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The bubble bursts- on Moviepass and the rise of monopoly-class movies
When I started doing these Labor Day summer wrapups five years ago, what I identified — and what plenty of other people identified — was a crashing bubble at the domestic box office, and after a rebound year in 2018, … Continue reading
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Tagged #3D, #avatar, #Avengers, #black panther, #Disney, #george lucas, #iron man, #lucasfilm, #marvel studios, #pixar, #the lion king, Aladdin, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Business Insider, Captain Marvel, Crazy Rich Asians, Dark Phoenix, Endgame, Frozen II, Incredibles 2, Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Labor Day, Men in Black International, Midsommar, Monopoly class movies, MoviePass, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, Us
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The strange, inconclusive summer of 2017
Yeah, I know Labor Day was two weeks ago, fuck off It’s been a summer of transition at the movies. Transition to what? Who knows. There are several narratives to spin based on the number of movies that were released … Continue reading
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Tagged #pirates of the caribbean, #wonder woman, 2017, Annabelle: Creation, Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver, Baywatch, Captain Underpants, Cars 3, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Despicable Me 3, Dunkirk, fuck off, Girls Trip, It Comes at Night, Labor Day, Leap!, Logan Lucky, Rough Night, Spider-Man, The Dark Tower, The Emoji Movie, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The House, The Mummy, The Nut Job 2, Transformers 5, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, War for the Planet of the Apes
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