Link Ch. 8 – Top of the Movie Box Office
As members of the audience, the actual amount of money a movie makes at the box office probably shouldn’t matter to us. All we ought to care about is whether we liked the movie. But with box office...
View ArticleLink Ch. 8 – Tyler Perry’s Hollywood Success
Vanity Fair – Tyler Perry was the number #2 African American Hollywood star for 2010 Never mind the fact that he actually lives in Atlanta…. Box Office Mojo – The box office success of Tyler Perry...
View ArticleWomen and the Movies 2013 Part 1 – Bechdel Test Movies
There’s long been the argument made that the reason that movies primarily feature male characters is that these types of movies make more money than those that have prominent female characters. For...
View ArticleBox Office Mojo mysteriously disappears/reappears
Box Office Mojo, the source of endless movie box office financial statistics, disappeared for a couple of days in mid-October 2014, prompting speculation that the site had been absorbed into IMDb.com,...
View ArticleEveryone’s Gone to the Movies
We’re headed into the heart of summer, and that makes this a great time to talk about the movies. Film composer James Horner dies in plane crash James Horner, best known for his score for Titanic, died...
View ArticleStar Wars VII tops Avatar as #1 North American Box Office
And we’re back for 2016. Hope you all had an enjoyable holiday break! So it really isn’t any surprise that Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens is now the number one movie moneymaker of all time for the...
View ArticleEveryone’s Gone to the Movies – The Year Sequels Didn’t Rule
It is almost fall, but it still seems like the summer movie season has a little time yet to go before we jump into the doldrums that lie in between the blockbusters and the late-fall/early-winter Oscar...
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