By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Although the summer movie season officially kicks off this weekend with the release of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” in theaters, in some ways it feels like blockbuster season has already started. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” served as an early kick-off on April 4,
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Watch out, Iron Man and Thor — the gauntlet has been thrown. Though the two Avengers may have had stronger origin films, it’s Captain America who has the best sequel, wrapping up Marvel’s Phase Two solo Avenger films with a politically-tinged thriller that’s tense,
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Trying to guess what movies will become hits isn’t an exact science. Sometimes a film will come seemingly out of nowhere — like Disney’s recent animated musical “Frozen” — and become a huge hit at the box office, while other times even an A-list
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Not long ago, young adult book-to-movie adaptations were a hot commodity in Hollywood. The supernatural teen romance “Twilight” and its sequels made millions at the box office, and the post-apocalyptic thriller “The Hunger Games” made a star of Jennifer Lawrence and generated huge amounts
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Yes, I’ll admit that by now, I’m probably one of the last people to watch the movie “Frozen.” 😉 Disney’s latest animated musical, released in theaters in late November, became a surprise box office hit, only the second animated movie in Hollywood’s history to
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Summer has traditionally been the time when Hollywood rolls out its biggest blockbusters. However, with the increasingly crowded release schedule in May through August, studios have begun to shift some of those opening dates to the springtime. Films like the first “Hunger Games” have
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Not as good as it could have been, but not as bad as it could have been, either — that seems to be the critical consensus on the new “RoboCop” film. It’s currently sitting at about 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics evenly
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz It’s been more than a decade since CIA analyst Jack Ryan last appeared on the big screen. The character — created by military thriller author Tom Clancy — has been played, at times, by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, and was last seen in
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz The year 2015 is already getting a lot of buzz for a multitude of high-profile films — the next Avengers movie, Jurassic Park 4, Batman vs. Superman, the return of James Bond, and (finally!) a new Star Wars movie. However, there are a number
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz In 2012, “The Avengers” was the king of the box office. It was that one movie everyone was talking about, the one everybody felt they had to see opening weekend, and it ended up near the top of the all-time highest grossing movies list.
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz At the end of the first “Hobbit” movie, “An Unexpected Journey,” Bilbo Baggins remarks to Thorin and his band of dwarves that “I do believe the worst is behind us.” Although the travelers have already survived several Orc attacks and a foray into a
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz “There are no winners, only survivors.” Those haunting words, spoken by a former “Hunger Games” victor, sum up the sobering truth about the games. In a post-apocalyptic North American society, teenagers — known as “tributes” — are forced to fight in a yearly televised
