Film Bitch Awards: Heroes, Villains, and Divas of the Year

It's a mad race to get everything done by the Oscars. Three more categories have been announced in our own extensive annual awards: Hero the Year, Diva of the Year, and Villain of the Year. Black Panther dominates these categories, being nominated in each one of them, but you'll also see honors for Paddington 2, A Simple Favor, Mary Poppins Returns, Hereditary, The Favourite, Aquaman, Oceans 8, and more. Check it out.

Box Office Possible - Fallout

by Nathaniel R

The Mission Impossible franchise (in movie form at least) is 22 years old and just won't quit (and neither will Tom Cruise) having its best opening weekend yet with film #6, Fallout. It's also Cruise's second biggest opening weekend ever after only War of the Worlds (2005). My personal favorite of the M:I franchise is Ghost Protocol from 2011. Yours? 

Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 27th-29th)
W I D E 800+ screens	L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide
Mission: Impossible - Fallout	Blindspotting
1.🔺 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT  $61.5 *NEW* REVIEW	1. 🔺 BLINDSPOTTING $1.3 on 523 screens (cum. $1.7)
2. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $15 (cum. $70.4) REVIEW	2. 🔺 EIGHTH GRADE  $1.3 on 158 screens (cum. $2.9) CAPSULE REVIEW
3. THE EQUALIZER 2 $14 (cum. $64.2)	3.  🔺THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1.2 on 433 screens (cum. $6.7) REVIEW
4. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 $12.3 (cum. $119.2)	4.  LEAVE NO TRACE $499k on 289 screens (cum. $4.6) TRAILER DISCUSSION
5. 🔺 TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES $10.5 *NEW*	5. 🔺 DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $351k on 266 screens (cum. $860k)

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Review Catch-up: Eighth Grade, Ant-Man and the Wasp, etc...

by Nathaniel R

A few recent major pictures we didn't post full reviews on. Oops. Let's take them in order of preference...

Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Synopsis: A slice of life in middle school as an introverted teenager with an unwatched YouTube channel tries to survive eighth grade. 
Capsule: Such is the miracle of this movie that I felt pangs of recognition all throughout it even though I am basically the dad's age and not the daughter's, and also not a parent. I went to middle school a million years ago and so much about life as a teenager has changed radically since then. We didn't have social media, cel phones, and gun drills when I was a teenager...

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What did you see this weekend?

by Nathaniel R

Dinosaurs or a Super Family? That was the big choice for moviegoers this weekend but since The Incredibles 2 had debuted last week to gargantuan numbers a lot of people have already seen it and flocked to the Jurassic World sequel this time despite its terrible reviews. In other box office news Oceans 8 has crossed the $100 million mark, Solo crossed $200 million and Deadpool 2 (BARF!) crossed $300 million proving once again that people have terrible taste. I kid. To each their own...

Weekend Box Office Estimates (June 22-24)
W I D E 800+ screens	L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom	Gotti
1.🔺 JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM $150 *NEW*  REVIEW	1. 🔺 WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? $1.8 on 348 screens (cum. $4.1)
2. INCREDIBLES 2 $80.9 (cum. $350.3)	2. GOTTI $812k on 466 screens (cum. $3.2)
3.🔺OCEANS 8 $11.6 (cum. $100.3)  CATE'S PROMO SUITS	3. 🔺AMERICAN ANIMALS $576k on 339 screens (cum. $1.4)
4. TAG  $8.2 (cum $30.3)	4. RBG $425k on 209 screens (cum. $10.8) REVIEW
5. DEADPOOL 2 $5.2 (cum. $304.1) PODCAST	5. 🔺 HEARTS BEAT LOUD $319k on 104 screens (cum. $795k)

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Box Office: Oceans 8 nabs the loot. Audiences also move into Mr Rogers' Neighborhood.

by Nathaniel R

Weekend Box Office Estimates (June 8-10)
W I D E 800+ screens	L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide
Oceans 8	Won't You Be My Neighbor?
1. 🔺 OCEANS 8 $41.5 *NEW* CATE'S PROMO SUITS	1.  RBG $700K on 375 screens (cum. $9.1)  REVIEW
2. SOLO: $15.1 (cum. $176.1)   REVIEW, BEHIND THE SCENES	2. 🔺FIRST REFORMED $558k on 334 screens (cum. $1.7) REVIEW, ETHAN HAWKE
3. DEADPOOL 2 $13.6 (cum. $278.6)	3. 🔺WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? $470k on 29 screens *NEW*
4.🔺HEREDITARY  $13 *NEW* REVIEW	4. 🔺AMERICAN ANIMALS $234k on 42 screens (cum. $422K)
5. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR $6.8 (cum. $654.7) REVIEW	5.🔺BELIEVER $144k on 32 screens *NEW*

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