When it comes to film franchises based on young-adult fiction, we have seen the supernatural trend (Harry Potter, Twilight) of the aughts gradually give way to the dystopian craze sweeping theatres today. The Hunger Games is obviously the genre standard-bearer with its enormous box office returns and great reviews (and ...

As people continued to flock to the two biggest hits of the holiday season, four new wide releases made their debuts in the final weekend of January, to very mixed results. Surprising nobody, the #1 film of the week was Kung Fu Panda 3, which nevertheless had the lowest opening ...

Three new films opened in wide release this weekend, and they all basically made the same unremarkable amount of money. Otherwise, this week’s box office is more of the same. In its fifth weekend (and third in wide release), The Revenant topped the chart for the first time and also ...

Three new films open in wide release this weekend, and it’s more of the same awful-looking comedies and middling genre fare that we tend to see in January. The first of these, and probably the one that will be most successful, is the comedy Dirty Grandpa. Starring Robert De Niro ...