A crowded holiday weekend at the box office is shaping up to be a potential record breaker. Warner Bros. wisely chose this weekend to expand American Sniper [AMSNP] as the R-rated drama secured six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Bradley Cooper [BCOOP]. Clint Eastwood [CEAST] directed the R-rated war drama about the real-life soldier Chris Kyle, a tragic story that appeals to both liberals and conservatives. Last year, another movie about U.S. military heroics...
Warner Bros. has uploaded the second, full-length trailer for the comedy Get Hard [GHARD] pairing the tall, white Will Ferrell [WFERR] with the short, black Kevin Hart [KHART]. Hilarity ensues onMarch 27th.
When millionaire hedge fund manager James (Will Ferrell) is nailed for fraud and bound for a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell (Kevin Hart) to prep him for a life behind bars. But despite James&rsquo...
The nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced earlier today. The Hollywood Stock Exchange offered NominOptions for the leading contenders in the top eight categories and HSX traders collectively successfully predicted 90% of the Oscar nominees this year. Here's how each category broke down.
The Best Picture race has 8 nominees this year: American Sniper [N5PAMS], Birdman [N5PBRD], Boyhood [N5PBOY], Selma [N5PSEL], The Grand Budapest Hotel [N5PGBH], The Imitation Game [N5PTIG]...
Fox has dropped the greenband trailer as well as the redband trailer for the action comedy Spy [SCOPR]. Reuniting with The Bridesmaid director Paul Feig, Melissa McCarthy [MMCCA] stars as a CIA analyst who finally hits the field to track down a high-value target, played by Rose Byrne [RBYRN]. Jude Law [JLAW] and Jason Statham [JSTAT] co-star in Spy, which arrives in theaters on May 22nd.
Universal has revealed the theatrical trailer for the found-footage horror film Unfriended [CYBRN], which was previously known as Cybernatural. Unfolding over computer screens, six high school friends are stalked by an unseen figure supposedly from a classmate who committed suicide a year ago. Now she seeks vengeance against those who had bullied and shamed her. Unfriended hits theaters on April 17th.
Disney has uploaded a new trailer for the Marvel sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron [AVNG2], which premiered during the College Football National Championship game. While new footage are shown, most are just additional shots from the same scenes already revealed in the first teaser. Why try something different when the fanboys are already sold anyways. Avengers: Age of Ultron takes over the world on May 1st.
Closing out the action trilogy with just a little drop-off, Taken 3 [TAKE3] earned an estimated $40.4 million to top the weekend box office. The opening is the second best ever for January behind only Ride Along's $44.5 million. The audience broke down 64% male and 54% over the age of 25.
Selma [SELMA] finished second in its wide expansion with $11.2 million. The historical drama attracted a crowd that was 61% female and 83% was over the age of 25.
Sony has released the full-length trailer for the sci-fi film Chappie [CHAPI] on Apple. Die Antwoord, Dev Patel [DPATE], Sigourney Weaver [SWEAV] and Hugh Jackman [HJACK] star in the film directed by Neil Blomkamp [NBLOM]. While the first trailer was reminiscent of Short Circuit, the latest trailer looks more or less like another RoboCop.
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come...
Warner Bros. has unleashed the trailer for the thriller Run All Night [ALNIT]on Apple. Liam Neeson [LNEES] and Joel Kinnaman [JKINN] star as estranged father and son, who must work together to stay alive while fighting back against the mob and staying a step ahead of the police. Ed Harris [EHARR] and Vincent D'Onofrio [VDONO] co-star in Run All Night, which hits theaters on April 17th.
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon (Neeson), once known as The Gravedigger, has seen...
As holdover films from 2014 continue to make bank, a new 2015 entry is poised to seize the box office crown. Liam Neeson [LNEES] is back with his particular set of skills in the action sequel Taken 3 [TAKE3]. The 2009 original opened to $24.7 million and made Neeson a new action star. The 2012 sequel cemented that status with a $49.5 million debut. However, the third and final PG-13 rated outing is likely to trend downward. While Taken 2 could riff off Taken, the story is pretty...
