As I've written before, whenever any movie not primarily involving white males and/or geek-friendly genres becomes a big hit, the moralizers come out in full...

If you're a Batman fan or a general guy-centric geek, you're probably thinking "That was close... too close". If you're a Twi-fanatic, you're thinking something along...

Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on its first full day of release. This is the biggest single day of all time, besting...

Based on my top-secret, patented box office estimation formula, I hereby state that Twilight Saga: New Moon will gross $81 million over its first...

There will be no predictions, no guesses, and no analysis for the moment. We're just taking a second to do the cold math, using...

Roland Emmerich's 2012 almost made back its $260 million budget in just three days. The domestic opening weekend was a whopping $65.2...

2012
2009
158 minutes
Rated PG-13

by Scott Mendelson

Shock of shocks, Roland Emmerich's 2012 is actually a relatively...

Precious
2009
109 minutes
Rated R

Precious, based on Sapphire's novel Push, is a uniquely...

As expected, Disney's A Christmas Carol opened at number one over the weekend. If the opening weekend number of $30 million feels...

The Men Who Stare At Goats
2009
90 minutes
Rated R

The Men Who Stare at Goats...

A Christmas Carol: The 3D IMAX Experience
2009
96 minutes
Rated PG (for scary sequences and images)

by Scott Mendelson

First off, the facts. Michael Jackson's This Is It grossed $34.4 million in five-days, which gives it a surprisingly high 4.64x multiplier...

This Is It: The IMAX Experience
2009
112 minutes
Rated PG

There is no getting around the obvious exploitation...

Saw VI
2009
91 minutes
Rated R

With Saw VI, we see the surprising sight of a long-running franchise...

In a somewhat shocking turn of events that played out like a season finale of a television series, the long roll-out of Paranormal...

Last Halloween, I took you on a tour of the worst horror films that my wife had forced me to watch over the years. This year, I'm staying positive. Even before the HD boom allowed pretty much everyone to become a filmmaker in their back yard, low-budget horror was...

It was good news for everyone at the box office this weekend. Not only did every major new release open within or above expectations, last...

Where the Wild Things Are: The IMAX Experience
2009
100 minutes
Rated PG

It is often said that

Paranormal Activity
2009
86 minutes (wrongly listed as 99 minutes on most websites)
Rated R

It is a rare thing to...