'Gatsby' Not Great Enough to Defeat 'Iron Man'
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're not ready for flapper girls to be a thing again. How depressingly 2010.
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Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we know The Next Generation is clearly the superior television show.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're not ready for flapper girls to be a thing again. How depressingly 2010.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're ready to declare Marvel the rulers of the summer movie season. No mas. Mercy. We surrender.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're reluctant to live in a world where The Rock is a real movie star.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where it's been a while. Let's get reacquainted, shall we?
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're never astounded by America's appetite for blood and guts on the big screen.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're trying to figure out if the The Rock even lifts, bro.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're always thinking about Rick Moranis' lasting contributions to cinema.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Steve Carell's career was the only thing Burt Wonderstone ever made disappear. Poof! Just like that, it was gone.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where James Franco opens at number one in our heart every week.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're still recovering from seeing all of last year's financial disasters.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Bruce Willis came at the Queen but he definitely missed.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Bruce Willie will never age into a period of bad sequels to his old movies like Stallone did, right?
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we're always appreciating funny ladies.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we've been crushing on hot zombies since before it was cool. (Hi, again, hot zombie from last Halloween.)
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we never miss an opportunity to make a lazy Zoolander reference. (Still waiting on that sequel, Ben Stiller!)
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're always telling to people to welcome more feral children into their homes.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're talking about curious casting, the Olympics, and movies about aspiring marble champions.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where this should be known as the week before everyone sees and opines endlessly about Zero Dark Thirty.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're acknowledging that we have failed to stop Peter Jackson from taking over the world.
Because nothing says Christmas more than tuberculosis, revolution, and singing, the movie musical Les Misérables took the Christmas Day box office with a surprisingly high Tuesday total.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where the semantics of Jack Reacher's height will be debated with much fervor.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're so happy Peter Jackson's plot was foiled by you meddling kids. Thank the skies for meddling kids.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're watching dreck like Red Dawn until the prestige pictures get here.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where Brad Pitt is the star of our movies, our Chanel commercials, our television shows, and our dreams.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we always take a bowl full of stuffing into the theater with us. Why do you think that's crazy? You're crazy.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will forever support RPatz and KStew because we remember how heartbroken everyone was when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams broke up. No one should suffer that kind of heartbreak, not even teenagers on Tumblr.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will fight anyone who says Timothy Dalton is the best James Bond. Heretics aren't welcome here.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we don't understand what this newfangled video game movie is. What ever happened to the Super Mario Bros. movie?
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're that guy telling you to put your phone away while the movie is playing.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're busy binging on old horror movies and making out Michael Myers costume in preparation for Halloween.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where the movie about a bunch of Canadians was polite enough to let Liam Neeson stay in first place. Typical.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where 'Liam Neeson punching things' is always an easy way to sell a movie.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we would never advise sharing a room with the Wolfman. He doesn't flush or put the seat down.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where we think all ties should be settled in the original Eliminator from American Gladiators.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where we will watch any sequel if you make it bigger and dumber and put it in 3D.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where we keep asking, "Is The Master here yet? Is The Master here yet?" Answer: no, unfortunately. But other things are here!
Welcome back to the box office report where two new movies are finally pushing the last of the summer's dreck off our radar.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're shocked -- shocked! -- that no one wanted to see a movie about a bike messenger.
Welcome to another Box Office Report where we're wondering if Sylvester Stallone uses his senior's discount when he takes his kids to see The Expendables 2.
Welcome to The Box Office Report, where you all know my name but I don't know yours, and we're all still trying to figure out how the new Bourne movie works.
It's impossible to dethrone the World's Greatest Detective. The Dark Knight Rises sticks around the top of the pile for another week, while Colin Farrell is as disappointing as ever onscreen and on paper in the new Total Recall remake.
After a break last weekend, we're back to the regularly scheduled Box Office Report programming. We're going to use the power of dance to help get you through this.
There was a minute where we thought that maybe, just maybe, Hollywood would actually silence itself as some sort of gesture to the victimes of the Aurora shooting. How naive we were.
Once again, another wacky cast of animals voiced by bored famous people sequel steals money from American families. Welcome to the most cynical Box Office report yet.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where we are welcoming our new, sticky box office overlord.
This weekend was the first weekend in history that two R-rated films grossed more than $20 million on the same weekend. One starred a male stripper and the other starred a stoned stuffed animal.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where our favorite red head's weapon of choice is the slate.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where doing karaoke with Tom Cruise in the 1980s sounds like a great story to hear from Dustin Hoffman at 4 a.m.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where there's something to be said for getting paid millions and millions of dollars for three hours worth of voice work.
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