Movies are made by quality story writing, sublime direction, and quality acting. However, the facet that completes a film, and makes it a piece of art is the score, and the music. While many composers can create music to fit the film, a great music director can integrate the original score with popular, or perhaps [...]
The usually quiet September box office got a surprisingly big boost from the release of the family film Hotel Transylvania, which made a record $43 million in its first weekend. The action film Looper finished second at the box office, while fellow new releases Pitch Perfect, and Won’t Back Down all finished in the top [...]
A slow four day weekend saw the debut of three wide releases, two which performed fine while one was a failure of historic proportions. The Possession led the way with $21.3 million followed by Lawless which debuted with $13 million. The poorly promoted family film Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure set a record for [...]
The Expendables 2 took its second straight week at the top of the box office charts; however the film industry as a whole massively underperformed over the weekend of August 24th. Despite the release of three new films, not a single one finished inside the top six for the weekend. The top 12 films in [...]
When the Hunger Games first opened in theatres this March, no one expected it to do the business it did, first opening to $152 million and then going on to gross over $405 million (which is also #12th on the all-time domestic gross chart). Not only that, but it managed to live up to the [...]