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Box Office Power Rankings: Welcome to Summer
A run of sequels is supposed to die a slow death, with waning interest as a series progresses. What, then, explains the $71-million opening-weekend take of Fast and Furious? I know everybody has...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Obligation Cinema
Thank Gods (I’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, although to say I’ve been enjoying it would be an overstatement) that with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the summer movie season is finally here....
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Box Office Power Rankings: First Impressions of Summer 2009
The conventional wisdom says that among the early entrants in the summer 2009 sweepstakes, Star Trek is a hit (and a winner in its first three weekends in our Box Office Power Rankings), Wolverine is...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Always a Groomsman
You have to feel a little sorry for the poor bastards of The Hangover. With all the trials they endured, in our Box Office Power Rankings they end up sniffing the ass of an old man. For a month. And...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Nice Legs!
In nine weekends of release, The Hangover has finished in second place seven times in the Box Office Power Rankings. This past weekend, The Hangover passed Star Trek’s $254 million — which means it’s...
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Box Office Power Rankings: The Opportunity Cost of Blockbusters
District 9 rightly got a lot of attention. No stars! $30-million production budget! Good special effects! Great reviews! Strong word of mouth! A $37-million opening weekend! It’s a compelling story,...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Paranormal, Indeed
Over the past seven weekends, Culture Snob’s Box Office Power Rankings were won by Quentin Tarantino (twice), Tyler Perry, Meatballs (twice), and zombies (twice). No one could have possibly known that...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Not Exactly a Wild Rumpus
Should we consider Spike Jonze’s and Dave Eggers’ adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a disappointment? It is certainly not a miserable failure. It received good reviews, won the box office when it...
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Box Office Power Rankings: Eye of the Beholder
As people tell us time and time again, box-office performance is in the eye of the beholder. Box Office Mojo wrote that Michael Jackson’s This Is It, in its debut weekend, did “exceptionally well for a...
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Box Office Power Rankings: The Darkening "Twilight"
The Box Office Power Rankings do not like the Twilight movies. We are not fooled by the excitement or ticket-buying power of teenage girls. We are on Team No One. (Did I do that right?) Neither movie...
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