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The Möbius strip: Krampus surprises, awards start rolling in

Posted on December 8, 2015 by reelentropy

As with last week, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took the crown with an unimpressive total — $18.9 million — but the real story is the surprising runner up, Krampus. The weekend’s only wide release was expected to settle for the no. 4 spot far behind Mockingjay, The Good Dinosaur and Creed with less than $10 million, but it stunned with $16.3 million. Good Dinosaur fell to no. 3 with $15.3 million, and Creed to no. 4 with $15 million- Box Office Mojo

With its surprising performance, thoughts turn to Krampus’ franchise potential- The Wrap

The Good Dinosaur was expected to compete with Mockingjay for the top spot, but instead was neck and neck with Creed and ended up at no. 3. The movie is suddenly looking like Pixar’s first ever financial misstep- Variety

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Documented entropy: Spotlight

Posted on December 5, 2015 by reelentropy

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Documented entropy: Spectre

Posted on December 3, 2015 by reelentropy

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The Möbius strip: Most films continue to disappoint, Star Wars on track for record-shattering opening

Posted on December 1, 2015 by reelentropy

As expected, part two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay took its second crown with $76 million over the five day weekend. The film is still tracking well behind its predecessors. The Good Dinosaur opened in second place to a similar paradox — its three day and five day totals, $39.2 million and $55.5 million, are both the fourth highest all time for Thanksgiving weekend, but its three day total represents Pixar’s lowest opening since the studio’s first film, Toy Story, in 1995. In third place, Creed had the highest opening ever for a Rocky film with a $29.6 million three day total and a $42.1 million five day total. The last new release, Victor Frankenstein, had one of the worst wide releases of all time, collecting just $3.6 million over the five day weekend, good for 12th place behind Oscar hopefuls Spotlight and Brooklyn, which are each playing in fewer than 1,000 theaters. Victor Frankenstein was expected to take in around $12 million and earn fourth or fifth place- Box Office Mojo

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Creed could have been excellent, isn’t

Posted on November 29, 2015 by reelentropy

Liked that incredible one-shot fight we did? Well, here’s a slow motion shot of Johnson yelling while he runs! Totally the same thing. Photos courtesy Warner Bros.

Hailed as the best movie of the year, Creed is exactly the kind of overlong, deliriously predictable feature that comes away with its accolades for all the wrong reasons.

The movie follows Donnie Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) from the first few Rocky movies. Johnson is a successful coorporate climber in his early 20s, but gives it all up to pursue a boxing career because, as much as he wants to stay out of his father’s shadow, he also wants to follow in his footsteps. No one will train him, so he moves from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to train under his father’s old rival and friend, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in another display of blatantly taking advantage of his heritage while also saying he doesn’t want to take advantage of it. As Balboa trains Johnson, Ricky Conlon (Tony Bellew), the light heavyweight champion of the world, has an opponent drop out due to injury, and selects the unproven main character to take his place, which, if you remember, is the exact plot from Rocky.

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The Möbius strip: Krampus surprises, awards start rolling in

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Creed could have been excellent, isn’t

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