life after a painful breakup so first things first. I'm so goddamn grateful for The Film Experience. Thank YOU all for reading (especially those who donate to keep us on life support- see sidebar) and for being such a faithful community. This labor of love site is a continual source of pleasure and stability for me personally and I always aim to make it so for you, too. Before I get to the individual entertainment gratitude I also want to thank the Team Experience regulars: Murtada, Chris, Jason, Glenn, Jorge, Lynn, Eric, Dancin' Dan, Spencer, John & Matthew, and those we don't hear from much at the moment (life is so rude like that) but who we're always happy to work with like Nick, Ilich, Salim, Tim, Deborah, Séan, Daniel, Ben, Katey, and Joe. And both warm hugs to those who've moved on and nervous waving at those yet to come; they're out there somewhere and must make themselves known soon!
I will now attempt to give entertainment thanks without completely repeating my esteemed colleagues in their fun posts even though I love several of the movies they already spoke of. Okay in 2018 I was ever so grateful for:
• The continual shapeshifting of A Simple Favor from comedy to noir to mystery to camp spectacle to romcom to satire. It was such a great film to take friends to since it was so funny and surprising and memorable with it genre juggling. And Blake Lively's ultra modern wardrobe paired with Old Hollywood star charisma was something else...
Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 6:00PM by Nathaniel R
It's probably foolish to continue to poke fun at The Academy for their desperation in wanting to honor "Popular Achievements" but we can't help ourselves. It's so redundant. Box office success is its own reward and has nothing to do with "best" really, just with "success of brand awareness" and "delivering what people are expecting". The charts prove that it's getting more and more rare for an original picture to make it into the year end top ten. Even in the summer, with a much smaller field of contenders, it's still really hard for any movie that isn't a sequel to be one of "the most popular." Summer movie season kicked off on April 27th with The Avengers and ends right about now on Labor day weekend.
Herewith the TEN biggest hits of Summer 2018... How many of them did you see and if you controlled all box office, how much would they have earned?
| SUMMER TOP TEN (Figures as of 9/2/2018) |
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1. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (April 27th) $678+ It was always going to be huge but the phenomenon of Black Panther helped push it way way over the gross of the preceding Avengers picture which made $459 domestic. (Global Gross to Date: $2 billion... the first Marvel movie to ever do that... Black Panther grossed $1.3 billion globally though it's a bigger hit than Infinity War in the US) |
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2. INCREDIBLES 2 (June 15th) $601+ Proving that audiences were really impatient for a sequel to the 2004 smash, they turned out in droves 14 years later, the rose still in full bloom (Global Gross to date: $1.1 billion) |
Monday, May 7, 2018 at 8:00AM by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (May 4th-6th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Infinity War |
 RBG |
| 1. 🔺 Avengers: Infinity War $112.4 (cum. $450.8) REVIEW |
1. 🔺 RBG $560k on 34 screens NEW REVIEW |
| 2. 🔺 Overboard $14.7 NEW | 2. 🔺 102 Not Out $480k on 102 screens NEW |
| 3. A Quiet Place $7.6 (cum. $159.8) REVIEW, SECOND OPINION, SCREENPLAY |
3. 🔺 Disobedience $310k on 31 screens (cum. $638k) REVIEW |
| 4. I Feel Pretty $4.9 (cum. $37.7) |
4. The Death of Stalin $181k on 200 screens (cum. $7.4) REVIEW |
| 5. Rampage $4.6 (cum. $84.7) |
5. The Rider $141k on 47 screens (cum. $567k) REVIEW |
