Welcome to the Box Office Report, where James Franco opens at number one in our heart every week.
Today in show business news: Everyone is leaving The View, an Oz sequel is already in the works, a long-lost horror film finally gets its day in the sun, and a little Louis C.K. for the weekend.
Disney's mega-expensive 3D epic is on track to be a big hit this weekend. And while that's certainly good news for the movie business, it might not be so great for actual movies. How long until any semblance of the real is gone?
Critics might not think Oz the Great and Powerful is, well, all that great or powerful, but the movie is selling so many tickets for its opening weekend, that Disney, seeing green, is already making plans for a sequel.
Oz the Great and Powerful asks us to believe the Wizard's new origin story, doing battle with two evil witches and a good one. But where have these characters been already? We looked at five Oz mythologies to bring their diverging stories together.
His media tour for this weekend's Oz the Great and Powerful has combined with Spring Breakers and the general impossibility of James Fanco so that no one can decide, once again, which James Franco this. Allow us to attempt to clarify.
When I say that Oz the Great and Powerful is all downhill from the opening credits, don't take that to be too harsh a criticism.
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